Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

Interior Ministry

Interior Minister of Afghanistan

The Ministry of the Interior is responsible for Afghanistan's police forces, other internal security forces, and Afghanistan's counter-narcotics force.- Interior minister :...

• Special Narcotics Force
  Afghan Special Narcotics Force
  The Afghan Special Narcotics Force is in charge of counter narcotics operations in Afghanistan. It began at the end of 2003.The ASNF operates under the control of the Afghan Ministry of the Interior. All of its operations are sanctioned by the President and Minister of the Interior.-See also:*...
  
  
• Afghan National Civil Order Police Special Support Battalion

Afghan National Civil Order Police

Afghan National Civil Order Police is a special police unit developed in July 2006 by Colonel Jack Stankiewicz, US Army, Police Reformation Directorate, CSTC-A of the law enforcement agency in Afghanistan.- Role :...

 Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

• Shqiponjat (The Eagles)
• Immediate Intervention Forces - FNSH (Forcat e Ndërhyrjes së Shpejtë)
• Port Authority Security Force
• RENEA
  RENEA
  The Reparti i Neutralizimit të Elementit të Armatosur , commonly known by its acronym RENEA, is the main Albanian counter-terrorist and critical incident response unit. The force was constituted the early 1990s in response to the growing crime levels in the country after the fall of communism...
  
  

 Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

• Groupe d'Intervention Spécial
  Groupe d'Intervention Spécial
  The Special Intervention Group is a special forces group created in Algeria in 1987, initially with 300 members.In addition to the commando-style typical training course of Western forces like the French COS and the Russian Spetnaz they also received training on specialized topics like tactical...
  
   (GIS)

 Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

Argentine Federal Police

Policía Federal Argentina

The Policía Federal Argentina is a police force of the Argentine federal government. The PFA has detachments throughout the country, but its main responsibility is policing the Federal District of Buenos Aires...

• Federal Special Operations Group
  Grupo Especial de Operaciones Federales (Argentina)
  The Grupo Especial de Operaciones Federales is a special operations division of the Policía Federal Argentina trained to strategically perform counterterrorist and counternarcotics missions...
  
    (GEOF)
• Hawk Special Operations Brigade
  Brigada Especial Operativa Halcón
  The Brigada Especial Operativa Halcón is a special operations division of the Buenos Aires Provincial Police in Argentina....
  
   (BEOH)
• Special Operations Troops Company
  Compañía de Tropas de Operaciones Especiales
  Compañía de Tropas de Operaciones Especiales is the premier special operations force of the Santa Fe Province Police, Argentina....
  
   (TOE)
• Albatross Group
  Grupo Albatros
  The Grupo Albatros is a special operations service of the Prefectura Naval Argentina. Located in the province of Buenos Aires, it conducts river and maritime operations in the lakes and rivers and anything close to the coast line...
  
  
• Scorpion Group
  Grupo Alacrán
  The Grupo Alacrán is a special operations service of the Argentine National Gendarmerie, often referred as the Equipo Antiterrorista de Gendarmería . The division is headquartered in Evita City and responds to high-risk and counterterrorist situations throughout Argentina, but primarily in the...
  
  

 Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

Austrian Federal Police

• Einsatzkommando Cobra
  EKO Cobra
  EKO Cobra is Austria's foremost counter-terrorism special operations tactical unit. It is not part of the Austrian Federal Police but is directly under the control of the Austrian Federal Ministry for the Interior.-History:...
  
   (EKO Cobra)

 Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

Australian Federal Police

Australian Federal Police

The Australian Federal Police is the federal police agency of the Commonwealth of Australia. Although the AFP was created by the amalgamation in 1979 of three Commonwealth law enforcement agencies, it traces its history from Commonwealth law enforcement agencies dating back to the federation of...

• Specialist Response and Security
  Specialist Response and Security
  The Specialist Response and Security Team is the Special Operations and Police Tactical Group of the Australian Federal Police having responsibility for tactical and specialist operations within the Australian Capital Territory...
  
   (SRS)
• Operational Response Group
  Operational Response Group
  The Operational Response Group is a police tactical group of the Australian Federal Police and part of the AFP's International Deployment Group able to support the AFP in both National and International tactical operations..-History:...
  
   (ORG)

New South Wales Police Force

• Tactical Operations Unit (TOU)
• State Protection Support Unit
  State Protection Group
  The State Protection Group is part of the Specialist Operations division of the New South Wales Police Force, having been established in 1991 to deal with extraordinary policing responses. The SPG directly supports police in high-risk incidents such as sieges with specialised tactical,...
  
   (SPSU)
• Public Order and Riot Squad
  Public Order and Riot Squad
  The Public Order and Riot Squad is the full-time 'riot squad' of the New South Wales Police Force. PORS is within the command of Field Operations under the Major Events and Incidents Group which is responsible for planning for major events such as Operation Vikings, APEC, the World Youth Day and...
  
   (PORS) - full-time riot squad
• Public Order and Operational Support Group
  Public Order and Riot Squad
  The Public Order and Riot Squad is the full-time 'riot squad' of the New South Wales Police Force. PORS is within the command of Field Operations under the Major Events and Incidents Group which is responsible for planning for major events such as Operation Vikings, APEC, the World Youth Day and...
  
   (POOSG) - part-time riot squad

New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

 Department of Corrective Services

Department of Corrective Services

Corrective Services NSW is an agency of the Government of New South Wales that provides custodial and community-based services as an important element of the criminal justice system...

• Hostage Response Group
  Hostage Response Group
  The Hostage Response Group is the tactical and special operations unit of the New South Wales Department of Corrective Services.Across New South Wales Corrective Services facilities have their own Immediate Action Teams , and larger 'on-call' Regional Security Units and the K9 units for major...
  
   (HRG)

Northern Territory Police

Northern Territory Police

The Northern Territory Police is the police body that has legal jurisdiction over the Northern Territory of Australia. This police service has 1302 gazetted police positions made up of 55 Senior Sergeants, 200 Sergeants, 741 Constables, 159 Auxiliaries, and 84 Aboriginal Community Police Officers...

• Territory Response Group
  Territory Response Group
  The Territory Response Group is the Police Tactical Group of the Northern Territory Police. Part of the Territory Response Section the TRG is tasked to provide general and specialist support to other units of the Northern Territory Police...
  
   (TRG)

Queensland Police

Queensland Police

The Queensland Police Service is the law enforcement agency responsible for policing the Australian state of Queensland. In 1990, the Queensland Police Force was officially renamed the Queensland Police Service and the old motto of "Firmness with Courtesy" was changed to "With Honour We Serve"...

