Wannabe cops. This was more geared to be a demonstration to the local public over what they could do. Fairly comical for their leadership...trying to explain to the city council and just about everyone else why this all made perfect sense in the end. These are probably one of the crews to get the MRAPs when they finally get delivered.
Yep. “Look what we can do!” A foretaste of things to come. There’s ample opportunity and a surplus of training areas available to these departments, where they can conduct “hostage rescue exercises” to their heart’s content without disturbing the local gentry.