County OKs Sheriff's Department continued use of military equipment [Breaking]
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors gave the Sheriff’s Department the green light Tuesday to continue to use military equipment, including beanbag shotguns, armored vehicles and drones.
In accordance with the law, the Sheriff’s Department drafted a military-equipment-use policy, which outlines its inventory, the purpose of each piece of equipment, associated costs and and other information. The department’s inventory includes less-lethal weapons and ammunition, flash bangs, tear gas, and tactical robots.
During a presentation to the Board of Supervisors, sheriff’s Lt. Chris Steffen recounted a incident at a Spring Valley home where a man threatened his mother with a machete and threatened to shoot deputies. During the incident, deputies on the SWAT team tried to communicate with the man using an armored vehicle’s public address system, Steffen said. The man was unresponsive, so deputies sent in a robot, then a drone, to look inside the home.
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