List of police tactical units
This is a list of active police tactical units. Definition Police tactical units are specialized units of a police force tasked with resolving high risk / critical incidents, including: high risk armed offender / suspect searches / apprehensions including arrest warrants high risk search warrants involving an armed / dangerous offender / suspect siege / barricade incidents involving an armed offender / suspect domestic counter-terrorism incidents such as hostage rescue and / or armed intervention (including units that may be granted authority for overseas operations) In the United States, police tactical units are known by the generic term Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team (other countries have adopted this term). In Australia, the term police tactical group is used for police tactical units. The European Union uses the term special intervention unit for national counter terrorist police tactical units. For military special forces / special operations forces, see list of military special forces units. Afghanistan Interior Ministry Afghan National Civil Order Police Special Support Battalion General Command of Police Special Units (GCPSU) () Crisis Response Unit 222 (CRU 222) Commando Force 333 (CF 333) Afghan Territorial Force 444 (ATF 444) Albania RENEA Shqiponjat FNSH Algeria Sûreté Nationale Police Special Operations Group () Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) Gendarmerie Nationale Special Intervention Detachment (DSI) Argentina Argentine Federal Police Federal Special Operations Group (GEOF) Grupo Especial Uno "GE-1" (Special Group One) Argentine National Gendarmerie Equipo Antiterrorista (Anti-Terrorist Team) Scorpion Group - Formerly the Escuadrón Especial de la Gendarmería Nacional Sección Operaciones Especiales de Monte de Gendarmería Nacional "Groupe Monte" ('National Gendarmarie Jungle Special Operations Section') Unidad Especial de Lucha Contra Narcotraficante (UELCON) Local and other units Hawk Special Operations Brigade (BEOH) - Buenos Aires Provincial Police Special Operations Troops Company (TOE) - Santa Fe Provincial Police Equipo Táctico Especial Recomendado (E.T.E.R.) - Córdoba Provincial Police Albatross Group - Argentine Naval Prefecture Grupo de Respuesta Imediata de Alto Riesgo (GRIAR; 'Immediate High Risk Response Group') - Argentine Naval Prefecture Armenia National Security Service Alpha Group Police of Armenia Police tactical unit Australia Australian Federal Police Specialist Response Group (SRG) New South Wales Police Force Tactical Operations Unit (TOU) Tactical Operations Regional Support (TORS) Public Order and Riot Squad (PORS) Northern Territory Police Territory Response Group (TRG) Queensland Police Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) South Australia Police Special Tasks and Rescue Group (STAR) Tasmania Police Special Operations Group (SOG) Victoria Police Special Operations Group (SOG) Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT) Western Australia Police Tactical Response Group (TRG) New South Wales Corrective Services Security Operations Group (SOG) Western Australia Department of Corrective Services Special Operations Group (SOG) Austria Federal Ministry of the Interior EKO Cobra - Special operations and counterterrorism unit Federal Police WEGA - SWAT team Justizwache (Penitentiary police) Justizwache Einsatzgruppe (JEG) - Penitentiary police SWAT team Azerbaijan Ministry of Internal Affairs OPON Rapid Police Unit Bahamas Royal Bahamas Police Force Security and Intelligence Branch Bangladesh Rapid Action Battalion Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) Anti Terrorism Unit Belarus Militsiya