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police tactical unit A police tactical unit (PTU) is a specialized police unit trained to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement units because of the level of violence (or risk of violence) involved. A police tactical unit's tas ...

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Police tactical unit A police tactical unit (PTU) is a specialized police unit trained to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement units because of the level of violence (or risk of violence) involved. A police tactical unit's tas ...

s are specialized units of a police force tasked with resolving high risk / critical incidents, including: * high risk armed offender / suspect searches / apprehensions including

arrest warrant An arrest warrant is a warrant issued by a judge or magistrate on behalf of the state, which authorizes the arrest and detention of an individual, or the search and seizure of an individual's property. Canada Arrest warrants are issued by a ...

s * high risk

search warrant A search warrant is a court order that a magistrate or judge issues to authorize law enforcement officers to conduct a search of a person, location, or vehicle for evidence of a crime and to confiscate any evidence they find. In most countries, ...

s involving an armed / dangerous offender / suspect * siege / barricade incidents involving an armed offender / suspect * domestic

counter-terrorism Counterterrorism (also spelled counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, incorporates the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, business, and intelligence agencies use to combat or ...

incidents such as

hostage rescue A hostage is a person seized by an abductor in order to compel another party, one which places a high value on the liberty, well-being and safety of the person seized, such as a relative, employer, law enforcement or government to act, or refr ...

and / or armed intervention (including units that may be granted authority for overseas operations) In the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...

, police tactical units are known by the generic term

Special Weapons And Tactics In the United States, a SWAT team (special weapons and tactics, originally special weapons assault team) is a police tactical unit that uses specialized or military equipment and tactics. Although they were first created in the 1960s to ...

(SWAT) team (other countries have adopted this term). In

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...

, the term police tactical group is used for police tactical units. The

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are located primarily in Europe, Europe. The union has a total area of ...

uses the term special intervention unit for national counter terrorist police tactical units. For military special forces / special operations forces, see

list of military special forces units This is a list of military special forces units, also known as special operations forces (SOF), currently active with countries around the world, that are specially organised, trained and equipped to conduct special operations. These are dist ...

Afghanistan

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Interior Ministry An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that is responsible for internal affairs. Lists of current ministries of internal affairs Named "ministry" * Ministr ...

* Afghan National Civil Order Police Special Support Battalion * General Command of Police Special Units (GCPSU) ( prs, قوماندانی عمومی قطعات خاص) ** Crisis Response Unit 222 (CRU 222) ** Commando Force 333 (CF 333) ** Afghan Territorial Force 444 (ATF 444)

Albania

RENEA The Department of Neutralization of Armed Elements () commonly known by its acronym RENEA, is the main Albanian counter-terrorist and critical incident response unit. The force was constituted in the early 1990s in response to the growing crime le ...

* ''Shqiponjat'' * FNSH

Algeria

; Sûreté Nationale *

Police Special Operations Group The Police Special Operations Group (french: Groupement des Opérations Spéciales de la Police, GOSP; ar, مجموعة العمليات الخاصة للشرطة) is a police tactical unit of the Algerian Police. It was created the July 22, 201 ...

(french: Groupement des Opérations Spéciales de la Police, GOSP) *

Research and Intervention Brigade A Research and Intervention Brigade (french: Brigade de recherche et d'intervention (BRI) (), Investigation and Intervention Brigade or Anti-Gang Brigade) is a unit of the French National Police. The first units were formed in 1964 and carried ...

(BRI) ;

Gendarmerie Nationale Gendarmerie Nationale most commonly refers to: * Gendarmerie Nationale (France) * Gendarmerie Nationale (Belgium), merged with Belgian police in 2001 Gendarmerie Nationale may also refer to: *Gendarmerie Nationale (Algeria) * Gendarmerie National ...

Special Intervention Detachment The Special Intervention Detachment (french: Détachement Spécial d'Intervention, DSI, ar, المفرزة الخاصة للتدخل) is a police tactical unit of the Algerian Gendarmerie Nationale. It specializes in the fight against terroris ...

(DSI)

Argentina

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Argentine Federal Police The Argentine Federal Police ( es, Policía Federal Argentina or PFA) is the national civil police force of the Argentine federal government. The PFA has detachments throughout the country. Until January 1, 2017, it also acted as the local la ...

* Federal Special Operations Group (GEOF) * ''

Grupo Especial Uno The 1er Batallón de Combate-Grupo Especial Uno (''1st Combat Battalion-Special Group One'', GE-1) is a tactical assault division of the Argentine Federal Police. It depends directly of the Infantry Guard Corps, and its motto is ''Nihil Obstat ...

'' "GE-1" (Special Group One) ;

Argentine National Gendarmerie The Argentine National Gendarmerie ( es, Gendarmería Nacional Argentina, GNA) is the national gendarmerie force and corps of border guards of the Argentine Republic. It has a strength of 70,000. The gendarmerie is primarily a frontier guard forc ...

*''Equipo Antiterrorista'' (Anti-Terrorist Team) * Scorpion Group - Formerly the ''Escuadrón Especial de la Gendarmería Nacional'' *''Sección Operaciones Especiales de Monte de Gendarmería Nacional "Groupe Monte"'' ('National Gendarmarie Jungle Special Operations Section') *''Unidad Especial de Lucha Contra Narcotraficante'' (UELCON) ; Local and other units * Hawk Special Operations Brigade (BEOH) - Buenos Aires Provincial Police * Special Operations Troops Company (TOE) - Santa Fe Provincial Police *''Equipo Táctico Especial Recomendado'' (E.T.E.R.) - Córdoba Provincial Police * Albatross Group - Argentine Naval Prefecture **''Grupo de Respuesta Imediata de Alto Riesgo'' (GRIAR; 'Immediate High Risk Response Group') - Argentine Naval Prefecture

Armenia

; National Security Service *

Alpha Group Spetsgruppa "A", also known as Alpha Group (a popular English name), or Alfa, whose official name is Directorate "A" of the FSB Special Purpose Center (TsSN FSB) (Russian: Спецназ ФСБ "Альфа"), is an elite stand-alone sub-unit o ...

;

Police of Armenia The Police of the Republic of Armenia () is the national police of Armenia. The acting head is Vahe Ghazaryan, in office since 8 June 2020. History Soviet era The first police service of Armenia was formed in 1918, under the Ministry of Intern ...

* Police tactical unit

Australia

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Australian Federal Police The Australian Federal Police (AFP) is the national and principal federal law enforcement agency of the Australian Government with the unique role of investigating crime and protecting the national security of the Commonwealth of Australia. ...

* Specialist Response Group (SRG) ;

New South Wales Police Force The New South Wales Police Force (NSW Police Force; previously the New South Wales Police Service and New South Wales Police) is the primary law enforcement agency of the state of New South Wales, Australia. Divided into Police Area Commands (P ...

* Tactical Operations Unit (TOU) * Tactical Operations Regional Support (TORS) ;

Northern Territory Police The Northern Territory Police Force is the police body that has legal jurisdiction over the Northern Territory of Australia. This police service has 1,537 police members (as at 31 July 2019) made up of 79 senior sergeants, 228 sergeants, 839 con ...

* Territory Response Group (TRG) ;

Queensland Police The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is the principal law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland. In 1990, the Queensland Police Force was officially renamed the Queensland Police Service and the old motto ...

Special Emergency Response Team The Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) () was an elite police tactical unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The SERT was formed in 1986 to provide a tactical capability to respond to major terrorist incidents throughout Canada. ...

(SERT) ;

South Australia Police South Australia Police (SAPOL) is the police force of the Australian States and territories of Australia, state of South Australia. SAPOL is an independent statutory agency of the Government of South Australia directed by the Commissioner of Po ...

* Special Tasks and Rescue Group (STAR) ;

Tasmania Police Tasmania Police is the primary law enforcement agency of the Australian state of Tasmania. Established in 1899, the force has more than 1,300 officers policing Tasmania's population of over half a million people. History Colonial history Prior ...

* Special Operations Group (SOG) ;

Victoria Police Victoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of the Australian state of Victoria. It was formed in 1853 and currently operates under the ''Victoria Police Act 2013''. , Victoria Police had over 22,300 staff, comprising over 16,700 ...

* Special Operations Group (SOG) * Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) ;

Western Australia Police The Western Australia Police Force, colloquially WAPOL, provides police services throughout the state of Western Australia, an area of 2.5 million square kilometres, the world's largest non-federated area of jurisdiction, with a population ...

* Tactical Response Group (TRG) ; New South Wales Corrective Services * Security Operations Group (SOG) ; Western Australia Department of Corrective Services * Special Operations Group (SOG)

Austria

; Federal Ministry of the Interior *

EKO Cobra EKO Cobra (german: Einsatzkommando Cobra; "Task Force Cobra") is the police tactical unit of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior. EKO Cobra is not part of the Austrian Federal Police, but instead is directly under the control of the ...

- Special operations and counterterrorism unit ;

Federal Police A law enforcement agency (LEA) is any government agency responsible for the enforcement of the laws. Jurisdiction LEAs which have their ability to apply their powers restricted in some way are said to operate within a jurisdiction. LEAs ...

WEGA WEGA is a German audio and video manufacturer, manufacturing some of Germany's earliest radio receivers. History WEGA, pronounced "Vega", was founded as ''Wuerttembergische Radio-Gesellschaft mbh'' in Stuttgart, Germany in the year 1923. In 1975 ...

- SWAT team ;

Justizwache The Justizwache ( en, Judicial Guard, literally ''Justice Watch'') is the prison guards corps of Austria. The corps is a department of the Ministry of Justice. Their tasks are the safeguarding of penitentiaries, the safeguarding of inmates, and th ...

(Penitentiary police) *

Justizwache Einsatzgruppe The Justizwache ( en, Judicial Guard, literally ''Justice Watch'') is the prison guards corps of Austria. The corps is a department of the Ministry of Justice. Their tasks are the safeguarding of penitentiaries, the safeguarding of inmates, and th ...

(JEG) - Penitentiary police SWAT team

Azerbaijan

;

Ministry of Internal Affairs An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that is responsible for internal affairs. Lists of current ministries of internal affairs Named "ministry" * Ministry ...

* OPON * Rapid Police Unit

Bahamas

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Royal Bahamas Police Force The Royal Bahamas Police Force is the national law enforcement agency of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. It operates within the portfolio of the Ministry of National Security. The police force was established on 1 March 1840 and is headquartered ...

* Security and Intelligence Branch

Bangladesh

* Rapid Action Battalion *

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime - CTTC is a specialized branch of Bangladesh Police formed to tackle terrorism and transnational crime. Deputy Inspector General Md. Asaduzzaman bpm (bar) is the chief of the branch. History Bangladesh P ...

* Dhaka Metropolitan Police SWAT *

Crisis Response Team A crisis ( : crises; : critical) is either any event or period that will (or might) lead to an unstable and dangerous situation affecting an individual, group, or all of society. Crises are negative changes in the human or environmental affair ...

* Quick Response Team * Anti Terrorism Unit

Belarus

;

Militsiya ''Militsiya'' ( rus, милиция, , mʲɪˈlʲitsɨjə) was the name of the police forces in the Soviet Union (until 1991) and in several Eastern Bloc countries (1945–1992), as well as in the non-aligned SFR Yugoslavia (1945–1992). The ...

* Almaz Special Anti-Terrorism Unit (SPBT Almaz) * OMON (AMAP) Special Purpose Police Unit

Belgium

;

Federal police A law enforcement agency (LEA) is any government agency responsible for the enforcement of the laws. Jurisdiction LEAs which have their ability to apply their powers restricted in some way are said to operate within a jurisdiction. LEAs ...

* ''Directie van de speciale eenheden/Direction des unités spéciales'' (DSU; 'Directorate of the Special Units')

Bolivia

;Bolivian Police Force *''Unidad Tactica de Operaciones Policiales'' (UTOP) - Tactical Response Unit *''Fuerza especial de lucha contra el narcotráfico'' (FELCN) - Bolivian anti-narcotics force *''Fuerza especial de lucha contra el crimen'' (FELCC) - Bolivian anti-criminal force

Bosnia and Herzegovina

;Bosnian Police Force * State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) ** Special Support Unit * Bosnian Special Police Units ** Special Police Unit ;Other units * MUP FBiH Federal Counter-terrorism branches - Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Police * MUP RS Counter-terrorism branches - '' Republika Srpska Police''

Bulgaria

Ministry of Interior An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a government department that is responsible for internal affairs. Lists of current ministries of internal affairs Named "ministry" * Ministry ...

* SOBT ;

Bulgarian Gendarmerie The Bulgarian Gendarmerie' (Жандармерия – ''Zhandarmeriya'') is part of the Bulgarian Ministry of Internal Affairs or "MIA". (Bulgarian: ''"Министерство на вътрешните работи"'' or "МВР", pronounced '' ...

* Counter-Terrorist Squads

Brazil

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Federal Police Department The Federal Police of Brazil ( Portuguese: ''Polícia Federal'') is a federal law enforcement agency of Brazil and one of the three national police forces. The other two are the Federal Highway Police, and the National Force. From 1944 to 1967 ...

