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The Special Security Team (特殊警備隊, Tokushu-keibi-tai) is a police tactical unit of the Japan Coast Guard, based at the Osaka Special Security Station (大阪特殊警備基地). The acronym of its Kanji name has already been used by other units [Note 1], the abbreviation "SST" is used for this team. [2] [3] [4]
The Special Assault Team (特殊急襲部隊, Tokushu Kyūshū Butai, SAT) is a police tactical unit maintained by individual Japanese prefectural police forces and supervised by the National Police Agency. [1] It is a national-level counterterrorism unit that cooperates with territorial-level Anti-Firearms Squads and Counter-NBC Terrorism ...
Edmonton Police Service – Tactical Unit; Estevan Police Service – Containment / Warrant Entry Team (CWET) ... (MAAT) – Osaka [68] Assault Response Team ...
Within their security departments or bureaus, each PPH maintains Riot Police Units (機動隊, kidō-tai), which serve as a rapid reaction force capable of fulfilling riot police, police tactical unit, and search and rescue roles. Full-time riot police can also be augmented by regular police trained in riot duties. [19]
When rural prefectural police are struggling with an investigation, the NPA orders the TMPD or Osaka Prefectural Police to dispatch advisors. [13] This custom evolved into the Special Investigation Dispatch Task Force ( 特殊班派遣部隊 , Tokushuhan-haken-butai ) as a formal institution of the NPA, being made up of experienced detectives ...
Osaka Prefectural Police Riot Police Unit officers arresting a suspect during training. A police tactical unit (PTU) [a] is a specialized police unit trained and equipped to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of ordinary law enforcement units because of the level of violence (or risk of violence) involved.
Around 50 khaki-clad men riding atop a black armoured truck approached an abandoned office building on the outskirts of Paris one spring morning and blew open a second-storey window with an ...
"Zero" Company of the 2nd Riot Police Unit of the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters (one of the predecessors of the Special Assault Teams) were called, which was the first case in the history of Japanese Police Tactical Units. After a 42-hour standoff (in which Umekawa and the hostages had barely slept), they managed to infiltrate the ...