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I PARTIES <br />II AUTHORITY <br />IV FORMATION <br />VSRT 03 -20 -2007 <br />INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT <br />INTERLOCAL COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT BETWEEN AUBURN, DES <br />MOINES, FEDERAL WAY, KENT, RENTON, TUKWILA, AND THE PORT <br />OF SEATTLE, FOR CREATION OF THE <br />VALLEY SPECIAL RESPONSE TEAM <br />AC7 6 7- 77 <br />The parties to this Agreement are the Port of Seattle and the municipalities of Auburn, <br />Des Moines, Federal Way, Kent, Renton, and Tukwila, each of which is a municipal <br />corporation operating under the laws of the State of Washington <br />This Agreement is entered into pursuant to Chapters 10 93, 39 34, and 53 08 of the <br />Revised Code of Washington <br />III PURPOSE <br />The parties hereto desire to establish and maintain a multi jurisdictional team to <br />effectively respond to high risk criminal occurrences as described below <br />There is hereby created a multi jurisdictional team to be hereafter known as the "Valley <br />Special Response Team" "SRT the members of which shall be the Port of Seattle, <br />and the cities of Auburn, Des Moines, Federal Way, Kent, Renton, and Tukwila The <br />SRT has been in existence for some time, and this Agreement is being re- entered into <br />in order to admit the City of Des Moines as an SRT member The future admission or <br />elimination of a jurisdiction as a member of the SRT may be accomplished by an <br />addendum to this agreement <br />V STATEMENT OF PROBLEM <br />King County and the municipalities within the Puget Sound area have experienced <br />increasingly violent criminal confrontations due to, among other reasons, increased <br />gang activity; increased drug abuse, distribution, and manufacturing, increased <br />urbanization, and increased population densities The ability to safely control, contain, <br />and resolve high risk criminal incidents such as civil disobedience, barricaded subjects, <br />hostage situations, gang member arrests, high risk felony arrests, and narcotic or high <br />risk search warrants has strained the resources of the members' individual police <br />departments <br />Law enforcement efforts directed at dealing with these high risk criminal incidents have, <br />for the most part, been conducted by law enforcement agencies working independently <br />A multi jurisdictional effort to handle specific high risk criminal incidents, as well as <br />