*''

Comando de Operações Táticas The Comando de Operações Táticas (Portuguese for ''Command Of Tactical Operations''), mostly known by its acronym COT, is the tactical unit of the Federal Police of Brazil. It was created after Brazilian parliament recommendations, in an att ...

'' (COT) - is a specialized counter terrorism unit with headquarters in

Brasília Brasília (; ) is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located at the top of the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West region. It was founded by President Juscelino Kubitsche ...

*'' Grupos de Pronta Intervenção'' (GPI) - are SWAT like tactical units that supports local operations. Each state has its own G.P.I. unit ; ''Polícia Militar'' *BOE/BOPE (''Batalhão de Operações Especiais'') units: **

Special Operations Battalion The Special Operations Battalion ( hr, Bojna za specijalna djelovanja), or popularly BSD was founded on 8 September 2000 when the Special Combat Skills Center from Šepurine and the 1st Croatian Guards Brigade ( hr, 1. hrvatski gardijski zdrug, a ...

(PMAC) - in

Acre The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, of a square mile, 4,840 square ...

(PMDF) - in the

Federal District A federal district is a type of administrative division of a federation, usually under the direct control of a federal government and organized sometimes with a single municipal body. Federal districts often include capital districts, and they ...

** Specials Battalion Operations (PMMT) - in the state of

Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP. Neighboring ...

(PMPR) - the state of Paraná **

(PMPI) - the state of

Piauí Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP. Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66& ...

** Special Police Operations Battalion (PMAL) - the state of

Alagoas Alagoas (, ) is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil and is situated in the eastern part of the Northeast Region. It borders: Pernambuco (N and NW); Sergipe (S); Bahia (SW); and the Atlantic Ocean (E). Its capital is the city of Maceió. ...

** Special Police Operations Battalion (PMRR) - in the state of

Roraima Roraima (, ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil. Located in the country's North Region, it is the northernmost and most geographically and logistically isolated state in Brazil. It is bordered by the state of Pará to the southeast, Amazonas ...

** Special Police Operations Battalion (PMSC) - the state of Santa Catarina ** Special Police Operations Battalion (PMERJ) - in the state of

Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo. Listed by the GaWC as a b ...

** Special Police Operations Battalion (PMRN) - in

Rio Grande do Norte Rio Grande do Norte (, , ) is one of the states of Brazil. It is located in the northeastern region of the country, forming the northeasternmost tip of the South American continent. The name literally translates as "Great Northern River", re ...

state ** Special Police Operations Battalion (PMBA) - the state of

Bahia Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-larges ...

** Special Police Operations Battalion (PMRS) - in

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a state in the southern region of Brazil. It is the fifth-most-populous state and the ninth largest by area. Located in the southernmost part of the country, Rio Grande do Sul is border ...

state ** Special Police Operations Battalion (PMAP) - in

Amapá Amapá () is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is in the northern region of Brazil. It is the second least populous state and the eighteenth largest by area. Located in the far northern part of the country, Amapá is bordered clockwise by Fr ...

state ** Special Police Operations Battalion (PMMG) - is a GATE type unit of the Military Police of Minas Gerais State * Special Actions and Tactics Group (GATE) - is a police tactical unit within

Military Police of São Paulo State The Polícia Militar do Estado de São Paulo (''São Paulo State Military Police'') is a law enforcement agency (Military Police (Brazil)) of the military kind in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is the largest state police force in the count ...

; ''Policia Civil'' *'' Grupo Tático 3'' (GT3) - in the state of

Goiás Goiás () is a Brazilian state located in the Center-West region. Goiás borders the Federal District and the states of (from north clockwise) Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. The state capital is Goiâ ...

*'' Grupo Especial de Reação'' (GER) - is tactical unit similar to GOE operating in the state of

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaW ...

* ''Grupo de Operações Especiais'' (GOE) - is the elite arm of the Civil Police of the state of

*'' Centro de Operações Policiais Especiais'' (COPE) - is a specialized division within the civil police of Paraná state *'' Tático Integrado de Grupos de Repressão Especial'' (TIGRE) - is a SWAT type tactical unit that specializes in hostage rescue operations in the state of Paraná *'' Coordenadoria de Recursos Especiais'' (CORE) - is a paramilitary police unit within the

Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State (''Polícia Civil do Estado do Rio de Janeiro'', in Portuguese) is the police force responsible for criminal investigations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Formed in 1808, it is subordinated to the state gover ...

*'' Divisão de Operações especiais'' (DOE) - is a special tactics unit based in

* ''Grupo de Operações Especiais'' (GOE) - is the GOE unit of the state of

Pernambuco Pernambuco () is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,148 km², being the ...

Brunei

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Royal Brunei Police Force The Royal Brunei Police Force, RBPF ( ms, Polis Diraja Brunei (PDB) is in charge of keeping law and order in Brunei. The RBPF has been one of the 190 members of INTERPOL, an intergovernmental organisation worldwide since 1984. With a force of ...

* Special Operations Squad (SOS; ms, Pasukan Gerak Khas — PGK)

Canada

;Federal units *

Royal Canadian Mounted Police The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP; french: Gendarmerie royale du Canada; french: GRC, label=none), commonly known in English as the Mounties (and colloquially in French as ) is the federal and national police service of Canada. As poli ...

(RCMP; ) ** Emergency Response Team (ERT; ) * Parliamentary Protective Service (PPS; ) - Mobile Response Team *

Correctional Service of Canada The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC; french: Service correctionnel du Canada), also known as Correctional Service Canada or Corrections Canada, is the Canadian federal government agency responsible for the incarceration and rehabilitation of ...

(CSC; ) ** Institutional Emergency Response Team (IERT) ** Institutional Crisis Intervention Team (ICIT) ;Provincial and Municipal units * Abbotsford Police Department - Emergency Response Team *

Barrie Police Service The Barrie Police Service (BPS) is the police service of the city of Barrie, Ontario, Canada. It is made up of 218 police personnel and 94 civilians that serve a population of 135,711, as of 2011, in an area covering . The chief of police is the ...

- Tactical Support Unit (TSU) *Bathurst Police Force - Emergency Response Team (ERT) * Brandon Police Service - Tactical Response Unit (TRU) * Brantford Police Service - Emergency Response Team (ERT) *

Brockville Police Service The Brockville Police Service provides policing services for Brockville, the community of the Thousand Islands region on the St. Lawrence River in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Known as the "City of the 1000 Islands", Brockville (population 21,854 in 2 ...

- Emergency Response Team (ERT) * Calgary Police Service - Tactical Unit *Cape Breton Regional Police Service - Emergency Response Team (ERT) *''Service de police de la MRC des Collines-de-l'Outaouais'' - ''Unité spéciale d’intervention'' *Cornwall Police Service - Cornwall Emergency Response Team (CERT) *

Durham Regional Police Service The Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) is the police service operated by and serving the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. The force serves the following local municipalities, with a combined population of 706,200. * Pickering ...

- Tactical Support Unit *

Edmonton Police Service The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) is the municipal police force for the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific O ...

- Tactical Unit *Estevan Police Service - Containment / Warrant Entry Team (CWET) * ''Service de police de la Ville de Gatineau'' - ''Groupe d’intervention'' *

Greater Sudbury Police Service The Greater Sudbury Police Service is the police force for the municipality of Greater Sudbury, Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but ...

- Tactical Unit *

Guelph Police Service The Guelph Police Service (GPS) is the police force for the city of Guelph, Ontario. The GPS was formed in 1827 with the founding of the city. The Guelph Police Service is the 14th largest municipal police service in Ontario with 323 members an ...

- Tactics and Rescue Unit *

Halifax Regional Police The Halifax Regional Police (HRP) is one of a number of law enforcement agencies operating in the Halifax, Nova Scotia; the other primaries being the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Forces Military Police. The city also is home to a ...

- Emergency Response Team (ERT) * Halton Regional Police Service - Tactical Rescue Unit (TRU) *

Kingston Police The Kingston Police is the municipal police force for the city of Kingston, Ontario. It was established by the Common Council of Kingston on December 20, 1841, to control the lawlessness happening in the Province of Canada The Provinc ...

- Emergency Response Unit *'' Service de police de la Ville de Laval'' - ''Groupe d’intervention'' *

London Police Service The London Police Service (LPS), or simply ''London Police'', is the municipal law enforcement agency in London, Ontario, Canada. The LPS does not enforce federal statutes including the '' Criminal Code'', provincial offences such as the ''High ...

- Emergency Response Unit (ERU) *'' Service de police de l'agglomération de Longueuil'' - ''Groupe d’intervention'' *Miramichi Police Force - Tactical High Risk Entry and Arrest Team (THREAT) * ''

Service de Police de la Ville de Montreal Service may refer to: Activities * Administrative service, a required part of the workload of university faculty * Civil service, the body of employees of a government * Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community or a p ...

'' - ''Groupe Tactique d’intervention'' *

Niagara Regional Police Service The Niagara Regional Police Service (NRPS) provides policing services for the Regional Municipality of Niagara in the Canadian province of Ontario. The NRPS was established on January 1, 1971, and is the oldest regional police service in Ontario ...

- Emergency Task Unit (ETU) *

Ontario Provincial Police The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is the provincial police service of Ontario, Canada. Under its provincial mandate, the OPP patrols provincial highways and waterways, protects provincial government buildings and officials, patrols unincorp ...

** Tactics and Rescue Unit (TRU) ** Emergency Response Team (ERT) *

Ottawa Police Service The Ottawa Police Service (OPS; French: ''Service de police d'Ottawa'') is a municipal police force in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The OPS serves an area of 2,790 square kilometres and 1,017,449 (2021 census) people alongside several other police ...

- Tactical Unit *

Peel Regional Police The Peel Regional Police (PRP) provide policing services for Peel Region (excluding Caledon) in Ontario, Canada. It is the second largest municipal police service in Ontario after the Toronto Police Service and third largest municipal force in ...

- Tactical and Rescue Unit *''

Service de police de la Ville de Québec The Service de police de la Ville de Québec ( French for ''Quebec City Police Service'') is the municipal police force of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, and the neighbouring municipalities in the urban agglomeration of Quebec City. History Quebec ...

'' - ''Groupe Tactique d'intervention'' *

Regina Police Service Regina (Latin for "queen") may refer to: Places Canada * Regina, Saskatchewan, the capital city of the province ** Regina (electoral district) ** Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina France * Régina, French Guiana, a commune United States * ...

- Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team *

Royal Newfoundland Constabulary The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) is the provincial police service for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary is one of three provincial police forces in Canada, alongside the Ontario Provincial ...

- Tactics and Rescue Unit (TRU) *

Saskatoon Police Service Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) is the municipal police service in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It holds both municipal and provincial jurisdiction. Police Chief Troy Cooper is the head of the service. The deputy chiefs are Deputy Chief Rand ...

- Tactical Support Unit (TSU) *Saint John Police Force & Kennebecasis Regional Police Force - Emergency Tactical Services (ETS) *

South Simcoe Police Service South Simcoe Police Service is a municipal police force in Ontario, Canada, providing service to the municipalities of Innisfil and Bradford West Gwillimbury. It came into existence on January 1, 1997, through the amalgamation of the Innisfil ...

- Containment Team/Emergency Response Unit (ERU) *Stratford Police Services - Emergency Response Unit (ERU) * ''

Sûreté du Québec The (SQ; , ) is the provincial police service for the Canadian province of Quebec. No official English name exists, but the agency's name is sometimes translated to 'Quebec Provincial Police' or QPP in English-language sources. The headquarters ...

'' - ''Groupe d'intervention tactique'' *

Thunder Bay Police Service Thunder is the sound caused by lightning. Depending upon the distance from and nature of the lightning, it can range from a long, low rumble to a sudden, loud crack. The sudden increase in temperature and hence pressure caused by the lightning pr ...

- Emergency Task Unit (ETU) *

Toronto Police Service The Toronto Police Service (TPS) is a municipal police force in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and the primary agency responsible for providing law enforcement and policing services in Toronto. Established in 1834, it was the first local police ser ...

Emergency Task Force The Emergency Task Force (ETF) is the tactical unit of the Toronto Police Service. Created in 1965, it is mandated to deal with high risk situations like hostage taking, emotionally disturbed persons, high risk arrests, warrant service, and protec ...

(ETF) *

Vancouver Police Department The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) (french: Service de police de Vancouver) is the police force for the City of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. It is one of several police departments within the Metro Vancouver Area and is the second ...

- Emergency Response Team (ERT) * Victoria Police Department & Saanich Police Department - Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team *

Waterloo Regional Police Service The Waterloo Regional Police Service (WRPS) provides policing services for the Regional Municipality of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, which encompasses the cities of Waterloo, Kitchener, and Cambridge, as well as the townships of North Dumfri ...

- Special Response Unit *

Windsor Police Service The Windsor Police Service is the municipal law enforcement agency in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It succeeded the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment. Since 2019, the Windsor Police Service has also provided contract policing services for the nearby ...