• Special Emergency Response Team
  Special Emergency Response Team (Queensland)
  Special Emergency Response Team is the Police Tactical Group of the Queensland Police, Australia. SERT is part of the Specialist Response Branch within the Operations Support Command which incorporates the Explosive Operations Response Team and the Negotiator Coordination Unit...
  
   (SERT)
• Public Safety Response Team (PSRT)

Queensland Department of Corrective Services

• Tactical Response Unit (TRU)

South Australia Police

South Australia Police

The South Australia Police is the police force of the Australian state of South Australia. It is an agency of the Government of South Australia within the South Australian Department of Justice.-History:...

• Special Tasks and Rescue
  Special Tasks and Rescue
  Special Tasks and Rescue is the Police Tactical Group of the South Australia Police.-History:Formed on 30 November 1978 the South Australian Police STAR Group was a rationalisation of specialist resources into one command/unit. Specialist units had existed prior to 1978 within SAPOL to deal with...
  
   (STAR)

Tasmania Police

Tasmania Police

Tasmania Police is the police force of the Australian state of Tasmania. Established in 1899, the force has over 1,200 officers policing Tasmania's population of about half a million people.-Structure:...

• Special Operations Group
  Special Operations Group of the Tasmania Police
  The Special Operations Group is the Police Tactical Group of the Australian Tasmania Police. SOG is a highly trained group within the Tasmania Police Service, made up of current serving Tasmania Police members from varied sections and branches.-Mission:...
  
   (SOG)
• Public Order Response Team (PORT)

Tasmania Corrective Services

• Tactical Response Group (TRG)

Victoria Police

Victoria Police

Victoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of Victoria, Australia. , the Victoria Police has over 12,190 sworn members, along with over 400 recruits, reservists and Protective Service Officers, and over 2,900 civilian staff across 393 police stations.-Early history:The Victoria Police...

• Special Operations Group
  Victoria Police Special Operations Group
  The Special Operations Group is the police tactical group of the Victoria Police.-History:The Special Operations Group was formed in 1977. Its main function was to provide a response to politically motivated and criminal terrorist activity. Today, this remains the number one priority for the...
  
   (SOG)
• Critical Incident Response Team
  Critical Incident Response Team
  Critical incident response teams are part of the Victorian Police Force Response Unit Command.- Overview :The critical incident response teams respond to incidents that wouldn’t warrant the attendance of the Special Operations Group but for which the general duties police are not trained or...
  
   (CIRT)
• Public Order Response Team (PORT)

Western Australia Police

Western Australia Police

The Western Australia Police services an area of 2.5 million square kilometres, the world's largest non-federated area of jurisdiction. In 2008, its 7,526 employees included 5,647 police officers.-History:-Early history:...

• Tactical Response Group (TRG)

 Bahamas,The

The Bahamas

The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...

Royal Bahamas Police Force

Royal Bahamas Police Force

The Royal Bahamas Police Force is the national law enforcement agency of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The RBPF is located within the portfolio of the Ministry of National Security. The police force was established on 1 March 1840. The force is headquartered on the hill on East Street, New...

• Security and Intelligence Branch

  Bangladesh

Bangladesh

Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

Bangladesh Police

Bangladesh Police

The Bangladesh Police is the main law enforcement agency of Bangladesh. It is administered under the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Government of Bangladesh. It plays a crucial role in maintaining peace and enforcement of law and order within the whole of Bangladesh...

• SWAT (Bangladesh)
  SWAT (Bangladesh)
  SWAT is an elite tactical unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Bangladesh. They operate under the Detective Branch of DMP. Eventually, the newly formed DMP unit SWAT is going to be expanded outwards forming one or more battalions...
  
  
• Rapid Action Battalion
  Rapid Action Battalion
  Rapid Action Battalion or RAB is an elite anti-crime and anti-terrorism unit of Bangladesh Police constituted amending the Armed Police Battalion Ordinance, 1979. Under the command of Inspector General of Police it consists of members of Bangladesh Police, Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy,...
  
  

 Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

Belgian Federal Police

Federal Police (Belgium)

The Federal Police carry out specialized police and investigation missions that cover more than one region in Belgium. The federal police have approximately 12,500 personnel that provide support units for the local police and the federal police itself....

• Federal Police Special Units
  Federal Police Special Units
  The Directorate of Special Units is the Belgian Federal Police's Counter-Terrorism unit. The DSU is deployed in cases of terrorism, kidnappings, hostage taking and other forms of serious crime. In major terrorist operations outside the country, the DSU would be replaced by the Belgian Army Special...
  
   (former SIE/ESI)

 Bolivia

Bolivia

Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...

Bolivian Police Force

• Polivalente
• Fuerza especial de lucha contra el narcotráfico- FELCN (Bolivian anti-narcotics force)

 Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

Bosnian Police Force

• The State Investigation and Protection Agency - SIPA
  State Investigation and Protection Agency
  The State Investigation and Protection Agency is the official state police agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. SIPA is under the direct administration of the Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
  
  

 Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

Military Police

• BOPE - Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (Special Police Operations Battalion), State of Rio de Janeiro.
• COE - Comandos e Operações Especiais (Commandos and Special Operations)
• CAESA - Companhia Independente de Ações Especiais do Semi-Árido (Company Independent Special Shares of the Semi-Arid)
• CPAC - Companhia de Polícia de Ações em Caatinga (Police Company of share Caatinga)
• CIAC - Companhia Independente de Ações no Cerrado
• CAESG - Companhia Ações Especiais no Sudoeste e Gerais
• CAEMA - Companhia de Ações Especiais em Mata Atlântica
• CAEL - Companhia de Ações Especiais do Litoral
• CIOSAC - Companhia Independente de Operações e Sobrevivência na Área de Caatinga

Federal Police

• COT - Comando de Operações Táticas (Tactical Operations Command)

Civil Police

Civil Police (Brazil)

In Brazil, the Civil Police is the name of the investigative state police forces.The Civil Police are agencies of the public administration of the federative units of Brazil, whose function is, in accordance with article 144 of the Federal Constitution of 1988, the exercise of the public security...

• CORE - Coordenadoria de Recursos Especiais
  CORE (Brazil)
  Coordenadoria de Recursos Especiais , mostly known by its acronym CORE, is a national SWAT unit within the Civil Police, which originated from the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...
  
