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Woodstock Police Service - Containment Team [ 45] York Regional Police - Emergency Response Unit (ERU) [ 46] Atlona Police Service, Morden Police Service & Winkler Police Service - Regional Support Tactical Team [ 47] Other units. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) - Nuclear Security Response Team.
e. 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 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] Today, the HRT performs a number of tactical law enforcement and national ...
BORTAC. The Border Patrol Tactical Unit ( BORTAC) is one of two police tactical units in the Special Operations Group, under the United States Border Patrol (USBP) that specialize in counterterrorism, high-risk tactical law enforcement situations, hostage rescue, operating in difficult to access terrain, reconnaissance, and tactical special ...
Police tactical unit. 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. [2] [3] [4] The tasks of a police tactical unit may include executing dangerous search ...
Special Operations Response Teams are a group under the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), a component of the US Department of Justice. The BOP is responsible for maintaining the custody of anyone convicted of committing a federal crime. To achieve this goal, the BOP maintains a number of correctional facilities, which are divided into six ...
The Air Force Office of Special Investigations ( OSI or AFOSI) [ 5] is a U.S. federal law enforcement agency that reports directly to the Secretary of the Air Force. OSI is also a U.S. Air Force field operating agency under the administrative guidance and oversight of the Inspector General of the Department of the Air Force.
In United States terminology, special police can mean: Auxiliary, reserve, or special police; members of volunteer, unpaid or paid, part-time unit of a larger, full-service law enforcement agency (such as the NYPD Auxiliary) Company or private police (see private police in the United States) Fire police.