- Tactical Unit *

Winnipeg Police Service The Winnipeg Police Service is the police force of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. History When Winnipeg became a city, in 1873, an election was held to select the city's new mayor and aldermen. Those appointed decided to hire city o ...

- Tactical Support Team (TST) *Woodstock Police Service - Containment Team * York Regional Police - Emergency Response Unit (ERU) * Atlona Police Service, Morden Police Service & Winkler Police Service - Regional Support Tactical Team ;Other units *

Atomic Energy of Canada Limited Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) is a Canadian federal Crown corporation and Canada's largest nuclear science and technology laboratory. AECL developed the CANDU reactor technology starting in the 1950s, and in October 2011 licensed this ...

(AECL) - Nuclear Security Response Team *

Bruce Power Bruce Power Limited Partnership is a Canadian business partnership composed of several corporations. It exists (as of 2015) as a partnership between TC Energy (31.6%), BPC Generation Infrastructure Trust (61.4%), the Power Workers Union (4%) and ...

- Nuclear Response Team (NRT) * Canadian Nuclear Laboratories - Nuclear Response Force (NRF) * NB Power - Nuclear Response Team (NRT) *

Ontario Power Generation Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG) is a Crown corporation and "government business enterprise" that is responsible for approximately half of the electricity generation in the province of Ontario, Canada. It is wholly owned by the government ...

- Nuclear Security

Chile

Carabineros de Chile ( en, Carabiniers of Chile) are the Chilean national law enforcement police, who have jurisdiction over the entire national territory of the Republic of Chile. Created in 1927, their mission is to maintain order and enforce the laws of Chile. T ...

'' * ''Grupo de Operaciones Policiales Especiales'' (GOPE; 'Police Special Operations Group') Chilean Investigation Police (''Policía de Investigaciones de Chile'') *'' Equipo de Reacción Táctica Antinarcóticos'' (ERTA; 'Antinarcotics Tactical Response Team') '' Gendarmería de Chile'' (Prison Service) *'' Sección de Operaciones Tácticas'' (SOT; 'Tactical Operations Section')

China

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Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China The Ministry of Public Security () is a government ministry of the People's Republic of China responsible for public and political security. It oversees more than 1.9 million of the country's law enforcement officers and as such the vast ma ...

Beijing SWAT The Beijing Special Weapons and Tactics Unit (Abbr.: SWAT; ; also known as Beijing Special Police Force or simply 'Beijing SWAT' ) is a police tactical unit in the People's Republic of China that deals with incidents beyond the capabilities of nor ...

* Shanghai SWAT ;

People's Armed Police ) , abbreviation = PAP ("People's Armed Police") CAPF ("Chinese Armed Police Force"), formerly abbreviated''Wujing'' ( zh , s = 武警 , p = Wǔjǐng , l = Armed Police , labels = no ), or WJ as on vehicle license plates , patch ...

Snow Leopard Commando Unit The Snow Leopard Commando Unit (Simplified Chinese: 雪豹突击队), formerly known as the Snow Wolf Commando Unit (Abbreviation: SWCU; Simplified Chinese: 雪狼突击队), is a highly elite police tactical unit of the People's Republic of Chi ...

(SWCU) * Immediate Action Unit (IAU) *

Special Police Unit The Special Police Units (abbreviation: SPU; ) are the police tactical units of the Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) at the provincial and municipal levels. There is at least one of such unit in each Chinese province to offer their services ...

(SPU)

Colombia

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National Police of Colombia The National Police of Colombia (Spanish: ''Policía Nacional de Colombia'') is the national police force of the Republic of Colombia. Although the National Police is not part of the Military Forces of Colombia (Army, Navy, and Air Force), it ...

* LOBOS (Wolves) * (COPES) Comandos de Operaciones Especiales (Special Operations Commandos) * (JUNGLA) Jungle * (GOES) Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (Special operations group) (SWAT equivalent) * GAULA Units (Hostage rescue)

Croatia

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Special Police Special police usually describes a police force or unit within a police force whose duties and responsibilities are significantly different from other forces in the same country or from other police in the same force, although there is no consiste ...

Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit Anti-Terrorist Unit Lučko (Lučko ATU) ( hr, Antiteroristička jedinica Lučko; ATJ Lučko) is the police tactical unit of the Croatian Police stationed in Lučko near Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Initially distinguishing itself in the Croa ...

(ATJ Lučko) * Special Police Units (SJP Split "BATT", SJP Rijeka "AJKULA", SJP Osijek "ORAO") * Riot Police Units- EPZ (''Ekipa za Posebne Zadaće'') tactical platoon within Intervention/riot police

Cyprus

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Cyprus Police The Cyprus Police ( Greek: ), is the National Police Service of the Republic of Cyprus and is under the Ministry of Justice and Public Order since 1993. The duties and responsibilities of the Cyprus Police are set out in the amended Police La ...

Emergency Response Unit An Emergency Response Unit is a name for a law enforcement or other civil government entity that is trained and equipped to respond quickly to emergency situations. In some instances, such a designation is given to a Special Weapons and Tactics uni ...

(MMAD)

Czech Republic

; Police of the Czech Republic * ''

Útvar rychlého nasazení The Rapid Response Unit (URNA) ('' cs, Útvar rychlého nasazení'') is a special force of the Police of the Czech Republic ('' cs, Policie České republiky''). It is under command of the Ministry of the Interior. History In 1981, the Útvar ...

'' �RN/URNARapid Reaction Unit, national police CT unit *''Krajská zásahová jednotka'' - ZJ8 regional police intervention units ; '' Celní správa České republiky'' *''Skupina operativního nasazení'' - ON

Denmark

;'' Rigspolitiet'' * ''

Politiets Aktionsstyrke Politiets Aktionsstyrke (AKS, English: ''The Special Intervention Unit'') is the police tactical unit of the Danish National Police. It is meant to handle extraordinarily difficult or life-threatening criminal situations, such as terrorism, hosta ...

'' (Special Intervention Unit) ; ''Københavns Politi'' (Copenhagen Police Department) *'' Udrykningssektionen'' (First Response Unit)

Ecuador

* GOE - ''Grupo de Operaciones Especiales'' (Police) * GIR - ''Grupo de Intervención y Rescate'' (Police)

Egypt

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Egyptian National Police , ') , mottotranslated = Police of the people ( ar, شرطة الشعب, ') Counter-terrorism and hostage rescue Combat all types of crimes Maintaining public health Achieve the tranquility of the citizen , formedyear = 1878 ( years) , for ...

* Unit 333 (Special unit of the interior ministry)
Black Cobra
(Counter terrorism special unit)

Estonia

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Estonian Police The Estonian Police ( et, Eesti Politsei) was the law enforcement agency of Estonia. It was subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior. In 2010, the organization was superseded by the Police and Border Guard Board. History Formation and d ...

* K-Commando (Special unit of the Central Crime Police)

Fiji

* Police National Operations Support Unit

Finland

; Police of Finland * Police Rapid Response Unit ;

Finnish Border Guard The Finnish Border Guard (; ) is the agency responsible for enforcing the security of Finland's borders. It is a military organisation, subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior in administrative issues and to the President of Finland in issue ...

* Border Guard Special Intervention Unit

France

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National Police National Police may refer to the national police forces of several countries: *Afghanistan: Afghan National Police *Haiti: Haitian National Police *Colombia: National Police of Colombia *Cuba: Cuban National Police *East Timor: National Police of ...

* ''Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion'' (RAID). RAID is composed of a central unit based in Bièvres (near Paris) and 13 regional branches named ''Antennes du RAID''. The 13 Regional branches are located in metropolitan and overseas France and were formerly known as

GIPN National Police Intervention Groups (GIPN) (french: Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale) were tactical units of the French National Police based in large cities in metropolitan France and in French overseas territories. GIPN units ope ...

s. *'' Brigade anticommando'' (BRI-BAC). The

Paris Police Prefecture The police prefecture (french: préfecture de police) is the unit of the French Ministry of the Interior that provides police, emergency services, and various administrative services to the population of the city of Paris and the surrounding t ...

(PP) anti-terrorism task force. It is activated in emergency situations. BRI-BAC is primarily composed of personnel from the

''Brigade de recherche et d'intervention'' (BRI-PP) (from the Judiciary Police directorate) with reinforcements from other PP units. Although the official name of the unit when activated is ''Brigade anticommando'', it is often simply referred to by the press as BRI (which can be confusing as there are BRIs in each region of France). In an emergency situation, BRI-BAC and RAID can also form a task-force called FIPN (''Force d'intervention de la Police nationale''), under the command of the RAID commander. ;

Gendarmerie Wrong info! --> A gendarmerie () is a military force with law enforcement duties among the civilian population. The term ''gendarme'' () is derived from the medieval French expression ', which translates to " men-at-arms" (literally, ...

* ''Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale'' (GIGN; "National Gendarmerie Intervention Group"). GIGN is composed of a central unit based in Versailles-Satory, near Paris and 14 regional branches based in metropolitan and overseas France which are known as '' Antennes du GIGN'' (AGIGN). *''Pelotons spécialisé de protection de la Gendarmerie'' (PSPG). 20 units primarily dedicated to protecting the French civilian nuclear sites. Can be engaged as tactical units in a secondary role. ;Helicopter support for GIGN and RAID * '' Groupe interarmées d'hélicoptères'' (GIH). A joint army/air force helicopter unit belonging to COS (''Commandement des opérations spéciales'' : Special operations command). Its primary role is support of GIGN and RAID. ; Ministry of Justice * (Regional Intervention and Security Team). Unit under the command of the carceral administration, formed partially by the GIGN, to intervene inside prison in case of particular events (riots, mutiny, evasion, terrorism).

Ghana

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Ghana Police Service The Ghana Police Service (GPS) is the main law enforcement agency of Ghana. The service is under the control of the Ghanaian Ministry of the Interior, and employs over 30,000 officers across its 651 stations. Organisational structure The Ghana P ...

*National SWAT Unit

Georgia

State Security Service of Georgia *Counterterrorist Center *Special Operations Center

Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს შინაგან საქმეთა სამინისტრო), abbreviated MIA (''შსს''), is the highest state law enforcement agency of Geor ...

*Counter Intelligence Department *Special Emergency and Situations Management Center *Central Anti Crime Department *Regional Special Task Divisions Special State Protection Service (SSPS) *Tactical Response Group

Germany

;Federal * ''Bundespolizei'' (Federal Police) ** ''Grenzschutzgruppe 9 der Bundespolizei'' (GSG 9) - Special Operations and Counterterrorism unit ** ''Beweissicherungs- und Festnahmeeinheit'' (BFE) - Special Detention Unit of Federal Anti Riot Police ** ''Beweissicherungs- und Festnahmeeinheit plus'' (BFE+) - Special Counter-Terrorism Unit of Federal Anti Riot Police ** ''Polizeiliche Schutzaufgaben Ausland der Bundespolizei'' - Police protection unit of German Diplomatic Missions *'' Bundeskriminalamt'' (Federal Criminal/Investigation Police) ** ''Mobiles Einsatzkommando'' (MEK) - Tactical Unit, but also handles surveillance, observation and arrests ** ''Auslands- und Spezialeinsätze'' (ASE) - Close protection unit for high-threat environments *''

Zollkriminalamt The German Customs Investigation Bureau in Cologne (german: Zollkriminalamt, ZKA) and its investigation offices are federal agencies that fall under the German Finance Ministry. The ZKA coordinates customs investigations nationwide in particu ...

'' (Customs Investigation Bureau) **''

Zentrale Unterstützungsgruppe Zoll The ''Zentrale Unterstützungsgruppe Zoll'' (Central Customs Support Group, ZUZ) is the police tactical unit of the German Customs Service (''Bundeszollverwaltung'') and subordinate to the German Customs Investigation Bureau (''Zollkriminala ...

'' (ZUZ) ''-'' Customs Tactical Unit *''

Feldjäger The ''Feldjäger'' () are Germany's military police. The term ''Feldjäger'', literally meaning field huntsmen or field Jäger, has a long tradition and dates back to the mid-17th century. History The first modern ''Feldjäger'' ...

'' (Military Police) **''Zugriffskräfte'' ('Special Tactics and Apprehension Unit') ;State *''

Landespolizei ''Landespolizei'' (; ) is a term used to refer to the state police of any of the states of Germany. History The ''Landespolizei'' of today can trace its origins to the late 19th century, when Germany united into a single country in 18 ...

'' ''(State Police)'' **''

Spezialeinsatzkommando ''Spezialeinsatzkommando'' (SEK, "Special Task Force") are police tactical units of each of the 16 German State Police forces. Along with the ''Mobile Einsatzkommando'' (MEK), ''Personenschutzkommando'' (bodyguards), and the ''Verhandlungsgruppe' ...

'' (SEK) - State Tactical Unit, Part of Uniformed Police **'' Beweissicherungs- und Festnahmeeinheit'' (BFE) - Special Detention Unit, Part of State Anti Riot Police **''

Mobiles Einsatzkommando Mobile may refer to: Places * Mobile, Alabama, a U.S. port city * Mobile County, Alabama * Mobile, Arizona, a small town near Phoenix, U.S. * Mobile, Newfoundland and Labrador Arts, entertainment, and media Music Groups and labels * Mobile ...

