SCCSAB Events - Best in the West

 

Best of the West Annual SWAT Competition

September 17 and 18, 2009

Best in the West, created and hosted by the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, is the largest invitational S.W.A.T. competition in the Western United States. Begun under the auspices of then-Sheriff Charles Gillingham, and continuing today under the leadership of Sheriff Laurie Smith, this event is now in its 18th year. Each year, members of the departments Sheriff's Emergency Response Team design, physically construct, and run an intensive two-day, 7-course competition, pitting S.W.A.T. teams from all over the West against each other, in a multi-jurisdictional learning experience unequalled in this part of the country. Numerous yearly variations and twists designed to keep any returning teams from becoming complacent keep all teams challenged to the utmost.