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BORTAC headquarters is co-located with its training unit at Biggs Army Airfield, within Fort Bliss U.S. Army base in El Paso, Texas. The BORTAC training unit is currently responsible for conducting all CBP tactical team training. In addition, the unit also provides specialist training to other Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
In 1999, a BORSTAR training academy opened in Tucson, Arizona, and in 2001, the unit added rescue dogs. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2007, BORSTAR was placed under the command of the newly formed Special Operations Group (SOG) together with the Border Patrol Tactical Unit BORTAC .
The P-3 LRT aircraft are high-endurance, all-weather, tactical turbo-prop aircraft used by CBP Air and Marine to intercept and track airborne smuggling threats. With the escalation of terrorist threats and the commitment of Department of Defense P-3 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft in other regions of the world, AMO P-3s have assumed a ...
TESS was an advanced weapons training system developed for the AH-64 Apache to support force-on-force and force-on-target live training at U.S. Army Combat Training Centers (CTCs), Aviation Home Stations, and deployed locations. [2] TESS integrates with aircraft and ground vehicles to provide collective opposing force participation in live ...
Peel Regional Police – Tactical and Rescue Unit [38] Service de police de la Ville de Québec – Groupe Tactique d'intervention; Regina Police Service – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team [39] Royal Newfoundland Constabulary – Tactics and Rescue Unit (TRU) [40] Saskatoon Police Service – Tactical Support Unit (TSU)
The Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) is the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) elite tactical unit. [9] [10] The HRT was formed to provide a full-time federal law enforcement tactical capability to respond to major terrorist incidents throughout the United States. [9]
Operation Snowcap (1987–1995), launched in the spring of 1987, was a counter-narcotics operation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), BORTAC (U.S. Border Patrol Tactical Unit) and military/police forces in nine Latin American countries.
Coast Guard petty officers on a VIPR team at the Portland International Marine Terminal, Maine. A Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response team, sometimes Visible Intermodal Protection and Response (VIPR) is a Transportation Security Administration program.