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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. Hostage Rescue Team - Wikipedia

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    The team's final certification exercise, code-named Operation Equus Red, was held in October 1983 at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. During the exercise, the HRT, a local SWAT team, and a United States Department of Energy Nuclear Emergency Search Team (NEST) were tasked with assaulting a terrorist stronghold. The "terrorist" group was ...

  4. List of police tactical units - Wikipedia

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    Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan Division - Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team; Maui County Police Department - Special Response Team (SRT) Miami Police Department - Special Threat Response: Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) and Hostage Negotiators

  5. 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.

  6. Special Operations Response Team - Wikipedia

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    In 1991, Cuban inmates at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Talladega, Alabama rioted and took several hostages. The BOP responded immediately by deploying several SORTs, and received additional assistance from the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), along with several regional FBI SWAT teams. As the situation grew more tense, the order was ...

  7. Federal law enforcement agencies defy presidents and Congress ...

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    But they were federal operations, conducted by agents and task forces with four federal law enforcement agencies — the FBI, the ATF, the DEA and the U.S. Marshals Service — in which the use of ...

  8. FBI SWAT team on the hunt for ex-National Guardsman ... - AOL

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    In a statement, the FBI's field office in Newark, New Jersey, said FBI Newark SWAT, Jamesburg police and the Middlesex County Prosecutors Office "are currently searching for a man named Gregory ...

  9. 16 SWAT team members injured in explosion at FBI training ...

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    Sixteen members of the Orange County Sheriff's Department SWAT team were injured Wednesday afternoon in an explosion at an FBI training facility in Irvine.