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  2. Swatting - Wikipedia

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    An FBI SWAT team during training. Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address.

  3. 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.

  4. FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of police tactical units - Wikipedia

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    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 [29] Coordenadoria de Recursos Especiais (CORE) – is a paramilitary police unit within the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State [ 30 ]

  6. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    This slang for policemen, especially hawaladars, ("Havāladāra", meaning constable in Marathi) came to be from the 1975 Dada Kondke film Pandu Hawaldar. Panduri Serbo-Croatian, slang for a group of police officers. The meaning derived from the Latin word banderium, in which the word banderia also came from. They were military units created by ...

  7. 16 SWAT officers hospitalized after blast at training ... - AOL

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    An explosion during an indoor training exercise Wednesday sent 16 members of Southern California's Orange County Sheriff’s Department SWAT team to the hospital, with one person requiring surgery ...

  8. Blasphemy law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of Maryland's blasphemy statutes suggests that even into the 1930s, the First Amendment was not recognized as preventing states from passing such laws. An 1879 codification of Maryland statutes prohibited blasphemy: Art. 72, sec. 189. If any person, by writing or speaking, shall blaspheme or curse God, or shall write or utter any ...

  9. LAPD Metropolitan Division - Wikipedia

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    When Metropolitan Division was reorganized into platoons, SWAT was given the designation of "D" Platoon, and formally adopted the acronym "SWAT". [25] The first significant deployment of LAPD's SWAT unit was on December 9, 1969, in a four-hour confrontation with members of the Black Panthers. The Panthers eventually surrendered, with three ...