Barricade subject Ellicott City

blee1099 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-07-2009, 03:01 AM

4800 block of Ellicott Woods Lane.
Police Operations on Alpha 1
Tactical & Negotators on location
Road closure at Ellicott Woods Lane and Worthington Way or around that area.

fd2119 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-07-2009, 09:29 AM

HCPD Tac (SWAT) made entry and apprehended the subject without further incident. Shortly after being taken into custody, he seemed to suffer a seizure. HCPD deployed the tactical medic, as well as a medic unit staging nearby. The pt was transported as a pri 2 to Howard Co General. Several children were also evaluated on the scene; I don't believe any were transported.

So HCPD was using A, C and D zones for this incident (presumably in addition to the encrypted talkgroups, such as tac, CIB, etc)?

blee1099 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-07-2009, 02:54 PM

They were on Delta-1 (the Tactical team, inner perimeter, etc). i think the ouyer perimeter was on a-1. adam & baker patrol not involved were on c-1. I heard them doing entry & stuff over the scanner.. Suprisingly nothing was encrypted on that channel. I suspect the guy had depression issues, I overheard them calling out medications the guy was on..

fd2119 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 02:27 PM

Yes, he did seem to have a number of medications.

I was somewhat surprised that there wasn't an incident command system (ICS); I heard one unit identify as Command only once. Every other time it was Unit 500. Further, I wonder what the point of having encrypted talkgroups is, if they're not going to be used (in all fairness, though, I don't use any programs to monitor affiliations, so they could have been in use).