   (Special Resources Direction), State of Rio de Janeiro.
• GARRA - Grupo Armado de Repressão a Roubos e Assaltos (Robbery and Assault Repression Armed Group), State of São Paulo.
• GOE - Grupo de Operações Especiais
  GOE (Brazil)
  Grupamento de Operações Especiais , mostly known by its acronym GOE, is the elite arm of the Civil Police of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is comparable to Rio de Janeiro's CORE....
  
   (Special Operations Group), State os São Paulo.

 Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

• SOBT
  SOBT
  The SOBT- is a Bulgarian Special Counter-terrorist Unit that is similar to the GSG 9, Alpha Group and other counter-terrorist units. It is expert in unconventional warfare and special operations...
  
  

Bulgarian Gendarmerie

• Counter-Terrorist Squads

 Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police , literally ‘Royal Gendarmerie of Canada’; colloquially known as The Mounties, and internally as ‘The Force’) is the national police force of Canada, and one of the most recognized of its kind in the world. It is unique in the world as a national, federal,...

• Emergency Response Team (RCMP)  / Groupe Tactique d'Intervention (GTI)

 Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

• Carabineros de Chile
  Carabineros de Chile
  thumb|250px|Carabineros de Chile, patrolling a street in [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]]The Carabiniers of Chile, are the uniformed Chilean national police force and gendarmerie, created on April 27, 1927. Their mission is to maintain order and create public respect for the laws of the country...
  
  
  • GOPE - Grupo de Operaciones Policiales Especiales
    Grupo de Operaciones Policiales Especiales (Chile)
    The Grupo de Operaciones Policiales Especiales is the grouping of commands of the Police of Chile which carry out high-risk police operations throughout the country, including bomb disposal, location and tracking of bombs and explosives, rescuing people or bodies from places of difficult access,...
    
     (Police Special Operations Group)
• Chilean Investigation Police
  Chilean Investigation Police
  Investigations Police of Chile is the civil police of Chile. Founded in 1933, it is one of two Chilean police bodies, along with Carabineros de Chile. The PDI is the first collaborator of the Public Ministry of Chile in criminal Investigation....
  
   (Policía de Investigaciones de Chile)
  • ERTA - Equipo de Reacción Táctica Antinarcóticos (Antinarcotics Tactical Response Team)
• Gendarmería de Chile (Prison Service)
  • SOT - Sección de Operaciones Tácticas (Tactical Operations Section)

 China, People's Republic of

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

People's Armed Police

People's Armed Police

The People's Armed Police , officially Chinese People's Armed Police Force is a paramilitary or gendarmerie force primarily responsible for civilian policing and fire rescue duties in the People's Republic of China, as well as provide support to PLA during wartime.In contrast to public security...

 (CAPF)

• Snow Leopard Commando Unit (SWCU)
• Immediate Action Unit
  Immediate Action Unit
  The Immediate Action Unit is the premier counter-terrorism unit of the People's Republic of China.Little is known about the Immediate Action Unit except that it is an elite People's Armed Police unit rather than being drawn from the People's Liberation Army...
  
   (IAU)
• Provincial Special Police Groups
  Special Police Unit
  Special Police Units are SWAT units of the Chinese People's Armed Police at the provincial and municipal level...
  
   (SPG)

Municipal Public Security Police Bureaus

• Beijing SWAT
  Beijing SWAT
  The Beijing Special Weapons and Tactics Unit is a police unit in the People's Republic of China that deals with incidents beyond the capabilities of normal patrol officers such as hostage situations, high risk warrants and riot control...
  
   Unit

 Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

• Airport Security Unit
  Airport Security Unit (Hong Kong)
  The Airport Security Unit formed in 1977, is a special force of the Hong Kong Police Force tasked with the security of the Hong Kong International Airport....
  
   (ASU)
• Counter Terrorism Response Unit (CTRU)
• Special Duties Unit
  Special Duties Unit
  The Special Duties Unit is an elite paramilitary tactical unit of the Hong Kong Police Force. Established in July 1974, it is a sub-division of the Police Tactical Unit...
  
   (SDU)
• VIP Protection Unit
  VIP Protection Unit
  The VIP Protection Unit otherwise known as G4 is a branch of the Hong Kong Police Force. The original name had been given to the unit since it is the 4th division of the former Royal Hong Kong Police Force's Special Branch division...
  
   (G4)
• Surveillance Support Unit (Hit Team)

 Macau

Macau

Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

Macau Public Security Police Force

• Unidade Táctica De Intervenção Da Polícia (Police Intervention Tactical Unit, UTIP, a.k.a. "Special Police")
  • Grupo de Operações Especiais (Special Operation Group, GOE, a.k.a. "Macau's Flying Tigers")

 Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

Colombian National Police

Colombian National Police

The National Police of Colombia is the national police force of Colombia. Although the National Police is not part of the Military of Colombia , it constitutes along with them the "Public Force" and is also controlled by the Ministry of Defense. They are the largest police force in Colombia...

• JUNGLAS
• SIJIN
• GAULA
• C.T.I
• DAS
• Anti-drugs command
• Anti-disturbs command

 Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

• Unidad Especial de Intervención (UEI) - attached to the Directorate of Intelligence and National Security (DIS) of Ministry of the Presidency.
• Servicio Policial de Intervención Immediata (SPII) attached to the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) from the Judicial Branch.
• Unidad Especial de Apoyo (UEA)from Ministry of Public Security (MSP)
• Unidad de Intervención Policial (crowd management unit/ anti-riot) UIP (MSP)
• Unidad Tactica Policial - MSP
• Unidad Canina - MSP
• Policia Antidrogas - PCD (MSP)

 Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

Law Enforcement

Law enforcement in Croatia

Law enforcement in Croatia is the responsibility of the Police , which is a public service of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, carrying out certain tasks, the so called, police activities, laid down by law....

• Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit

 Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

• URNA (Útvar rychlého nasazení - Rapid Reaction Unit)
• ZJ (Zasahova jednotka) - 8 regional fulltime units)

 Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

Rigspolitiets Aktionsstyrke

• Politiets Aktionsstyrke
  Politiets Aktionsstyrke
  Politiets Aktionsstyrke is the special forces unit of the Danish police.AKS is a national SWAT unit. It is meant to handle extraordinarily difficult or life-threatening criminal situations, such as terrorism, hostage situations, and kidnapping. It also deals with emergency rescue situations that...
  
  (Special unit of the Police)

 Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

Estonian Police

Estonian Police

The Estonian Police are the law enforcement agency of Estonia.- Structure :They are under the supervision of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which supervises five central agencies – the Police Board, the Security Police Board, the Police and Border Guard Board and the Rescue Board...

