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FBI SWAT operators conducting target shooting training. 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.
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.
The A-Team is widely considered to have the highest operational tempo of any US tactical team, sometimes performing as many as 800–1,000 missions per year. The team can be called upon to support any unit within the NYPD, federal law enforcement agencies or outside police departments upon official request for tactical entries.
The Dayton Police Department SWAT Team will be conducting a joint training with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team on Thursday.
The leader of a SORT team can be of any rank, SORT teams are composed of 15+ personnel from various departments within the institution. Each team will have a number of specialist personnel assigned to it, such as: An EMT; A certified firearms instructor; A rappel master; A security specialist/locksmith; A blueprint expert; A sniper/spotter team
The "muscle car" team was an ad hoc contingent drawn from special agents working at a local Secret Service office, as opposed to those regularly assigned to protective duties. They were instructed, in the event of an attack against the convoy, to lay down a barrage of suppressive fire against the source of the attack so as to allow the ...
In mid-January, the federal agency's Special Response Team (SRT) trained at the St. John's Parish SWAT center near New Orleans about a month ahead of Super Bowl LIX and two weeks after the ISIS ...