'' (MEK) ''-'' Tactical and Surveillance Unit, Part of Criminal Police

Greece

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Greek Police The Hellenic Police ( el, Ελληνική Αστυνομία, ''Ellinikí Astynomía'', abbreviated ) is the national police service and one of the three security forces of the Hellenic Republic. It is a large agency with responsibilities rang ...

* Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (EKAM) ; Greek Coast Guard * Special Operations Teams (OEA)

Haiti

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Haitian National Police The Haitian National Police (PNH; french: Police Nationale d'Haïti, , National Police of Haiti) is the law enforcement and ''de facto'' police force of Haiti. It was created in 1995 to bring public security under civilian control as mandated i ...

* Le Groupe d'Intervention de la Police Nationale d'Haïti (GIPNH) - National Police Intervention Group

Hong Kong

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Hong Kong Police Force The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) is the primary law enforcement, investigative agency, and largest disciplined service under the Security Bureau of Hong Kong. The Royal Hong Kong Police Force (RHKPF) reverted to its former name after the t ...

* Airport District ** Airport Security Unit (ASU) * Police Tactical Unit Headquarters **

Special Duties Unit The Special Duties Unit (SDU; ), nicknamed the "Flying Tigers" (), is the elite tactical unit of the Hong Kong Police Force tasked with countering terrorist attacks, hostage rescue, underwater search and recovery, and tackling serious crime ...

(SDU) ** Special Tactical Contingent (STC) * Counter-Terrorism and Internal Security Division ** Counter-Terrorism Response Unit (CTRU) * Crime Wing ** Operation Support Unit (aka Hit Team) * Railway District ** Railway Response Team (RRT) * Security Wing ** VIP Protection Unit (VIPPU) ** Witness Protection Unit (WPU) *Marine Police ** Maritime Emergency Response Team (MERT) ;

Hong Kong Correctional Services Hong Kong Correctional Services (also called Correctional Services Department (CSD)) is responsible for the management of prisoners and prisons in Hong Kong. The Commissioner of Correctional Services reports to the Secretary for Security. ...

* Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) * Regional Response Team (RRT)

Hungary

Counter Terrorism Centre Counter Terrorism Centre (CTC) ( hu, Terrorelhárítási Központ, TEK) is a Hungarian government agency responsible for national and international counter terrorism including detection, prevention and interruption. The agency has a police tac ...

(TEK - ''Terrorelhárítási Központ'') * '' Készenléti Rendőrség'' (Operational Police)

Iceland

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Icelandic Police In Iceland, the Police () is the national police force of Iceland. It is responsible for law enforcement throughout the country, except in Icelandic territorial waters which fall under the jurisdiction of the Icelandic Coast Guard. Police affair ...

* '' Víkingasveitin'' ('Viking Squad') - Special Operations Unit of the National Commissioner

India

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Law Enforcement in India Indian law is enforced by a number of agencies. Unlike many federal nations, the constitution of India delegates the maintenance of law and order primarily to the states and territories. At the federal level, some of India's paramilitar ...

National Security Guard The National Security Guard (NSG), commonly known as Black Cats, is a counter-terrorism unit of India under the Ministry of Home Affairs. It was founded on 16 October 1984, following Operation Blue Star, for combating terrorist activities and ...

** Special Action Group (SAG) - the main offensive or the strike wing of the NSG *** 51 Special Action Group - counter-terrorism operations *** 52 Special Action Group - counter-hijack operations ** Special Ranger Group (SRG) - provides logistical support to the SAGs during operations *** 11 Special Ranger Group *** 12 Special Ranger Group *** 13 Special Ranger Group ** Special Composite Group (SCG) - conduct regional counter terror operations *** 26 Special Composite Group in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the secon ...

*** 27 Special Composite Group in

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

*** 28 Special Composite Group in

Hyderabad Hyderabad ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana and the ''de jure'' capital of Andhra Pradesh. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River, in the northern part of Southern Indi ...

*** 29 Special Composite Group in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

*** 30 Special Composite Group in

Gandhinagar Gandhinagar (, ) is the capital of the state of Gujarat in India. Gandhinagar is located approximately 23 km north of Ahmedabad, on the west central point of the Industrial corridor between Delhi, the political capital of India, and Mum ...

* Border Security Force (BSF) ** Creek Crocodile Commando *

Railway Protection Force Railway Protection Force is a security force under the ownership of Indian Railways, Ministry of Railways, Government of India established by the Railway Protection Force Act, 1957; enacted by the Indian Parliament for "the better protection ...

** Commandos for Railway Safety (CORAS) *

Anti-Terrorism Squad Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) is a special police force in several states of India including Maharashtra, Gujarat, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. In Maharashtra, it is headed by senior of the Indian Police Ser ...

Andhra Pradesh Police The Andhra Pradesh Police is the law enforcement agency of the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. Public order and police being a state subject in India, the police force is headed by the Director general of police, Kasireddy Rajendranadh Reddy ...

Organisation for Counter Terrorist Operations Organisation for Counter Terrorist Operations (OCTOPUS) is an elite counter terrorism joint unit of the Andhra Pradesh Police in the state of Andhra Pradesh & and the Telangana Police in the state of Telangana in India. History On 1 October 200 ...

Jammu and Kashmir Police The Jammu and Kashmir Police or JKP is the law enforcement agency of Jammu and Kashmir (union territory). JKP was established in 1873 and has primary responsibilities in law enforcement and investigation within Jammu and Kashmir in India. Hist ...

** Special Operation Group (SOG) *

Gujarat Police The ' is the law enforcement agency for the state of Gujarat in India. The Gujarat Police has its headquarters in Gandhinagar, the state capital, and Ahmedabad. The Gujarat Police Department came into existence after Gujarat's separation fr ...

** Chetak Commandos *

Odisha Police The Odisha Police abbreviated as either OP or OPS, is the law enforcement agency for the state of Odisha in India. It is headquartered in Cuttack, the former capital of Odisha. The Odisha Police is headed by a Director General of Police, cur ...

** Special Operation Group (Odisha Police) *** Special Tactical Unit - Urban counter-terrorist unit of the parent force *

Maharashtra Police Maharashtra Police (IAST: ''Mahārāṣṭra Polīs Sēvā'', formerly ''Bombay State Police'') is the law enforcement agency responsible for the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is headed by Director General of Police, Rajnish Seth (IPS), and h ...

** C-60 Commando force **

Mumbai Police The Mumbai Police ( Marathi: मुंबई पोलीस, IAST: ''Mumbaī Pulīs'', formerly ''Bombay Police'') is the police department of the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a part of Maharashtra Police and has the primary responsibilit ...

*** Force One - specialized in counter-terrorism * Central Reserve Police Force **

Commando Battalion for Resolute Action COBRA (backronym for ''COmmando Battalion for Resolute Action'') is a special operation unit of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) of India proficient in guerrilla tactics and jungle warfare. Originally established to counter the Naxalit ...

''(COBRA)'' - Special operation force of the

CRPF The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) is a federal police organisation in India under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs (India), Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) of the Government of India. It is one among the Central Armed Police F ...

** Rapid Action Force - A specialized wing of

West Bengal Police The West Bengal Police is one of the two police forces of the Indian state of West Bengal. The other being the Kolkata Police, which has a separate jurisdiction across Kolkata. The West Bengal Police was reorganized under provisions of the Pol ...

Counter Insurgency Force Counter Insurgency Force or (CIF) A Police tactical unit of West Bengal Police with headquarters in Garia, West Bengal was created by the West Bengal state government in 2010 on the lines of Greyhounds in Andhra Pradesh to combat proscribed Na ...

- Counter insurgency & Counter terrorism unit of

Greyhounds The English Greyhound, or simply the Greyhound, is a breed of dog, a sighthound which has been bred for coursing, greyhound racing and hunting. Since the rise in large-scale adoption of retired racing Greyhounds, the breed has seen a resurgence ...

- Police special force unit operating in the Indian States of

Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the ...

and

Telangana Telangana (; , ) is a state in India situated on the south-central stretch of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the eleventh-largest state and the twelfth-most populated state in India with a geographical area of and 35 ...

for anti-insurgency operations * Punjab Police SWAT Team *

Kerala Police The Kerala Police is the law enforcement agency for the Indian state of Kerala. Kerala Police has its headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital. The motto of the force is "Mridhu Bhave Dhrida Kruthye" which means "Soft in Temperament ...

** Kerala Thunderbolts ;Protective Service Unit *

Special Protection Group The Special Protection Group (SPG) is an agency of the Government of India whose sole responsibility is protecting the Prime Minister of India and in some cases, his or her family. It was formed in 1988 by an Act of the Parliament of India. T ...

* SWAT teams of States like

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi Language, Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also Romanization, romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the I ...

Delhi Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders w ...

& Jammu & Kashmir

Indonesia

Indonesian National Police (POLRI) * Mobile Brigade Corps ( Indonesian: ''Korps Brigade Mobil'') abbreviated as Brimob ** Gegana is a detachment from Brimob which specializes in

bomb disposal Bomb disposal is an explosives engineering profession using the process by which hazardous explosive devices are rendered safe. ''Bomb disposal'' is an all-encompassing term to describe the separate, but interrelated functions in the milit ...

, CBR defense and

intelligence Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can ...

operations. *

Detachment 88 Counterterrorism Special Detachment 88 ( id, Detasemen Khusus 88 Antiteror), or Densus 88, is a tier one Indonesian National Police counter-terrorism squad formed on 30 June 2003, after the 2002 Bali bombings. It is funded, equipped, and trained b ...

, known locally as (''Densus 88'') is the special

unit of the

Indonesian National Police '' , mottotranslated = (Serving the Nation) , formed = , preceding1 = , dissolved = , superseding = , employees = 440,000 (2020) , volunteers = , budget = , nongovernment ...

. Directorate General of Customs and Excise (''Bea Cukai'') *" Customs Tactical Unit" also known as "CTU" is the special unit of the Indonesian

Customs Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country. Traditionally, customs ...

Maritime Security Agency (Bakamla) *" Maritime Rapid Reaction Unit" (''Unit Reaksi Cepat Laut'') abbreviated as URCL.

Iran

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Iranian Police , mottotranslated = "Be steadfast witnesses for Allah in equity" ( Heraldry slogan) , formedyear = 1991 , formedmonthday = April 1 , preceding1 = Shahrbani (1913–1991)Gendarmerie (1910–1991)Committee (1979–1991) , em ...

Iranian Police Special Units , image =IRI.NAJA.Special.Units.svg , image_size =150px , alt = , caption =Seal of Special Units Command , dates = 1991-present , disbanded = , country = , allegiance = , branch = Law Enforcement Command of Islamic Republic of Iran , ...

Counter-terrorism Special Force The NOPO ( fa, نوپو) officially standing for Counter-terrorism Special Force ( fa, نیروی ویژه پاد وحشت), and in some sources Guardians of the Islamic Jurist Special Forces ( fa, نیروهای ویژه پاسداران ولای ...

Iraq

; Iraqi Police * Hilla SWAT Team * Golden counterterrorism squad

Ireland

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Garda Síochána (; meaning "the Guardian(s) of the Peace"), more commonly referred to as the Gardaí (; "Guardians") or "the Guards", is the national police service of Ireland. The service is headed by the Garda Commissioner who is appointed by the Irish Gove ...

'' (National Police) *

(ERU) * Armed Support Unit (ASU)

Israel

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Israel Police The Israel Police ( he, משטרת ישראל, ''Mišteret Yisra'el''; ar, شرطة إسرائيل, ''Shurtat Isrāʼīl'') is the civilian police force of Israel. As with most other police forces in the world, its duties include crime fightin ...

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Yasam The Yasam ( he, יס"מ) is the Israel Police Special Patrol Unit ( he, יחידת סיור מיוחדת ''Yeḥidat Siyur Meyuḥedet''), a riot police unit dedicated to continuous security, riot and crowd control, and other special operations. ...

'' *'' Gidonim'' ;

Israel Border Police The Israel Border Police ( he, מִשְׁמַר הַגְּבוּל, Mišmar Ha-Gvul) is the gendarmerie and border security branch of the Israel National Police. It is also commonly known by its Hebrew abbreviation Magav (), meaning border g ...

Yamam The Yamam ( he, ימ"מ, an acronym for ''Centralized Special Unit'' , ''Yeḥida Merkazit Meyuḥedet''), also called in Hebrew and Israel's National Counter Terror Unit (I.N.C.T.U.) in English, is Israel's national counter-terrorism unit, ...

'' Yamas ;

Israel Prison Service Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

*''Nachshon'' *''Dror'' * Metzada

Italy

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Carabinieri The Carabinieri (, also , ; formally ''Arma dei Carabinieri'', "Arm of Carabineers"; previously ''Corpo dei Carabinieri Reali'', "Royal Carabineers Corps") are the national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carry out domestic and foreign polic ...