• K-Commando
  K-Commando
  K-Commando is a special unit of the Estonian Criminal Police, created in the 1991. It is a special unit of the Estonian police force similar in function to the SWAT teams in the U.S., and is responsible for such issues as managing hostage situations, riot management, high-risk raids and...
  
   (Special unit of the Central Crime Police)

 Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

Finnish Police

Law enforcement in Finland

Law enforcement in Finland falls under the jurisdiction of the Finnish Police, a national police agency.The Finnish Police is divided into 24 local departments and three national agencies...

• Karhuryhmä
  Karhuryhmä
  The Karhu Team , officially known as Helsingin poliisilaitoksen erityistoimintayksikkö is a special operations and counter-terrorism unit of the Finnish police, equivalent to SWAT teams in the United States...
  
   (Special unit of the East-Finland Police)
  • Valo-79 (Special unit of the North-Finland Police)
• Finnish Border Guard
  Finnish Border Guard
  The Finnish Border guard is the national security agency responsible for enforcing the security of Finland's borders...
  
  
  • Border Guard Readiness Unit

 France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

GendarmerieGroupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN)

• Pelotons d'Intervention Interrégionaux de la Gendarmerie Nationale (PI2G)

National Police

• Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion
  Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion
  Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion or RAID is, like the GIPN, a Special Operations tactical unit of the National Police with more manpower and equipment...
  
   (RAID)
• Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale (GIPN)

Préfecture de Police de Paris

• Brigade de recherche et d'intervention
  Brigade de recherche et d'intervention
  The Brigades de Recherche et d'Intervention , often called "Anti-Gang Brigades", are elite police specials units of the French Ministry of the Interior ....
  
   (BRI)

Joint unit

• Groupement interarmées d'hélicoptères (GIH, joint air force and army light aviation helicopters unit for specialized units of Gendarmerie and Police)

 Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

Bundespolizei (Federal Police)

German Federal Police

The Bundespolizei is a uniformed federal police force in Germany. It is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of the Interior...

• GSG 9
  GSG 9
  The GSG 9 der Bundespolizei , is the elite counter-terrorism and special operations unit of the German Federal Police.-History and name:...
  
  
• ASSIK

German police special response units

• Spezialeinsatzkommando
  Spezialeinsatzkommando
  Spezialeinsatzkommandos are the special response units of the German state police forces. German SEKs are full-time units whose members do not perform any other duties, and are essentially the equivalent of American SWAT Teams...
  
  (SEK)
• Mobiles Einsatzkommando (MEK)

Zollkriminalamt

Zollkriminalamt

The German Customs Investigation Bureau in Cologne and its investigation offices are federal agencies that fall under the German Finance Ministry...

 (German Customs Investigation Bureau)

• ZUZ
  Zentrale Unterstützungsgruppe Zoll
  The Zentrale Unterstützungsgruppe Zoll is the SWAT unit of the German Customs Service and subordinate to the German Customs Investigation Bureau .-History:...
  
  

 Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

Greek Police

Greek Police

The Hellenic Police is the national police force of Greece. It is a very large agency, its responsibilities ranging from road traffic control to counter-terrorism....

• Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (EKAM)

Greek Coast Guard

Hellenic Coast Guard

The Hellenic Coast Guard is the national coast guard of Greece. Like most other coast guards, it is a paramilitary organization that can support the Hellenic Navy in wartime, but resides under separate civilian control in times of peace...

• Special Operations Teams (OEA)

 Iceland

Iceland

Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...

Icelandic Police

Icelandic Police

The Icelandic National Police is the main police force of Iceland. It is responsible for law enforcement on all Icelandic territories except at sea where the Icelandic Coast Guard enforces the law. The two services assist each other as needed.- History :...

• Víkingasveitin
  Víkingasveitin
  Víkingasveitin , officially Sérsveit ríkislögreglustjórans , is Iceland's elite counter-terrorism unit, specializing in various types of armed and unarmed infantry combat. It is in many ways modeled on the Norwegian Delta counter-terrorist unit with which it conducts many exercises, both in Norway...
  
   (Viking Squad / Special Operations Unit of the National Commissioner)

 India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

Indian Police Service

Indian Police Service

The Indian Police Service , simply known as Indian Police or IPS, is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India...

• Rapid Action Force
  Rapid Action Force
  The Rapid Action Force is a specialised wing of the Indian CRPF . It was established on 11 December 1991 and became fully operational in October 1992, to deal with riots & related unrest...
  
  
• Special Operations Group (India)
  Special Operations Group (India)
  The 1000-strong Special Operations Group, an elite anti-militancy force of the Jammu and Kashmir Police. The Special Operations Group was raised in 1994 with the idea of 'involving the passive Jammu and Kashmir Police in the anti-terrorist activities and giving a local face to these...
  
  
• Anti Terrorist Squad (India)
• Force One
  Force One
  The Force One is an elite commando force, which is a specialised counter terrorism unit to guard the Mumbai metropolitan area, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, formed by Government of Maharashtra on the lines of National Security Guards...
  
  

Protective Service Unit

• Special Protection Group
  Special Protection Group
  The Special Protection Group is the executive protection agency of the Government of India. It is responsible for the protection of the Prime Minister of India, other top officials, and their immediate families. The force was established in 1985 after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. It is one...
  
  

 Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...

Indonesian National Police / POLRI

• Brigade Mobil
  Brigade Mobil SOF
  Brigade Mobil is one of the oldest Indonesian National Police special operations force units.-History:Formed in late 1945, a special corps namely 'Pasukan Polisi Istimewa' was formed with the assigned tasks of disarming remnants of the Japanese Imperial Army and protecting the chief of state and...
  
   (National Police Special Operations Force, Police Commandos, Special Response team) POLRI
  • Detachment 88 (Police Special Counter-terrorist force)

 Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

Irish Police

Garda Síochána

, more commonly referred to as the Gardaí , is the police force of Ireland. The service is headed by the Commissioner who is appointed by the Irish Government. Its headquarters are located in the Phoenix Park in Dublin.- Terminology :...

• Emergency Response Unit
  Emergency Response Unit (Garda)
  The Emergency Response Unit of the Garda Síochána is a specialist armed intervention unit under the Special Detective Unit, formed to deal with situations that cannot be handled by regular Garda officers.-History:...
  
   (ERU)

 Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

Israel Police

Israel Police

The Israel Police is the civilian police force of Israel. As with most other police forces in the world, its duties include crime fighting, traffic control, maintaining public safety, and counter-terrorism...

