About the Bergen County Sheriff’s
Office The Bergen County Sheriff’s Office has
six organizational units: Court Security, Homeland Unit, K9 Unit, Sheriff’s Operation, Prisoner Transportation and Special
Operations Group. According to the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, the Special Operations Group “serves
as the Sheriff's high-risk operations team, which is responsible for all high-risk preplanned operations requiring heavy weapons
and threat assessments. Unit members may be activated to conduct high-risk prisoner transports, warrant services or to neutralize
an active shooter at the Justice Complex or other location. All members of the Special Operations Group are professionally
trained and have attended either the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s S.W.A.T. School or the National Tactical Officers
Association S.W.A.T. School.”
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