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  2. FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams - Wikipedia

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    FBI SWAT teams are specially trained to serve warrants and intervene in high-risk incidents such as active shooters, barricaded suspects, or protection for personnel or dignitaries. [1] [5] [6] [7] FBI SWAT teams are trained to a national standard and utilize the same equipment which enables a team to provide assistance to another Field Office ...

  3. Police tactical unit - Wikipedia

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    An FBI SWAT team advancing during an aircraft hijacking training exercise at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi. Police tactical units have similarities to military special forces units such as organization, selection, training, equipment, and operational methodologies.

  4. Hostage Rescue Team - Wikipedia

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    Prior to creating the HRT, Coulson served on one of the FBI SWAT teams, more specifically a sniper team, and he later commanded one of the most active SWAT teams in the FBI. In 1984, Coulson led a team of FBI agents to apprehend the neo-Nazi terrorist Robert Jay Matthews on Whidbey Island; while Matthews died in the ensuing shootout, no FBI ...

  5. List of police tactical units - Wikipedia

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    The police departments and sheriff's offices of thousands of towns, cities, and counties across the United States have tactical units, which are usually called Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), Sheriff's Emergency Response Team, (SERT), or Emergency Response Team (ERT). Some examples are below.

  6. FBI Critical Incident Response Group - Wikipedia

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    Tactical Section – Provides the FBI with a nationwide, three-tiered tactical resolution capability that upon proper authorization can be activated within four hours of notification to address a full spectrum of terrorist or criminal matters. Operations and Training Unit; Hostage Rescue Team; SWAT Operations Unit; Special Weapons and Tactics Teams

  7. Lima SWAT team trains Shawnee police for active shooters

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    Jul. 3—SHAWNEE TOWNSHIP — The Lima Police Department SWAT team conducted active shooter drills with the Shawnee Township Police and Fire Departments Wednesday at Shawnee High School. The ...

  8. Chatham County Sheriff's Office and Police Dept. expand SWAT ...

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    As soon as the MOUs are signed, the county SWAT unit will hold a tryout, which consists of a physical fitness test, including push-ups, sit-ups, a run, an obstacle course and a shooting test.

  9. SWAT - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, a SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team is a generic term for a police tactical unit. SWAT units are generally trained, equipped, and deployed to resolve "high-risk situations", often those regular police units are not trained or equipped to handle, such as shootouts , standoffs , raids , hostage-takings , and terrorism .