'' (National Gendarmerie) * '' Gruppo di Intervento Speciale'' (GIS) * ''

Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale The Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale (ROS), or Special Operations Group, is part of the Italian Carabinieri. History Founded on 3 December 1990 to coordinate investigative activities against organized crime, it is now the main investigative ar ...

'' (ROS) ;''

Polizia di Stato The ''Polizia di Stato'' (State Police or P.S.) is one of the national police forces of Italy. Alongside the Carabinieri, it is the main police force for providing police duties, primarily to cities and large towns, and with its child agencie ...

'' (National Civil Police) * ''

Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza The ''Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza'' (NOCS) ( en, Central Security Task Group) is the police tactical unit of the Polizia di Stato, one of Italy's national police forces. It operates under the command of the ''Direzione Centrale della P ...

'' (NOCS) * '' Servizio Centrale Operativo'' (SCO) ; Italian Penitentiary Police * ''

Gruppo Operativo Mobile Gruppo may refer to: * groupset, a bicycle component manufacturer's organized collection of mechanical parts * Leonard Gruppo (born 1942), a politician in Pennsylvania See also

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'' (GOM) ; Italian Finance Security: * '' Antiterrorismo Pronto Impiego'' (AT-PI) * '' Gruppo di investigazione criminalità organizzata'' (GICO)

Japan

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Bureaus of Prefectural police headquarters (supervised by the National Police Agency Security Bureau) *

Special Assault Team The is a police tactical unit in major Japanese prefectural police departments, supervised by the National Police Agency. The SAT is a national-level counter-terrorism unit that cooperates with territorial-level Anti-Firearms Squads and Cou ...

(SAT) - national-level

units * Anti-firearms squads - territorial-level counter-terrorism units ;

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Bureaus of Prefectural police headquarters *

Special Investigation Team The are tactical detective units of Japanese prefectural police. Special Investigation Teams are maintained by prefectural police headquarters and are trained to handle critical incidents including criminal investigation and tactical operation ...

(SIT) - Akita/Iwate/Ibaraki/Miyagi/Fukushima/Tochigi/Tokyo/Shizuoka/Aichi/Mie/Fukuoka/Nagasaki * Martial Arts Attack Team (MAAT) - Osaka * Assault Response Team - Chiba * Special Tactical Section - Saitama * Special Investigation Section - Kanagawa * Technical Special Team - Aomori * Hostage Rescue Team - Hiroshima ;

Japan Coast Guard The is the coast guard of Japan. The Japan Coast Guard consists of about 13,700 personnel and is responsible for the protection of the coastline of Japan under the oversight of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Th ...

Special Security Team The is a counter terrorism tactical unit of the Japan Coast Guard, based at the . The acronym of its Kanji name has already been used by other units, the abbreviation "SST" is used for this team. Background In 1985, the Maritime Safety Agency ...

(SST) - national-level maritime counter-terrorism teams * - regional-level riot control and special reaction teams

Jordan

; General Directorate Of Gendarmerie * Unit 14 ; GID * GID Special Unit

Kenya

General Service Unit (Kenya) The General Service Unit (GSU) is a paramilitary wing in the Kenya Police Service, consisting of highly trained police officers, transported by seven dedicated Cessnas and three Bell helicopters. Having been in existence since 1948, the GSU h ...

Kosovo

* NJSI - Special Intervention Unit * NJSO - Special Operation Unit * NJRSH - Rapid Response Unit

Kuwait

* Kuwait Special Force (''Al Quwat Al Khasa'') * Kuwait Swat team

Latvia

; State Police of Latvia * Special Tasks Battalion ( lv, Speciālo Uzdevumu Bataljons) former as Special Tasks Battalion "ALFA" * Counter-terrorist unit "

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" ( lv, Pretterorisma vienība "

Lebanon

Lebanese Internal Security Forces Directorate *Black Panthers (Al Fouhoud) - Special Operations Unit * Information Branch - Intelligence Unit

Liechtenstein

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'' * Intervention Unit (german: Interventionseinheit (IVE))

Lithuania

Police Department The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest ...

* ARAS - Lithuanian Police Anti-terrorist Operations Unit ( lt, Lietuvos policijos antiteroristinių operacijų rinktinė) * Mobile Squads - Lithuanian Public Police Tactical Support, Riot Control, and Crimesupression units ( lt, Lietuvos viešosios policijos mobilus būrys) State Border Guard Service * SPS "Perkūnas" - Special Purpose Unit " Perkunas" ( lt, Specialios Paskirties Skyrius "Perkūnas") former as Special Purpose Squad (VSAT SPB) Public Security Service * ORKA - Operative Reaction Counterattack Squad ( lt, Viešojo Saugumo Tarnybos Operatyvus Kontratakos Būrys) Dignitary Protection Service * Tactical Support Unit - ( lt, Vadovybės Apsaugos Tarnybos Taktinės Paramos Skyrius)

Luxembourg

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Grand Ducal Police The Grand Ducal Police ( lb, Groussherzoglech Police) is the national police force of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The police is under the control of the Minister for the Interior of Luxembourg, although they operate in the name, and under t ...

* ''

Unité Spéciale de la Police The ''Unité Spéciale de la Police'' (USP) ( en, Special Police Unit) is the police tactical unit of the Grand Ducal Police that was created in Luxembourg in 1999. It is tasked with responding to especially dangerous situations such as hostage re ...

Macau

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Public Security Police Force of Macau The Public Security Police Force (;https://www.ssm.gov.mo/docs/414/414_99a608ac6d9e4c035e0e4eb47ab1f62cfc7a0c38_000.pdf pt, Corpo de Polícia de Segurança Pública de Macau, abbreviated ) is the non-criminal police department of Macau and ...

*Police Tactical Intervention Unit ** Special Operations Team (GOE) ;

Correctional Services Bureau The Correctional Services Bureau (; pt, Direcção dos Serviços Correccionais, DSC) is the agency responsible for maintaining inmates in Macau, China. It is under the administration of the Secretariat for Security. History On 1 January 2 ...

*Tactical Response Unit

Republic of Macedonia

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Macedonian Police Law enforcement in North Macedonia is the responsibility of the Police of the Republic of North Macedonia (, ''Policija na Republika Severna Makedonija''). The police headquarters are located in Skopje at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, an ...

* Special Anti-Terrorism Unit - "Tigers" (''Специјална Антитерористичка Единица —Тигар'') * Unit for fast deployment (''Единица за Брзо Распоредување'')

Malaysia

; Royal Malaysia Police *''

Pasukan Gerakan Khas ''Pasukan Gerakan Khas'' (Abbreviation: PGK; 'Special Operations Command — Police SOCOM', Jawi: ڤاسوكن ڬرقن خاص) is a special operations command of the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP). The PGK has two distinct sub-units; the Specia ...

'' (PGK; 'Special Operation Command') ** 69 Commando Battalion (VAT 69; ) - Police special forces unit that specialised in jungle warfare. Some also trained as a counter-terrorism unit. **

Special Actions Unit The Special Actions Unit ('','' Jawi: اونيت تيندق خاص), commonly known as and abbreviated to UTK is a tactical unit of the Royal Malaysia Police (RMP). The unit is headquartered at the RMP buildings in Bukit Aman, Kuala Lumpur. ...

() - Police special forces unit that specialised in counter-terrorism in the urban area and big cities. Some also assigned as close-protection to the top government executives. *

General Operations Force The General Operations Force ( ms, Pasukan Gerakan Am; PGA, ''Jawi'': ڤاسوكن ڬرقن عام) is the light infantry arm of the Royal Malaysia Police. The General Operations Force was established in 1948 during the Malayan Emergency by th ...

** Tiger Platoon - Paramilitary police front-line special combat unit *

Marine Operations Force The Marine Police Force, Royal Malaysia Police (Abbreviation: MPF RMP; ms, Pasukan Polis Marin, Polis Diraja Malaysia; PPM PDRM) is the Marine Police division of the Royal Malaysia Police tasked with maintainin ...

** Marine Assault Team (MAST; ) - Marine police counter-terrorism unit ; Malaysia Coast Guard * Special Task and Rescue (STAR) - Coast Guard's counter-terrorism unit ;Other federal government agencies * '' Trup Tindakan Cepat'' (TTC) -

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's SWAT team * '' Pasukan Taktikal Khas'' (PASTAK) -

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's SWAT team * Customs Operational Battle Force Response Assault (COBRA) - Customs' SWAT team

Malta

;Maltese Police * Rapid Intervention Unit (RIU) and Special Intervention Unit (SIU)

Mexico

; ''Policia Federal'' * ''Grupo de Operaciones Especiales'' (GOPES) * '' Fuerzas Federales de Apoyo'' * '' Proteccion Federal'' * ''Policia Federal de Caminos'' * '' Division de Inteligencia''

Mongolia

;Mongolian Police * Special Response Unit * SWAT

Morocco

Royal Gendarmerie *''Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie royale'' (G.I.G.R) National Police *''Bureau central des investigations judiciaire'' (B.C.I.J)

Myanmar

Myanmar Police Force The Myanmar Police Force ( my, မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့), formerly the People's Police Force (), is the law enforcement agency of Myanmar. It was established in 1964 as an independent department under ...

*''Special Weapona and Tactics (S.W.A.T)''

Namibia

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Namibian Police Force The Namibian Police Force (NAMPOL) is the national police force of Namibia. It was established by the Namibian Constitution and enacted by an act of Parliament. The Namibian Police Force replaced the South West African Police as the national p ...

Special Reserve Force The Special Reserve Force is a division with in the Namibian Police Force. Primarily its role is a police tactical unit based on the Special Task Force of the South African Police Service. The unit was a reserve unit within Special Field Force t ...

(SRF)

Netherlands

;''Nationale Politie'' (National Police) * ''

Dienst Speciale Interventies The ''Dienst Speciale Interventies'' ( en, Special Intervention Service), commonly abbreviated DSI, is the elite police tactical unit of the Dutch National Police Corps and was formally established on 1 July 2006. The DSI is tasked with neutralisin ...

'' (Special Intervention Service) - Collection of joint, on-call or part-time basis SWAT teams recruiting from police, military police and army (but falling under civilian police command). The Service consists of four Units: **''Aanhoudings- en Ondersteuningsteams'' (Arrest and Support Teams) - High-risk arrests, protection of undercover police officers and secret agents and supporting investigation work. **''Unit Interventie'' (Intervention Unit) - Small-scale high-risk operations, deployed in situations involving heavy firearms, explosions, hazardous substances and/or suicidal gunmen. **''

M-Squadron M-Squadron, formerly the ''Unit Interventie Mariniers'' (Marine Intervention Unit, UIM), and before that known as the ''Bijzondere Bijstandseenheid'' (Special Support Unit, BBE), is an elite Dutch special forces unit which is tasked with conduc ...

'' (Marine Intervention Unit), also known by the name of its main component,

NLMARSOF The Netherlands Maritime Special Operations Forces (NLMARSOF, also simply referred to as MARSOF) is the special forces unit of the Marine Corps of the Royal Netherlands Navy. It is one of the three principal units tasked with special operation ...

- Large-scale counter-terrorism operations. Capable of land, air, amphibious, marine and submarine operations and responsible for operations in large aircraft and buildings and installations at sea. Called in when the ''Unit Interventie'' can no longer handle the situation, which makes it the ultimate special law enforcement unit of the Netherlands. **''Unit Expertise en Operationele Ondersteuning'' (Expertise and Operational Support Unit) - Sniper teams. Police and army each provide one half of the snipers. *''Dienst Bewaken & Beveiliging'' (Guard & Security Service) - VIP security, most notably

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, politicians and diplomats. *''Mobiele Eenheid'' (ME) (Mobile Unit) - Part-time non-lethal riot police. When not deployed, officers serve as regular police. ;''Koninklijke Landmacht'' (Royal Army) *''Korps Commandotroepen (KCT) - Responsible for counter-terrorism and special operations in foreign countries.'' ; ''Koninklijke Marechaussee'' (Royal Military Constabulary) * ''

Brigade Speciale Beveiligingsopdrachten The ''Brigade Speciale Beveiligingsopdrachten'' (BSB) ( en, Special Security Missions Brigade) is the elite police tactical unit of the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee. Its missions include counter-terrorism, protection of government and military o ...

'' (Special Protection Tasks Brigade) - Very high-risk arrests, infiltration and VIP security. Unlike the secret agents of the

AIVD The General Intelligence and Security Service ( nl, Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst, AIVD; ) is the intelligence and security agency of the Netherlands, tasked with domestic, foreign and signals intelligence and protecting national s ...

, its undercover police officers are allowed to carry weapons. *''Bijstandseenheid'' (Support Unit) - Various SWAT duties and, most notably, serving as heavy riot police and internal security force cleared to use lethal force if necessary to restore public order. ;''Dienst Justitionele Inrichtingen'' (Custodial Institutions Agency) *''Intern Bijstand Team'' (Internal Support Team) - Low-risk prison riot squads and backup teams for regular prison officers, available around the clock at every institution *''Dienst Vervoer en Ondersteuning'' (Transport and Support Service) - In addition to the offices and training facilities of the Agency, also consists out of: **''Landelijke Bijzondere Bijstandseenheid'' (National Special Support Unit) - High-risk prison riot, shakedown and evacuation unit. Also includes canine units and escorts for when prisoners have to go to hospitals. **''Bijzonder Ondersteunings Team'' (BOT) (Special Support Team) - High-risk prisoner transport.