• Yasam
  Yasam
  The Yasam is the Israel Police Special Patrol Unit , a police unit dedicated to continuous security, riot and crowd control and other special operations....
  
  
• Gideonim
• Yagal
• Public Transportation (Yoav, Horev, and Nit'zan)

Israel Border Police

Israel Border Police

The Israel Border Police is the gendarmerie and border security branch of the Israel National Police. It is also commonly known by its Hebrew abbreviation Magav , meaning border guard, whilst its members are colloquially known as Magavnikim . Border Guard is often used as the official name of the...

• Yamam
  Yamam
  The Yamam ) is an elite Border police, not civilian Police counter-terrorism unit in Israel. The Yamam is capable of both hostage-rescue operations and offensive take-over raids against targets in civilian areas...
  
  
• Yamas
• Yamag
• Matilan

Israel Prison Service

Israel Prison Service

The Israel Prison Service , commonly known in Israel by its acronym Shabas , is the prison service of Israel. It is responsible for maintaining civilian prisons in Israel, as well as detention centers for security prisoners. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Security...

• Nachshon
• Dror
• Masada

 Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

Italian Carabinieri

Carabinieri

The Carabinieri is the national gendarmerie of Italy, policing both military and civilian populations, and is a branch of the armed forces.-Early history:...

• Gruppo di Intervento Speciale
  Gruppo di Intervento Speciale
  Gruppo di Intervento Speciale is an elite Special Operations counter-terrorism tactical response unit inside the Italian Carabinieri military police, first formed in 1978...
  
   (GIS)
• Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale
  Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale
  The Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale , is part of the Italian Carabinieri. Founded on 3 December 1990 to coordinate investigative activities against organized crime, it now the main investigative arm of the Carabinieri which deals with organized crime and terrorism...
  
   (ROS)

Italian State Police

Polizia di Stato

The Polizia di Stato is one of the national police forces of Italy.It is the main police force for providing police duties and it is also responsible for patrolling motorways , railways , airports , customs as well as certain waterways, and assisting the local police...

• Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza
  Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza
  The Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza is a special operations division of the Italian state police.-History:In 1974 the Chief of the Polizia di Stato Anti-Terrorism Bureau, Emilio Santillo, announced the necessity to establish a tactical unit with the capability to arrest known terrorists and...
  
   (NOCS)
• Servizio Centrale Operativo (SCO)

Italian Penitentiary Police

Polizia Penitenziaria

The Polizia Penitenziaria is a law enforcement agency in Italy.Subordinate to the Italian Ministry of Justice, the Polizia Penitenziaria operate the Italian prison system as corrections officers. It ensures the security of Italian prisons, keeping unauthorized people out and preventing escape by...

• Gruppo Operativo Mobile (GOM)

Italian Finance Security

Guardia di Finanza

The Guardia di Finanza is a Italian law enforcement agency under the authority of the Minister of Economy and Finance. Like the Carabinieri, it is part of the Italian Armed Forces. The Guard is essentially responsible for dealing with financial crime and smuggling; it has also evolved into Italy's...

:

• Antiterrorismo Pronto Impiego
  AntiTerrorismo Pronto Impiego
  The Counter-terrorism Rapid Response force, formed in 1983, is a special police unit of the Guardia di Finanza dealing with anti-terrorism in Italy. The unit took part in counterterrorism operations and VIP protection details in Italy. This unit has done operations in Albania, Kosovo and Hungary....
  
   (AT-PI)
• Gruppo di investigazione criminalità organizzata
  Gruppo di Investigazione Criminalità Organizzata
  Gruppo d'investigazione sulla criminalità organizzata, also knew with the acronym GICO, is a specialized department of the Italian Guardia di Finanza, a Special Police force that combats international drugs trafficking, smuggling, money laundering, terrorist financing, financial crimes and illegal...
  
   (GICO)

 Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

National Police Agency

National Police Agency (Japan)

The is an agency administered by the National Public Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office in the cabinet of Japan, and is the central coordinating agency of the Japanese police system....

• Special Assault Team
  Special Assault Team
  The is a paramilitary counter terrorism unit under the Japanese National Police Agency. The SAT is mandated, along with the Anti-Firearms Squad and the Counter-NBC Terrorism Squad, for counterterrorism missions and incidents involving firearms or criminals which require an armed response beyond...
  
   (SAT) --- national SWAT units

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department serves as the police force for the entire Tokyo metropolis. Founded in 1874, it is headed by a superintendent general, who is appointed by the National Public Safety Commission and approved by the prime minister.The Metropolitan Police, with a staff of more...

• Special Investigation Team (SIT)
• Security Police
  Security Police (Japan)
  The or known as the is the Japanese close protection unit mandated with the responsibility of protecting domestic and foreign VIPs in Japanese soil and abroad. Its officers are known to have the SP insignia worn on their suit lapel and wearing red neckties and pocket handkerchiefs on their suits...
  
   (SP) --- the VIP protection units
• 1st-9th Mobile Units
• Counter Firearms Units --- the armed response teams

Osaka Prefectural Police Department

• Martial Arts Attack Team (MAAT)

Japan Coast Guard

Japan Coast Guard

The , formerly the Maritime Safety Agency, is the Japanese coast guard. Comprising about 12,000 personnel, it is under the oversight of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and is responsible for the protection the coast-lines of Japan...

• Special Security Team
  Special Security Team
  The is the official counter-terrorist unit of the Japanese Coast Guard. Formerly known as the Kansai International Airport Marine Guard, it was renamed after a period of reorganization...
  
   (SST) --- the maritime SWAT teams
• Special Police Team
• Special Rescue Team
  Special Rescue Team
  The is the elite search and rescue unit of the Japan Coast Guard. The team was established to respond to special maritime accidents and disasters.-History:...
  
   --- the maritime search & rescue teams
• National Strike Team (NST) --- the maritime oil pollution response teams

 Korea, Republic of

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

National Police Agency

• Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT)
  • Seoul Metropolitan Police SWAT Team (Unit 868)
  • Incheon Metropolitan Police SWAT Team (Unit 313)
  • Busan Metropolitan Police SWAT Team (Unit 431)
  • Daegu Metropolitan Police SWAT Team
  • Jeju Metropolitan Police SWAT Team

Republic of Korea Coast Guard

Republic of Korea Coast Guard

The Korea Coast Guard is responsible for maritime safety and control off the coast of South Korea. The KCG is an external branch of Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs at peacetime...

