Cities eye teaming up to buy armored SWAT vehicle - WJER Radio 100.9FM & 1450AM

Cities eye teaming up to buy armored SWAT vehicle - WJER Radio 100.9FM & 1450AM

NEW PHILADELPHIA – Dover and New Philadelphia officials want the cities to split the cost of a new $400,000 armored vehicle. New Philadelphia Safety Director Kevin Milligan says the combined Dover-New Philadelphia SWAT team is increasingly finding itself in dangerous situations, with nine officer-involved shootings in the county since 2019 and SWAT team calls up about 20 percent over that same time. He says the lack of an armored vehicle is a gl…