New Zealand

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New Zealand Police The New Zealand Police ( mi, Ngā Pirihimana o Aotearoa) is the national police service and principal law enforcement agency of New Zealand, responsible for preventing crime, enhancing public safety, bringing offenders to justice, and maintaini ...

Armed Offenders Squad The Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) are specialist part-time units of the New Zealand Police based around the country available to respond to high risk incidents using specialist tactics and equipment. The AOS was established when front-line pol ...

(AOS), incidents involving weapons * Special Tactics Group (STG), counter terrorist

Nicaragua

;Policia Nacional-DOEP * ''Tácticas y Armas Policiales de Intervención y Rescate'' (TAPIR) * ''Departamento de Intervención Rápida'' (GIR)

Nigeria

; Nigeria Police Force * Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) - counter terrorist unit * Rapid Response Squad (RRS) * Criminals Investigation Department (CID) * Special Anti-Cultism Squad (SACS) * Anti-Riot Squad *

Nigerian Mobile Police The Nigerian Mobile Police (MOPOL) force is the paramilitary arm of the Nigeria Police Force and operate under orders from the Nigerian federal government. Organization The Police Mobile Force was established as a strike or Anti-riot unit under t ...

Force * Anti-Bomb Squad. ;

State Security Service (Nigeria) The State Security Service (SSS), self-styled as the Department of State Services (DSS), is a security agency of Nigeria and one of three successor organisations to the National Security Organization (NSO). The agency is under the Presidency ...

* Department of State Security (DSS), VIP protection/counter terrorist

Norway

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Norwegian Police Service The Norwegian Police Service ( no, Politi- og lensmannsetaten) is the Norwegian national civilian police agency. The service dates to the 13th century when the first sheriffs were appointed, and the current structure established in 2003. It c ...

* Delta ( no, Beredskapstroppen) * '' Utrykningsenheten'' (UEH)

Pakistan

; Federal agencies **

Federal Investigation Agency The Federal Investigation Agency ( ur, ; reporting name: FIA) is a border control, criminal investigation, counter-intelligence and security agency under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, tasked with investigative jurisdi ...

— Counter-terrorism Wing (CTW) ; Provincial agencies * Punjab Police — Elite Force & Dolphin Force *

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— Special Security Unit *

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police (), formerly known as the Frontier Police, is the provincial law enforcement agency of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. History British colonial era In 1849, the land corresponding to modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkh ...

— Special Combat Unit

Panama

* Darien- Kuna Yala Border Security Police (DARKUN)

Peru

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National Police of Peru The Peruvian National Police ( es, Policía Nacional del Perú, PNP) is the national police force of Peru. Its jurisdiction covers the nation's land, sea, and air territories. Formed from the merge of the Investigative Police, the Civil Guard, ...

*Tactical Action Sub-Unit - (Sub-Unidad de Acción Táctica) SUAT

Philippines

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Philippine National Police The Philippine National Police ( fil, Pambansang Pulisya ng Pilipinas, acronymed as PNP) is the armed national police force in the Philippines. Its national headquarters is located at Camp Crame in Bagong Lipunan ng Crame, Quezon City. Currentl ...

Special Action Force The Special Action Force (SAF) is the elite unit of the Philippine National Police founded by Fidel V. Ramos, later the twelfth president of the Philippines. History Formed on May 12, 1983, by the now-defunct Philippine Constabulary (PC) as t ...

* SWAT *Regional Mobile Force Battalions (RMFB) in each Regional Police Offices. *District Mobile Force Battalions (DMFB) in each Police District under the

National Capital Region Police Office The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) is a division of the Philippine National Police (PNP) that has jurisdiction over Metro Manila, also known as the National Capital Region. It is headquartered in Camp Bagong Diwa. History As PC ...

. *Provincial Mobile Force Companies (PMFC) in each Provincial Police Office. *City Mobile Force Companies (CMFC) in City Police Offices in Major cities outside

Metro Manila Metropolitan Manila (often shortened as Metro Manila; fil, Kalakhang Maynila), officially the National Capital Region (NCR; fil, link=no, Pambansang Punong Rehiyon), is the capital region, seat of government and one of three List of metrop ...

Poland

; ABW ; BOR ;'' Policja'' * BOA *''Centralne Biuro Śledcze Policji'' (CBŚP) * ''Samodzielny Pododdział Antyterrorystyczny Policji'' (SPAP) ; ''Straż Graniczna'' (SG)

Portugal

Public Security Police * Special Police Unit (UEP) ** Intervention Corps - riot control unit ** Special Operations Group (GOE) - special tactical assault unit ** Personal Security Corps - VIP protection unit ** Center for Explosive Disposal and Subsoil Security (CIESS) - EOD and subsoil security unit ** Cino-technical Operational Group - K9 unit National Republican Guard * Intervention Unit (UI) ** Special Operations Intervention Group (GIOE) - special tactical assault unit ** Public Order Intervention Group (GIOP) - riot control unit ** Protection and Rescue Intervention Group (GIPS) - Rescue and firefighting unit ** Center for Explosive Disposal and Subsoil Security (CIESS) - EOD and subsoil security unit ** Cino-technical Intervention Group (GIC) - K9 unit Prison Guard * Cino-technical Operational Group - K9 unit * Intervention and Prison Security Group (GISP) - tactical intervention unit Maritime Police * Tactical Actions Group (GAT) - special boarding unit * Forensic Diving Group - underwater forensic investigation unit

Romania

; Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform * Special Group for Protection and Intervention (GSPI) - disbanded ;

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* '' Detașamentul de Poliție pentru Intervenție Rapidă'' ** SAS - the service for special actions **''SIIAS Serviciul Independent pentru Intervenții și Acțiuni Speciale'' (Independent Special Actions and Intervention Service) ; Romanian Gendarmerie * BSIJ Special Intervention Brigade "Vlad Țepeș" ; Romanian Secret Service (SRI) * BAT - Anti-Terror Brigade

Russia

; Center of Special Operations of the FSB * Directorate "A" (''Spetsgruppa Alpha'') * Directorate "V" (''Spetsgruppa Vympel'') * Directorate "S" (''Spetsgruppa Smerch'') * Directorate "K" ('' Kavkaz'' - formerly Special Purpose unit for the city of

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) * Directorate "T" (Spetsgruppa ''Tavrida'') (

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, previously - 2nd service "SN" of FSB) * Special Arms Service ; Foreign Intelligence Service * Special Operations Department of Directorate Z (''Zaslon'') ; Ministry of Internal Affairs *OSN "Grom" for Counter-Drugs operations (formerly it was subordinated to the defunct

Federal Drug Control Service of Russia Federal or foederal (archaic) may refer to: Politics General *Federal monarchy, a federation of monarchies *Federation, or ''Federal state'' (federal system), a type of government characterized by both a central (federal) government and states or ...

) ;

National Guard of Russia The National Guard of the Russian Federation (russian: Федеральная служба войск национальной гвардии Российской Федерации , translit = Federal'naya sluzhba voysk natsional'noy gvard ...

* Special Purpose Mobile Unit (''O.M.O.N.'') * Special Rapid Response Units (''S.O.B.R.'')

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*Dozens of various independent detachments, such as OSN Saturn.

Federal Penitentiary Service The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN, Russian: Федеральная служба исполнения наказаний (ФСИН), ''Federalnaya Sluzhba Ispolneniya Nakazaniy'') is a federal agency of the Ministry of Justice of Russia ...

OSNs: *OSN "Fakel" *OSN "Rossy" *OSN "Akula" *OSN "Ajsberg" *OSN "Gurza" *OSN "Korsar" *OSN "Rosomaha" *OSN "Sokol" *OSN "Saturn" *OSN "Tornado" *OSN "Kondor" *OSN "Yastreb" *OSN "Berkut" *OSN "Grif" *OSN "Titan" *OSN "Gepard"

Singapore

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Singapore Police Force The Singapore Police Force (SPF) is the national and principal Police, law enforcement agency responsible for the prevention of crime and law enforcement in the Republic of Singapore. It is the country's lead agency against organised crime; huma ...

* Emergency Response Team (ERT) * Special Operations Command (SOC) * Rapid Deployment Troops * Police Tactical Unit (PTU) * Special Tactics and Rescue (STAR) * Special Guard and Counter-Terrorism Unit (GC) * Special Action Group (GC) * Special Tactical Unit (GC) * In-Situ Reaction Team (ProCom) * Counter Assault Unit ; Singapore Prison Service * Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response (SPEAR) ; Police Coast Guard * Special Task Squadron (STS) * Emergency Response Force

Slovenia

* ''

Specialna Enota Policije Specialna Enota Policije (SEP) ( en, Special Police Unit) is the police tactical unit of the Slovenian National Police Force. SEP is utilised for counter-terrorism and other high-risk tasks that are too dangerous or too difficult for regular po ...

'' (SEP) - the principle counter-terrorist & hostage rescue unit, * '' Posebna Policijska Enota'' (PPE) - the principle public order & peace enforcement unit.

Serbia

* Special Anti-Terrorist Unit * Gendarmery

Slovakia

* ''Útvar Osobitného Určenia'' (UOU) Lynx commando - Special Designation Unit of the Presidium of Police

South Africa

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South African Police Service The South African Police Service (SAPS) is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa. Its 1,154 police stations in South Africa are divided according to the provincial borders, and a Provincial Commissioner is appointed in ea ...

* Special Task Force (STF) * National Intervention Unit (NIU) - This Unit of the South African Police Service respond to incidents of medium to high risk. * Tactical Response Team (TRT) a part of the South African Police Response services, respond to incidents medium to high risk situations. Tasked with follow up operations, battle craft rural and urban operations, support at ports of entry, cluster operations, land borne operations overt & covert ops. Most of its members are now part of the parliamentary security team. They also provide escorts of dangerous prisoners. * South African Police Service Riot Squad/Anti-Riot Squad/ Public Order Policing/Internal Stability Unit (POP/ISU) Its members are highly trained in advance crowd control both French & Belgium tactics, medium to high risk operations

South Korea

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National Police Agency National Police may refer to the national police forces of several countries: *Afghanistan: Afghan National Police *Haiti: Haitian National Police *Colombia: National Police of Colombia *Cuba: Cuban National Police *East Timor: National Police of ...

* Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) ** Seoul Metropolitan Police SWAT Team (Unit 868) ** Incheon Metropolitan Police SWAT Team (Unit 313) ** Busan Metropolitan Police SWAT Team (Unit 431) ** Daegu Metropolitan Police SWAT Team ** Jeju Metropolitan Police SWAT Team ;

Republic of Korea Coast Guard The Korean Coast Guard (KCG; ko, 해양경찰청; Hanja: , Revised Romanization: Haeyang-gyeongchal-cheong, literally ''Maritime Police Agency'') is a South Korean law enforcement sub-agency responsible for maritime safety and control off th ...

* Sea Special Assault Team (SSAT) ** Busan SSAT Team ** Incheon SSAT Team

Spain

; ''Guardia Civil'' (Spanish gendarmerie) * ''

Unidad Especial de Intervención The Unidad Especial de Intervención (UEI) () is the Police Tactical Unit of the Guardia Civil (), the Spanish gendarmerie. Overview UEI was established in 1978 to respond to high risk situations and including those involving hostages. Its mo ...

'' (UEI, Special Intervention Unit) - "Tier 1" special forces unit for counter-terrorism and hostage rescue among other critical tasks. * '' Grupo de Acción Rápida'' (GAR, Rapid Action Group) - "Tier 2" special forces unit formerly focused on counter-terrorism in rural areas, now multipurpose. ;

National Police Corps of Spain The National Police Corps ( es, Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, link=no, CNP; ; also known simply as National Police, ) is the national civilian police force of Spain. The CNP is mainly responsible for policing urban areas, whilst rural policing ...

* ''

Grupo Especial de Operaciones The Grupo Especial de Operaciones (GEO, ; '' en, Special Group of Operations'', GEO), is the police tactical unit of Spain's National Police Corps. The GEO has response capabilities and is responsible for VIP protection duties, as well as counter ...

'' (GEO, Special Operations Group) - "Tier 1" special forces unit for counter-terrorism and hostage rescue among other critical tasks. * ''Grupos Operativos Especiales de Seguridad'' (GOES, Special Operative Security Groups) - smaller SWAT-like teams throughout Spain. ;''

Mossos d'Esquadra The ''Mossos d'Esquadra'' (; en, Squad), also known as the ''Policia de la Generalitat de Catalunya'' and informally as ''Mossos'', is the autonomous police force responsible for law enforcement in Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia. ...