• Sea Special Assault Team (SSAT)
  • Busan SSAT Team
  • Incheon SSAT Team

 Lebanon

Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

Lebanese Police Force

• Fuhud (Panthers)(Special Police Unit)

 Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

• VSAT SPB (Lithuanian State Border Guard Service Rapid Reaction Squads)

 Malaysia

(Police Special Counter-terrorist force) PDRM

• • 69th Commando Battalion (Police Commandos, Paramilitary Police, Bomb Squad)
  • Special Actions Unit (Metropolitant Police SWAT, Anti-Organized Crime Task Force, Special Response Teams) (Marine Police SWAT, Counter-Piracy units, Maritime Anti Terror units / Modelled on by US Navy SEALs)

Malaysian police special response units

• Unit Tindakan Cepat
  Unit Tindakan Cepat
  Unit Tindakan Cepat in Malay is an armed specialist unit of the Royal Malaysian Police and comes under the direct command of the Criminal Investigations Department. Based at all police contingent headquarters in Malaysia, it is the main anti-crime/terrrorist unit of the police force...
  
   (UTC)

• Trup Tindakan Cepat
  Trup Tindakan Cepat
  Trup Tindakan Cepat , or TTC, is the Malaysian counter-terrorism squad, and part of the Malaysian Prisons Department. Formed on 3 October 2005, it is equipped and trained by Malaysian special forces...
  
   (Prison SWAT Team, Prison Special Counter-terrorist force)

• Special Task And Rescue
  Special Task And Rescue
  The Special Task And Rescue or STAR is an elite counter-terrorism and special forces of Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency established to protect a local maritime assets of Malaysia. The team were started operating with minimum memberships with one Malaysian Maritime senior officer and one...
  
   (Malaysian Maritime SWAT, Counter-Piracy units)

 Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

Federal Preventive Police

Federal Preventive Police

The Federal Police , formerly known as the Policía Federal Preventiva , are the uniformed federal police force of Mexico...

• Grupo de Operaciones Especiales
  Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (Mexico)
  The Grupo de Operaciones Especiales are the operative tactical group of the Federal Police of Mexico. Their mission is to carry out a variety of operations such as: hostage rescue, apprehension of highly dangerous criminals, counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism and fight organized crime...
  
   (GOPES)

 Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

Police

Law enforcement in the Netherlands

Law enforcement in the Netherlands is provided by 25 regional police forces , the Netherlands Police Agency and the Royal Marechaussee , a gendarmerie.-Organisation:...

• Dienst Speciale Interventies (DSI)
• Arrestatieteam

 New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

• Armed Offenders Squad
  Armed Offenders Squad
  The Armed Offenders Squad is a specialist unit of the New Zealand Police designed to "cordon, contain and appeal to" armed and dangerous offenders. As the name explains, they are called upon when conflict with an armed offender has occurred or is considered imminent.The AOS draw upon a varied...
  
   (AOS), incidents involving weapons
• Diplomatic Protection Squad
  Diplomatic Protection Squad
  The Diplomatic Protection Squad is a branch of the New Zealand Police that provides personal security for both national and visiting VIPs. National VIPs protected include the Prime Minister, the Governor General, Ministers of the Crown, and the Leader of the Opposition, both within New Zealand and...
  
   (DPS), VIP protection
• Special Tactics Group
  Special Tactics Group
  The Special Tactics Group , formerly known as the Anti-Terrorist Squad, is the full-time tactical and counter-terrorism group of the New Zealand Police....
  
   (STG), counter terrorist

 Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

Norwegian Police Service

Norwegian Police Service

The Norwegian Police Service is the official police force in Norway which are run by the Minister of Justice and Police. The department consists of 27 regional areas and seven national special forces. The department has about 11,000 employees....

• Team Delta
  Beredskapstroppen
  Beredskapstroppen , call sign Delta, is a specialized police unit situated in Oslo, Norway. It is the main public force counter-terrorism unit in Norway, trained to perform dangerous operations such as high-risk arrests and hostage situations...
  
   (Beredskapstroppen)

 Panama

Panama

Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

• Darien
  Darién Gap
  The Darién Gap is a large swath of undeveloped swampland and forest separating Panama's Darién Province in Central America from Colombia in South America. It measures just over long and about wide. Roadbuilding through this area is expensive, and the environmental toll is steep. Political...
  
  -Kuna Yala
  Kuna Yala
  Guna Yala is an autonomous territory or comarca in Panama, inhabited by the Kuna indigenous people.The name means "Guna-land" or "Guna mountain" in the Kuna language...
  
   Border Security Police (DARKUN)

 Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

Philippine National Police

Philippine National Police

The Philippine National Police is the national police force of the Republic of the Philippines. It is both a national and a local police force in that it does provides all law enforcement services throughout the Philippines...

• Special Action Force
  Special Action Force
  The Special Action Force is the National Mobile Unit of the Philippine National Police. It is formed along the lines of the British Army Special Air Service, but with different recruitment and selection procedures...
  
  
• Philippine National Police Aviation Security Command
  Philippine National Police Aviation Security Command
  The Philippine National Police Aviation Security Group are responsible in securing all the country’s airports against offensive and terroristic acts that threaten civil aviation, in exercising operational control and supervision over all D.I.L.G...
  
  
• Police and Armed Forces Anti-Crime Emergency Response Task Force (PACER)
• Special Response Unit
• SWAT
  SWAT
  A SWAT team is an elite tactical unit in various national law enforcement departments. They are trained to perform high-risk operations that fall outside of the abilities of regular officers...
  
  

 Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

Policja

Policja

Policja is the generic name for the police in Poland. The Polish police force was known as policja throughout the Second Polish Republic , and in modern post-communist Republic of Poland since 1990. Its current size is 103.309 officers and ca. 12.000 civilian employees...

• Biuro Operacji Antyterrorystycznych - Bureau of Antiterror Operations - central Police CT/SWAT units, subordinated to Main Police Command
• Samodzielne Pododdziały Antyterrorystyczne Policji, Sekcje Antyterrorystyczne - Independent Antiterrorist Subunits and Antiterrorism Sections - Regional full time SWAT/CT units, subordinated Regional Police Commands.

 Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

Security Forces (Public Security Police

Polícia de Segurança Pública

The Polícia de Segurança Pública - PSP is the Portuguese police force that works in large urban areas. Rural towns and areas are under the protection of the Portuguese Republican National Guard...

 & National Republican Guard)

• Grupo de Operações Especiais
  Grupo de Operações Especiais (Portugal)
  Grupo de Operações Especiais - GOE is the Portuguese PSP special operations unit, manned slightly over 200 elements....
  
