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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.
SERT contributed to the security forces assigned to protect the 2014 G20 Brisbane summit and 2018 Commonwealth Games. In December 2022, SERT responded to the Wieambilla shootings after general duties police officers had been ambushed on a rural property at Wieambilla resulting in the death of two officers and a civilian. [ 11 ]
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 Team. [3] SWAT teams can be dispatched to aid local law enforcement with limited resources to manage large-scale high-risk incidents. Several factors can determine the deployment of FBI SWAT.
Police Quest (or SWAT) is a series of police simulation video games produced and published by Sierra On-Line between 1987 and 1998. The first five were adventure simulation games, the first three of which were designed by former police officer Jim Walls.
Ready or Not is a 2023 tactical first-person shooter video game developed and published by Ireland-based VOID Interactive and released for Microsoft Windows. Ready or Not follows the operations of a police SWAT team in the fictional American city of Los Sueños in the midst of a violent crime wave.
"The SWAT team's responding to a call from a teenager saying he just killed his mom. When police arrived, the only guns around 17-year-old Rafael Castillo were of the video game FBI investigates ...
Story takes place in New York City as SWAT officer Kurt Wolfe, at first, was assigned to take down renewed Asian gang violence led by ethnic Korean-Americans. But later on, he and his team discover that terrorist forces are planning to pin the blame on the North Korean government for the explosion of a nuclear weapon on American soil.
Since 1978, the Australian Government's National Counter-Terrorism Plan has required each state police force to maintain a specialist counter-terrorist and hostage-rescue unit (Police Tactical Group or SWAT) [6] The unit that now fulfills that role is the Tactical Operations Unit. The Unit has undergone a number of changes over the years.