'' (Catalonian regional police) * ''Grup Especial d'Intervenció'' (GEI, Special Intervention Group) - Catalonian regional special unit similar to UEI and GEO. ;''

Ertzaintza The (, en, Public Guard or ''People's Guard''), is the autonomous police force for the Basque Country, largely replacing the Spanish Policía Nacional (National Police) and Guardia Civil (Civil Guard). An Ertzaintza member is called an ''e ...

'' (Basque regional police) * ''Berrozi Berezi Taldea'' (BBT, Special Intervention Group) - Basque regional special unit similar to UEI and GEO. ; ''

Policía Foral The Chartered Police of Navarre ( es, Policía Foral de Navarra, eu, Nafarroako Foruzaingoa) is the autonomous police force for the chartered autonomous community of Navarre in Spain, largely replacing the Spanish Policía Nacional (National P ...

'' (Navarrese regional police) *''Grupo de Intervención Especial'' (GIE, Special Intervention Group) - Navarrese regional special unit similar to UEI and GEO.

Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka Police Service (The one who lives by the Dhamma is protected by the Dhamma itself) , mission = , formedyear = , preceding1 = Ceylon Police Force (1866–1972) , dissolved = , superseding = , employees = ...

* Special Task Force (STF)

Sweden

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Swedish Police Authority The Swedish Police Authority ( sv, Polismyndigheten) is the national police force (''Polisen'') of the Kingdom of Sweden. The first modern police force in Sweden was established in the mid-19th century, and the police remained in effect under lo ...

National Task Force The National Task Force ( sv, Nationella insatsstyrkan, ''NI''), formerly known as the National Task Force of the Swedish Civilian Police ( sv, Ordningspolisens nationella insatsstyrka), is a police tactical unit within the National Operations Dep ...

(''Nationella insatsstyrkan'') *

Reinforced Regional Task Force Reinforced Regional Task Force ( sv, Förstärkt Regional Insatsstyrka), prior to 2015 officially known as Piketen (or Piketenheten) is a regional special operations asset of the Swedish Police Authority, similar to SWAT type units in the United ...

(''Förstärkt Regional Insatsstyrka'') ** Reinforced Regional Task Force Stockholm (''Förstärk Regional Insatsstyrka Stockholm'') ** Reinforced Regional Task Force South (''Förstärkt Regional Insatsstyrka Syd'') ** Reinforced Regional Task Force West (''Förstärkt Regional Insatsstyrka Väst'') *

Regional Task Force The Regional Cooperation Initiative for the elimination of the LRA (RCI-LRA) with its military arm, the African Union Regional Task Force (AU-RTF or RTF) was a multi-national operation to counter the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). On 22 November ...

(''Regional Insatsstyrka'') ** Regional Task Force East ** Regional Task Force Bergslagen ** Regional Task Force Middle ** Regional Task Force North

Switzerland

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Federal Office of Police The Federal Office of Police (Fedpol, german: Bundesamt für Polizei, french: Office fédéral de la police, it, Ufficio federale di polizia, rm, Uffizi federal da polizia) of Switzerland is subject to the Federal Department of Justice and P ...

(FedPol) * ''Einsatzgruppe'' TIGRIS ;''Cantonal'' (states) police : * Basel-campaign State Police **'' Interventionseinheit Barracuda'' * Bern State Police **'' Einsatzgruppe Enzian'' * Central Switzerland Police **'' Interventionseinheit Lynx'' *

Fribourg State Police , neighboring_municipalities= Düdingen, Givisiez, Granges-Paccot, Marly, Pierrafortscha, Sankt Ursen, Tafers, Villars-sur-Glâne , twintowns = Rueil-Malmaison (France) , website = www.ville-fribourg.ch , Location of , Location of () () o ...

**'' Groupe d'intervention de la police cantonale fribourgeoise'' (GRIF) * Geneva State Police **'' Groupe d'intervention de la police cantonale'' (GRIC/GI) * Jura State Police **'' Groupe d'intervention et Tireurs d'Elite'' (GITE) * Neuchatel State Police ** GI COUGAR * Ticino State Police **'' Reparti Speciali-Gruppo d'Intervento'' (ReS-GI) * Valais State Police **'' Groupe d'intervention "Edelweiss"'' (GI Edelweiss) *

Vaud State Police Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms ...

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Détachement d'Action Rapide et de Dissuasion The ''Détachement d'Action Rapide et de Dissuasion'' (DARD) ( en, Swift Action and Deterrent Detachment) is a specialist unit of the cantonal police of Vaud, originally established to counter the growing rate of terrorism in Europe during t ...

'' (DARD) * Zürich State Police **'' Einsatzgruppe Diamant'' **'' Interventionseinheit Skorpion''

Taiwan

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(NPA) * National Police Agency Special Operations Group * Criminal Investigation Bureau Special Task Unit * Special Police Corps ** Wei-An Special Services Commando *

Thunder Squad Thunder Squad () is a special services unit of the National Police Agency in Taiwan, a highly trained SWAT unit established in 1985 to conduct high-risk arrests and other dangerous law enforcement duties. This 200 man group is organized into sm ...

(Special Weapons And Tactics Police Counter-Terrorism unit) ; Coast Guard Administration *

Special Task Unit The Special Task Unit is a special operations unit of the Coast Guard Administration of Taiwan. Overview The Special Task Unit is an elite special forces, maritime rescue, and counterterrorism unit of the CGA. In 2010 the unit had 52 members ...

Thailand

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Royal Thai Police The Royal Thai Police (RTP) ( th, สำนักงานตำรวจแห่งชาติ; ) is the national police force of Thailand. The RTP employs between 210,700 and 230,000 officers, roughly 17 percent of all civil servants (excludi ...

* Royal Thai Police '' Arintaraj 26'' Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Black Tiger Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Burapa 491 Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Counter Terrorism Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Danthai 54 Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Eagle 7 Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Hanuman Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Kumhang-Songkram Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Long Range Surveillance Unit (LRSU) * Royal Thai Police Narcotics Suppression Bureau Commando (NSB Commando) * Royal Thai Police ''Naresuan'' 261 Special Operation Unit * Royal Thai Police Pali 63 Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Rajadej Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Siharaj 65 Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Thotsarot 491 Special Operations Unit * Royal Thai Police Yakkharajh 49 Special Operations Unit Independent agencies * Court of Justice (COJ) ** Office of Security (OOS) *** Fugitive Unit (FU) Ministry *

Ministry of Finance A ministry of finance is a part of the government in most countries that is responsible for matters related to the finance. Lists of current ministries of finance Named "Ministry" * Ministry of Finance (Afghanistan) * Ministry of Finance and Ec ...

(MOF) ** Customs Department (CD) *** Special Operations Unit (SOU) *

(MOI) ** Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA) *** Department of Provincial Administration Special Wisdom And Tactics (DOPA S.W.A.T.) *

(MOJ) ** Department of Corrections (DC) *** Special Operations Section (SOS) **

Department of Special Investigation The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is a department of the Ministry of Justice of Thailand. It operates independently of the Royal Thai Police and is tasked with the investigation of certain "special cases". These include complex crimi ...

(DSI) *** Bureau of Special Operation (BSO) ** Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) *** Eagle 19 Special Operations Team (Eagle 19 SOT) * Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) **

Royal Forest Department The Royal Forest Department ( Abrv: RFD; th, กรมป่าไม้, ) is a department in the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), part of the Government of Thailand. History On 18 September 1896 King Chulalongkorn establ ...

(RFD) *** Naam Peung 62 Special Operations Unit (Naam Peung 62 SOU) *** Small Ranger Unit (SRU) * Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) ** National Intelligence Agency (NIA) ***Special Operations Division (SOD)

Turkey

; General Directorate of Security * '' Police Special Operation Department'' * '' Police Counter Attack Team'' ;

Turkish Gendarmerie The Gendarmerie General Command ( tr, Jandarma Genel Komutanlığı) is the national Gendarmerie force of the Republic of Turkey. It is a service branch of the Turkish Ministry of Interior responsible for the maintenance of the public order in a ...

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Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command The Gendarmerie Special Public Security Command ( tr, Jandarma Özel Asayiş Komutanlığı) or shortly as JÖAK, is the tactical unit of the Gendarmerie General Command. It has several missions which include counter-terrorist actions, underwat ...

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Gendarmerie Special Operations The Gendarmerie Special Operations ( tr, Jandarma Özel Harekat) or JÖH, is the special operations unit of the Turkish Gendarmerie General Command. Its tasks include search and destroy, infiltration, and reconnaissance. Members of the unit rec ...

United Arab Emirates

; Dubai Police Force * Police Special Unit

United Kingdom

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Firearms unit A firearms unit is an armed unit within each territorial police force in the United Kingdom. For the most part, the police forces of the United Kingdom are unarmed; however, all have firearms units to provide the police force with the capabilit ...

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SFO San Francisco International Airport is an international airport in an unincorporated area of San Mateo County, south of Downtown San Francisco. It has flights to points throughout North America and is a major gateway to Europe, the Middle E ...

or CTSFO) ;National *

British Transport Police , nativename = , abbreviation = BTP , patch = , patchcaption = , logo = British Transport Police Logo.svg , logocaption = Logo of the British Transport Police , badge = , badgecaption = , f ...

Firearms **Dynamic Search Team (DS) **Interdiction Team (IT) **Strategic Escort Group (SEG) *

Ministry of Defence Police The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) is a civilian special police force which is part of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence. The MDP's primary responsibilities are to provide armed security and counter terrorism services to designated hig ...

Tactical Support Group ;Territorial police forces *

Avon & Somerset Constabulary Avon and Somerset Police is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in the county of Somerset and in four districts that used to be in the defunct county of Avon: Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and ...

Firearms unit and Dog unit *

Cambridgeshire Constabulary Cambridgeshire Constabulary is the local territorial police force that covers the county of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough unitary authority. It provides law enforcement and security for an area of and population of 856,000 people, in a pred ...

Tactical Firearms Unit *

City of London Police The City of London Police is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the City of London, including the Middle and Inner Temples. The force responsible for law enforcement within the remainder of the London region, o ...

Tactical Firearms Group *

Cleveland Police Cleveland Police is the territorial police force responsible for the policing area corresponding to the former county of Cleveland in Northern England. As of September 2017, the force had 1,274 police officers, 278 police staff, 124 police com ...

Specialist Operations Unit *

Devon and Cornwall Constabulary Devon and Cornwall Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the ceremonial counties of Devon and Cornwall (including the Isles of Scilly) in England. The force serves approximately 1.8 million people over an area of . ...

Tactical Aid Group *

Dorset Police Dorset Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Dorset in the south-west of England, which includes the largely rural area covered by Dorset Council, and the urban conurbation of Bournemouth, Christchurch ...

Tactical Firearms Unit *

Durham Constabulary Durham Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing ceremonial county of County Durham in North East England. The force’s area is bordered by Cumbria Constabulary to the west, Cleveland Police to the south east, Nor ...

Specialist Operations Unit *

Greater Manchester Police Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England. , Greater Manchester Police employed 6,866 police officers, 3,524 memb ...

Tactical Firearms Unit *

Kent Police Kent Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the and approximately 1.8 million inhabitants of Kent, a county in the south east of England. History On 14 January 1857, a 222-strong 'Kent County Constabulary' was formed u ...

Training and Tactical Firearms Unit *

Hampshire Constabulary The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the counties of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight in South East England.Hampshire Constabulary, 2012 Retrieved 27 April 2012 The force area inc ...

Tactical Firearms Support Unit *

Metropolitan Police Service The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly and still commonly known as the Metropolitan Police (and informally as the Met Police, the Met, Scotland Yard, or the Yard), is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and ...

Specialist Firearms Command The Specialist Firearms Command (SCO19) is the firearms unit of the Metropolitan Police Service (Greater London, England). The Command is responsible for providing a firearms-response capability, assisting the rest of the service which is not ro ...

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Territorial Support Group The Territorial Support Group (TSG) is a Met Operations unit of London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) which specialises in public order policing, amongst other specialist areas. In 2012 it consisted of 793 officers and 29 support staff. Th ...

Norfolk Constabulary Norfolk Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing Norfolk in East Anglia, England. The force serves a population of 908,000 in a mostly rural area of , including 90 miles of coastline and 16 rivers, including the B ...

Firearms Training & Operations Unit *

North Yorkshire Police North Yorkshire Police is the territorial police force covering the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire and the unitary authority of York in northern England. As of September 2018 the force had a strength of 1,357 police officers, 127 ...

Firearms Support Unit *

Police Service of Northern Ireland The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI; ga, Seirbhís Póilíneachta Thuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: ') is the police force that serves Northern Ireland. It is the successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) after it was reform ...

Headquarters Mobile Support Unit The Headquarters Mobile Support Unit (HMSU) is the police tactical unit of the Police Service of Northern Ireland. The HMSU was originally formed in the then Royal Ulster Constabulary part of Special Branch and was involved in several controversi ...

Police Scotland Police Scotland ( gd, Poileas Alba), officially the Police Service of Scotland (), is the national police force of Scotland. It was formed in 2013, through the merging of eight regional police forces in Scotland, as well as the specialist service ...