   (Special Operations Group)
• Companhia de Operações Especiais (Special Operations Company)

 Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform

• • Special Group for Protection and Intervention or GSPI
    Grupul Special de Protectie si Interventie
    Grupul Special de Protecţie şi Intervenţie was an organization under the control of the Romanian Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform...
    
    

  Police

  Romanian Police

  The Romanian Police is the national police force and main civil law enforcement agency in Romania. It is subordinated to the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform.-Duties:The Romanian Police are responsible for:...

  
  

• Detaşamentul de Poliţie pentru Intervenţie Rapidă
  Detasamentul de Politie pentru Interventie Rapida
  Detaşamentul Poliţiei pentru Intervenţie Rapidă is the common name in Romania for county-level police rapid intervention units....
  
  
  • DIAS, Special Actions and Interventions Detachment
  • Serviciul de Poliţie pentru Intervenţie Rapidă
    Serviciul de Politie pentru Interventie Rapida
    The Serviciul de Poliţie pentru Intervenţie Rapidă was created in 1999, as a Romanian Police special operations unit for Bucharest.SPIR is divided in five units:...
    
    

  Romanian Gendarmerie

  Jandarmeria Româna

  Jandarmeria Română is the military branch of the two Romanian police forces .The gendarmerie is subordinated to the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform and does not have responsibility for policing the Romanian Armed Forces...

  
  

  • Special Intervention Brigade "Vlad Ţepeş"
    Brigada Speciala de Interventie a Jandarmeriei
    Brigada Specială de Intervenţie a Jandarmeriei is a special operations force belonging to the Romanian Gendarmerie...
    
    

Romanian Secret Service (SRI)

• • BAT - Anti-Tero Brigade

  Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

Russian Police

Law enforcement in Russia

Law enforcement in Russia is the responsibility of a variety of different agencies.* The civil police service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Former Militsiya.* FSKN - Russian Federal Narcotics Control of Service, Russian counterpart of the DEA...

• OMON
  OMON
  OMOH is a generic name for the system of special units of militsiya within the Russian and earlier the Soviet MVD...
  
  
• SOBR
  SOBR
  The Special Rapid Response Unit or SOBR is an elite commando unit of the Russian Interior Ministry, involved in anti-criminal operations....
  
  

  Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

Saudi Arabian General Security

Military of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's armed forces are mainly the responsibility of the Ministry of Defense and Aviation. The Ministry also has responsibility for the construction of civilian airports as well as military bases, and for Meteorology departments...

• Saudi Emergency Force (SEFC)
• Mission-Security Force

 Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

Law enforcement

Law enforcement in Serbia

Law enforcement in Serbia is the primary responsibility of the Serbian Police, which is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The ministry is responsible for all local and national law enforcement services in Serbia...

• Gendarmerie (Serbia)
  Gendarmerie (Serbia)
  The Žandarmerija is the gendarmery of Serbia, Dissolved at the end of World War II, it was reestablished on 28 June 2001, by the Interior Minister Dušan Mihailović. The Special Operations Unit and Special Police Unit were later attached to the Gendarmery...
  
  
• SAJ (Special Anti-terrorist Unit)
  SAJ (Special Anti-terrorist Unit)
  The Special Anti-terrorist Unit is a special operations and tactical police unit in Serbia.-History:The SAJ was formed in the former Yugoslavia, due to the increasing phenomenon of terrorism in Europe that was occurring at the time from such groups as: IRA, ETA, Red Army Faction and the Red Brigade...
  
  
• PTJ (Counter-terrorist Unit)
  PTJ (Counter-terrorist Unit)
  The PTJ , is the special operations police unit of Serbia.As its name states, the PTJ is oriented towards anti-terror operations as well as securing and maintaining the internal security of Serbia. Often only used in operations deemed too dangerous for other police units, it is highly trained and...
  
  

 Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

Singapore Police Force

Singapore Police Force

The Singapore Police Force is the main agency tasked with maintaining law and order in the city-state. Formerly known as the Republic of Singapore Police , it has grown from an 11-man organisation to a 38,587 strong force...

• Special Operations Command (SOC)
  Special Operations Command (Singapore)
  The Special Operations Command is a frontline unit of the Singapore Police Force grouping together various specialist units into a single strategic reserve of the regular forces to be called upon in any contingency and serious case of public disorder.Today, the unit is composed of:The SOC also...
  
  
• Police Tactical Unit (PTU)
  Police Tactical Unit (Singapore)
  The Police Tactical Unit is a paramilitary specialist unit of the Singapore Police Force and comes under the direct command of the Special Operations Command. Based in Queenstown, it is the main anti-rioting and disaster-management unit of the police force. They are also called upon to handle...
  
  
• Special Tactics and Rescue (STAR)
  Special Tactics and Rescue (Singapore)
  The Special Tactics and Rescue is the elite Special Operations SWAT of the Singapore Police Force. Its official task is to provide the Singapore Police Force with a tactical armed-response capability, and its motto is "Vigilance, Valour, Victory"....
  
  

Singapore Prison Service

Singapore Prison Service

The Singapore Prison Service is an agency of the Government of Singapore under the hierarchy of the Ministry of Home Affairs. It runs 14 prisons and drug rehabilitation centres in Singapore. It is situated at Upper Changi Road....

• Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response (SPEAR)
  Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response
  The Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response is a department within the Singapore Prison Service. SPEAR Force is a highly trained elite force that is deployed for various high risk and special operations...
  
  

Police Coast Guard

Police Coast Guard

The Police Coast Guard is the Marine Police division of the Singapore Police Force which also takes on roles of the coast guard typically handled by the military or as separate organisations in other countries...

• Special Task Squadron (STS)

 Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

• Útvar osobitného určenia Prezídia policajného zboru SR (ÚOU PZ SR)

 South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

South African Police Service

South African Police Service

The South African Police Service is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa. Its 1116 police stations in South Africa are divided according to the provincial borders, and a Provincial Commissioner is appointed in each province...

• Special Task Force
  South African Police Service Special Task Force
  The South African Police Service Special Task Force is the special operations element of the South African Police Service .The STF is considered to be among the best of such units in the world....
  
   (STF)
• South African Police Service Riot Squad/Anti-Riot Squad/ Public Order Policing/Internal Stability Unit (POP/ISU)

 Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

Guardia Civil

Civil Guard (Spain)

The Civil Guard is the Spanish gendarmerie. It has foreign peace-keeping missions and maintains military status and is the equivalent of a federal military-status police force. As a police force, the Guardia Civil is comparable today to the French Gendarmerie, the Italian Carabinieri and the...

