The Best in the West competition was created and is hosted by the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office year.
It’s the largest invitational SWAT competition in the western United States. This year’s competition was the 20th rendition. The Sheriff’s Emergency Response Team is responsible for the design and physically constructing and running the intensive two-day, seven event competition that pits SWAT teams from all over the U.S. against each other.
Here are the overall team standings from 2012 below. You can view the standings for each competition by downloading the PDFs at left: physical challenge, team assault, vehicle assault, jungle trail, sniper, top gun and two-man combat.
| 1 | Las Vegas Metro PD |
| 2 | San Ramon PD |
| 3 | Pasadena PD |
| 4 | Campbell PD |
| 5. | Concord PD |
| 6 | Alameda County SO |
| 7 | Sunnyvale DPS |
| 7 | Sacramento County SO |
| 8 | Contra Costa County SO |
| 8 | Sonoma County SO |
| 9 | San Mateo PD |
| 10 | San Jose PD |
| 11 | San Mateo County SO |
| 12 | Amador County SO |
| 13 | Folsom PD |
| 14 | Fremont PD |
| 14 | San Francisco PD |
| 15 | San Francisco County PD |
| 16 | Milpitas PD |
| 17 | Placer County SO |
| 18 | Gilroy PD/Morgan Hill PD |
| 19 | Salinas Valley State Prison HRT |
| 20 | East Bay Regional Parks PD |
| 21 | Santa Cruz PD |
| 22 | Hayward PD |
| 23 | Salinas PD |
| 24 | Redwood City PD |
| 25 | Solano County SO |
| 26 | Alameda PD |