Specialist Firearms Unit *

South Wales Police South Wales Police ( cy, Heddlu De Cymru) is one of the four territorial police forces in Wales. It is headquartered in Bridgend. The force was formed as South Wales Constabulary on 1 June 1969, by the amalgamation of the former Glamorgan Cons ...

Gwent police Gwent Police ( cy, Heddlu Gwent) is a territorial police force in Wales, responsible for policing the local authority areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen. The force was formed in 1967 by the amalgamation o ...

& Dyfed-Powes Police Joint Firearms Unit *

Suffolk Constabulary Suffolk Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing Suffolk in East Anglia, England. The force serves a population of 761,000 in a mostly rural area of 1,466 square miles (3,796 km2), including 49 miles of coastline an ...

Tactical Firearms Unit *

Surrey Police Surrey Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Surrey in South East England. The force is currently led by Chief Constable Gavin Stephens. Previously the force was led by Nick Ephgrave who left the force t ...

Tactical Firearms Unit *

Sussex Police Sussex Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing in the whole of Sussex. Its jurisdiction covers the ceremonial counties of East Sussex and West Sussex. The force is headquartered in Malling House, Lewes, East Sussex. ...

Tactical Firearms Unit *

Staffordshire Police Staffordshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands of England. It is made up of eleven Local Policing Teams, whose boundaries are matched to the nine local authori ...

Central Firearms Unit *

Thames Valley Police Thames Valley Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the Thames Valley, covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. It the largest non-metropolitan police force in England and Wales, coverin ...

Tactical Firearms Team *

West Midlands Police West Midlands Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. The force covers an area of with 2.93million inhabitants, which includes the cities of Birmingham, Coventry, ...

Firearms Operations Unit *

Wiltshire Police Wiltshire Police, formerly known as Wiltshire Constabulary, is the territorial police force responsible for policing the county of Wiltshire (including the Borough of Swindon) in South West England. The force serves 722,000 people over an area ...

Armed Response Group

United States

;Federal Law Enforcement Agencies The federal law enforcement agencies in the United States have tactical units. * United States Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy ** Special Response Force (SRF) * United States Department of Defense ** Special Reaction Teams (SRT) - United States Army Military Police Corps, Master-at-arms (United States Navy), United States Air Force Security Forces and United States Marine Corps Military Police have tactical units. * United States Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security ** U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) *** CBP Office of Field Operations, Office of Field Operations (OFO) **** Special Response Teams (SRT) **** Quick Reaction Force (QRF) - CBP National Capital Region based tactical team *** United States Border Patrol, U.S. Border Patrol **** NSRT, Special Operations Group ***** BORTAC, Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC) ***** Sector BORTAC ***** Border Patrol, Search, Trauma and Rescue (BORSTAR) ** Federal Protective Service (United States), Federal Protective Service (FPS) - Rapid Protection Force (RPF) ** Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) *** Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) - Special Response Teams (SRT) *** Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) - Rapid Response Team (RRT) *** Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) **** Special Response Teams (SRT) ** United States Coast Guard, U.S. Coast Guard ***Deployable Specialized Forces (DSF) **** Law Enforcement Detachments, Tactical Law Enforcement Teams (TACLET) **** Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON) **** Vessel Boarding Security Teams (VBST) ** United States Secret Service, U.S. Secret Service *** Counter Sniper (CS) Unit *** U.S. Secret Service Uniform Division (UD) - Emergency Response Team (ERT) *** Secret Service Counter Assault Team, U.S. Secret Service - Counter Assault Team (CAT) * United States Department of Justice ** Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) - Special Response Teams (SRT) ** Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ***Drug Enforcement Administration#Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Teams, Foreign Deployed Advisory Support Team (FAST) *** DEA Special Response Teams (SRT) ** Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) ***FBI Critical Incident Response Group, Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) **** Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) **** FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit, Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU) **** FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams, Special Weapons and Tactics Teams (FBI SWAT) **** Tactical Helicopter Unit (THU) ** Federal Bureau of Prisons - Special Operations Response Team (SORT) ** United States Marshals Service, U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) *** USMS Special Operations Group (SOG) *** USMS - Special Response Teams (SRT) * United States Department of State, U.S. Department of State ** Diplomatic Security Service - Mobile Security Deployments, Office of Mobile Security Deployments (MSD) * United States Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury **United States Mint Police, U.S. Mint Police - Special Response Teams (SRT) * National Park Service ** Special Response Teams (SRT) *** Grand Canyon Special Response Team *** Yellowstone Special Response Team *** Western Region Special Response Team ** Special Event and Tactical Teams (SETT) *** Midwest Special Event and Tactical Team *** Pacific West Region Special Event and Tactical Team *** Southeast Region Special Event and Tactical Team *** Blue Ridge North Carolina Tactical Tracking Team ** United States Park Police#USPP SWAT Team, U.S. Park Police Special Weapons and Tactics Team ** United States Park Police, New York Field Office Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit ;Independent Federal Agencies * Amtrak Police - Special Operations Unit (SOU) * Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) - Security Protective Service (SPS) - Rapid Response Team (RRT) * Federal Reserve Police - Special Response Team (SRT) * National Security Agency Police (NSAP) - Emergency Response Team (ERT) * Pentagon Force Protection Agency ** United States Pentagon Police, Pentagon Police Directorate - Emergency Response Team (ERT) * United States Capitol Police, U.S. Capitol Police - Containment Emergency Response Team (CERT) ;State Police/Highway Patrol Agencies The State trooper (United States), state police (state troopers) and state patrols, highway patrols of the United States have tactical units. * Alaska State Troopers, Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST) - Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) * Arizona Department of Public Safety Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team * California Highway Patrol - Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team * California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ** Crisis Response Teams (CRT) ** Special Service Unit (SSU) * Colorado Department of Corrections Special Operations and Response Team (SORT) * Connecticut Department of Correction Special Operations Group (SOG) * Connecticut State Police - State Police Tactical Unit (SPTU) * Delaware State Police - Special Operations Response Team (SORT) * Florida Highway Patrol - Tactical Response Teams (TRT) * Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) - Special Operations Teams (SOT) * Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission - Special Operations Group (FWCSOG) * Georgia Counter-Terrorism Task Force (CTTF) (State level multi-agency tactical team) * Georgia State Patrol - Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team * Hawaii Department of Public Safety Sheriff Division - Sheriff's Emergency Response Team (SERT) * Idaho Department of Correction - Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) * Illinois State Police - Tactical Response Team (TRT) * Indiana State Police - Emergency Response Team (ERT) * Kansas Highway Patrol - Special Response Team (SRT) * Kentucky Department of Corrections - Corrections Emergency Response Team (Correctional Emergency Response Team, CERT) * Louisiana State Police - Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team * Maine State Police - Tactical Team * Maine Department of Corrections Special Operations Group * Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police Special Operations Division, Tactical Response Team * Maryland State Police ** Special Tactical Assault Team Element (STATE) ** Tactical Medical Unit (TMU) * Maryland Transportation Authority Police - Special Response Team (SRT) * Maryland Transit Administration Police - Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) Teams/Tactical Unit (formerly Special Response Team - SRT) * Maryland Maritime Tactical Operations Group (MTOG) - Joint federal, state, and local tactical unit specializing in maritime tactical operations * Massachusetts State Police - Special Tactical Operations Team (STOP) * Massachusetts Department of Correction Special Reaction Team (SRT) * Michigan State Police - Emergency Support Team (EST) * Minnesota Department of Corrections Emergency Response Team (ERT) * Minnesota State Patrol Special Response Team (SRT) * Nebraska Department of Correctional Services Special Operations Response Team (SORT) * New Hampshire Division of State Police - Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit * New Jersey State Police - Technical Emergency And Mission Specialists (TEAMS) * New Jersey Transit Police Department, New Jersey Transit Police - Emergency Services Unit (ESU) * New Jersey Transit Police Department, New Jersey Transit Police - Conditions Tactical Unit (CTU) * New Mexico State Police - Tactical Team * New York State Police - Special Operations Response Teams (SORT) * North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) - Special Response Team (SRT) * North Carolina Department of Correction Special Operations Response Team (SORT) * Ohio State Highway Patrol - Special Response Team (SRT) * Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections ** Special Response Teams (SRT) ** Special Tactics and Response (STAR) * Oklahoma Highway Patrol Tactical Team * Oklahoma Department of Corrections - Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT) * Oregon State Police - Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team * Pennsylvania State Police - Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) * Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ** Corrections Rifle Specialist Team (CRST) ** Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) **Corrections Emergency Response Team (CERT) * Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department, Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) – Emergency Services Unit (ESU) * Rhode Island Department of Corrections Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT) * Rhode Island State Police - Tactical Team, WMD Tactical Team * South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) - Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team * Tennessee Highway Patrol - Special Operations Unit (SOU) * Texas Department of Public Safety ** Texas Ranger Division, Ranger Division *** Ranger Recon Teams (RRT) *** Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team * Texas Department of Public Safety - Special Response Teams (SRT) * Texas Parks and Wildlife Department SCOUT Team (Tactical Response) * Utah Highway Patrol - Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) * Vermont State Police - Tactical Services Unit * Virginia State Police - Special Weapons and Tactics Teams (SWAT) * Virginia Department of Corrections - Tactical Support Unit (TSU) * Washington State Patrol - Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) ;Local Police/County Sheriff Agencies The Police in the United States, police departments and Sheriffs in the United States, sheriff's offices of thousands of towns, cities, and counties across the United States have tactical units, which are usually called SWAT, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), Sheriff's Emergency Response Team, (SERT), or Emergency Response Team (ERT). Some examples are below. * Anchorage Police Department Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team * Denver Police Department - Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team
Columbus Indiana Police Department
-Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) * Fairbanks, Alaska, Fairbanks Police Department Special weapons and tactics (SWAT) team * Miami Police Department - Special Threat Response: Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) and Hostage Negotiators * Nassau County Police Department - Bureau of Special Operations (BSO), Emergency Service Unit (ESU) * New York City Police Department - Emergency Service Unit (ESU), Critical Response Command (CRC) and Strategic Response Group (SRG) * Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department - Special Weapons and Tactics Team *LAPD Metropolitan Division, Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan Division - Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team * Oakland Police Department - Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team * Portland Police Bureau - Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) * Tulsa County Sheriff's Office - Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Team * Greensboro Police Department - Special Response Team (SRT) *Hawaii County Police Department - Special Response Team (SRT) *Honolulu Police Department - Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) *Kauai County Police Department - Special Response Team (SRT) *Maui County Police Department - Special Response Team (SRT) *Raleigh Police Department - Selective Enforcement Unit (SEU)

Ukraine

;Security Service of Ukraine * Alpha Group (Ukraine), Alpha Group ;National Guard of Ukraine * 18th Operational Regiment, Mariupol ** 1st Patrol Battalion ** Donbas Battalion, 2nd Special Purpose Battalion "Donbas", Mariupol ** Azov Battalion, Special Purpose Regiment "Azov", Mariupol ** Special Patrol Company, Mariupol *"Scorpion" Special Forces Detachment, Kyiv, tasked with guarding Ukraine's nuclear industry *"Omega" Special Forces Anti-terrorism Detachment, Novi Petrivtsi *"Vega" Special Forces Detachment, Lviv *"Ares" Special Forces Intelligence Detachment, Kharkiv *"Odessa" Special Forces Detachment, Odessa ;National Police of Ukraine *Rapid Operational Response Unit (KORD) ( uk, КОРД (поліція особливого призначення)) Special Tasks Patrol Police (Ukraine), Special Tasks Patrol Police are the Ukrainian volunteer battalions (since 2014), volunteer corps law enforcement units, part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ukraine), Ministry of Internal Affairs. * Artemivsk Battalion * Bogdan Battalion * Chernihiv Battalion * Dnipro-1 Regiment * Donetsk-1 Battalion * Donetsk-2 Battalion * Ivano-Frankivsk Battalion * Kharkiv Police Battalion * Kherson Battalion * Kirovohrad Battalion * Kremenchuk Battalion * Kryvbas Battalion * Kyiv-1 Battalion * Kyiv-2 Battalion * Kyivshchyna Battalion * Luhansk-1 Battalion * Lviv Battalion * Myrnyi Battalion * Myrotvorets Battalion * Poltava Battalion * Shakhtarsk Battalion * Shtorm Battalion * Sich Battalion * Sicheslav Battalion * Skif Battalion * Sumy Battalion * Svityaz Battalion * Svyatyi Mykolai Battalion * Ternopil Battalion * Ukraine Battalion * Vinnytsia Battalion * Zoloti Vorota Battalion

Venezuela

;Venezuelan National Police, Policía Nacional Bolivariana *Unidad de Operaciones Tácticas Especiales (UOTE)

Vietnam

Vietnam People's Public Security *Mobile Police Command, Vietnam Mobile Police (''Cảnh sát cơ động'') - Counter-terrorist and riot police ''Bộ Tư lệnh Cảnh sát Cơ động K20'' (K20 Police Headquarters) *Vietnam Rapid Response Police (''Cảnh sát Phản ứng nhanh''), also known as CS113 - Counter criminal police *Vietnam Special Criminal Investigation Police (''Cảnh sát Hình sự Đặc nhiệm'') - Investigation of special criminal cases

References

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