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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.
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.
FBI Special Weapons and Tactics (FBI SWAT) Teams are specialized part-time SWAT teams of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI maintains SWAT teams at each of its 56 field offices throughout the United States. [3] Each team is composed of a varying number of certified SWAT operators, dependent on office size and funding.
In total, the county SWAT team currently consists of more than 30 members, including techs, hostage negotiators, entry teams, sniper teams.
WASHINGTON − An FBI SWAT team smashed in the front door of an Atlanta family’s home in the pre-dawn hours of an October morning in 2017, detonated a flashbang grenade and pointed guns at the ...
A GPD investigation into its SWAT team raiding a local real estate office failed to take a hard look at the use of such heavy-handed tactics. Release full footage, conduct real review of SWAT team ...
The SWAT series then continued as a real-time strategy game, and then three first-person tactical shooters similar to the Rainbow Six series. All mainline entries in the series featured the LAPD SWAT and endorsements from the LAPD [citation needed] except SWAT 4, which was set in a fictional East Coast city.
One team member required surgery for a leg injury, while many others had ringing in their ears after the blast. 16 SWAT team members hospitalized after explosion during training Skip to main content