• Unidad Especial de Intervención
  Unidad Especial de Intervención
  The Unidad Especial de Intervención is the emergency response unit of the Spanish Guardia Civil. Its motto is Celeritas et Subtilitas Patrio.The unit was created on February 3, 1982...
  
   (UEI)
• Grupo Antiterrorista Rural (GAR)

Cuerpo Nacional de Policía

• Grupos Operativos Especiales de Seguridad (GOES)
• Grupo Especial de Operaciones
  Grupo Especial de Operaciones
  The Grupo Especial de Operaciones , commonly known as GEOs, are the Special Operations Forces of the Spanish Cuerpo Nacional de Policía of Spain. They are stationed in Guadalajara near the capital, Madrid. The GEO has response capabilities and is responsible for VIP protection duties, as well as...
  
   (GEO)

Mossos d'Esquadra

Mossos d'Esquadra

The Mossos d'Esquadra are the police force of Catalonia, one of the autonomous communities of Spain. It is the oldest civil police force in Europe, founded in the 18th century as the Esquadres de Catalunya to protect the people of Catalonia....

• Grup Especial d'Intervenció (GEI)

Ertzaintza

Ertzaintza

The Ertzaintza , is the police force of the Basque Country, one of the autonomous communities of Spain. An Ertzaintza member is an ertzaina .- Origins :...

• Berrozi Berezi Taldea (BBT)

  Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

• Special Task Force
  Special Task Force
  The Special Task Force is an elite special forces unit of the Sri Lanka Police Service specializing in Counter-Terrorist and Counter-Insurgency operations. It was formed in 1983 not as a military force but rather as a highly specialised police unit...
  
   (STF)

 Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

Federal Office of Police

Federal Office of Police

The Federal Office of Police or fedpol of Switzerland is subject to the Federal Department of Justice and Police. It is responsible for the coordination between cantonal police corps and between Swiss and foreign police forces...

• Einsatzgruppe TIGRIS
  Einsatzgruppe TIGRIS
  The Einsatzgruppe TIGRIS is a specialized tactical police unit belonging to the Federal Criminal Police, the investigative arm of the Swiss Federal Office of Police. As of 2009, it consists of 14 officers and is based at the military police base in Worblaufen near Berne...
  
  
• Détachement d'Action Rapide et de Dissuasion
  Détachement d'Action Rapide et de Dissuasion
  The Détachement d'Action Rapide et de Dissuasion is a specialist unit of the Cantonal police of Vaud, originally established to counter the growing rate of terrorism in Europe during the herald of the 1970s...
  
  

 Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

Swedish Police Service

Swedish Police Service

The Swedish Police Service is a collection of Government agencies concerned with police matters in Sweden. The Swedish Police Service consists of 28,500 employees of which 39 per cent are women. The staff consists of 20,000 police officers of which 25 per cent are women and 8,500 civilian staff of...

• Nationella Insatsstyrkan
  Nationella insatsstyrkan
  The National Task Force , formerly known as the National Task Force of the Swedish Civilian Police , is a paramilitary tactical unit within the National Criminal Investigation Department of the Swedish Police Service...
  
   (Police CT Unit)
• Piketgruppen
  Piketen
  Piketen is an emergency response asset of the Swedish Police Service, similar to the SWAT in the United States.Piketen is called in when situations occur that are too dangerous for ordinary police to handle, such as hostage situations, arresting armed suspects and arresting barricaded suspects...
  
  

 Republic of China (Taiwan)

Republic of China

The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...

• Air Police Corps
• Special Police Corps
  • Wei-An Special Services Commando
• Thunder Squad
  Thunder Squad
  Thunder Squad is the nickname of Wei-An Special Services Unit of Taiwan's National Police Agency, a highly trained SWAT counter-terrorism Special Forces tactical unit established in 1985 to conduct high-risk arrests and other dangerous law enforcement duties...
  
   (Special Weapons And Tactics Police Counter-Terrorism unit)

• Special Task Unit

 Thailand

Thailand

Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...

Royal Thai Police

Royal Thai Police

The Royal Thai Police are the national police of Thailand.-About:Primary responsibility for the maintenance of public order through enforcement of the kingdom's laws was exercised by the Thailand National Police Department , a subdivision of the Ministry of Interior...

• Royal Thai Police Arintaraj 26 Special Operations Unit (Metro Bangkok SWAT)
• Royal Thai Police Naresuan 261 Special Operations Unit (Border Patrol Police SWAT)
• Royal Thai Police Black Tigers Special Operations Unit (VIP Protection)

 Türkiye

General Directorate of Police (known as Emniyet Genel Müdürlüğü)

• Police Special Operation Force known as Polis Özel Harekat Dairesi

 Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

Ukrainian Police Force

Militsiya

Militsiya or militia is used as an official name of the civilian police in several former communist states, despite its original military connotation...

• Berkut
  Berkut (Ukraine)
  The "Berkut" is the system of special units of the Ukrainian militsiya within the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ukraine's successor of the Soviet OMON. Currently it is considered to be part of the Militsiya of Public Security. Its full name is "Berkut" Separate Special Assignment Unit of...
  
   (Golden Eagles)

 United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

Dubai Police Force

Dubai Police Force

The Dubai Police Force is the 15,000 strong police force for the city of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. They come under the jurisdiction of the Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE , and they cover an area of 4,114 square kilometres and a population of 1,321,453 people.-History:The...

• Police Special Unit

 United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

• National Criminal Intelligence Service
  National Criminal Intelligence Service
  The National Criminal Intelligence Service was a United Kingdom policing agency set up as a separate body in April 1992 to centralise the gathering and distribution of intelligence on serious and organised criminal matters. NCIS was formed out of the National Drugs Intelligence Unit in the Home...
  
  
• Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
  Serious Organised Crime Agency
  The Serious Organised Crime Agency is a non-departmental public body of the Government of the United Kingdom under Home Office sponsorship...
  
  
• Metropolitan Police Service
  Metropolitan Police Service
  The Metropolitan Police Service is the territorial police force responsible for Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London which is the responsibility of the City of London Police...
  
  
  • Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department
  • Counter Terrorism Command
    Counter Terrorism Command
    Counter Terrorism Command or SO15 is a Specialist Operations branch within London's Metropolitan Police Service. Counter Terrorism Command was established as a result of the merging of the Anti-Terrorist Branch , and the Special Branch in 2006, to form a single counter-terrorism investigative unit...
    
    
  • Specialist Firearms Command (CO19)
    Specialist Firearms Command
    Central Operations Specialist Firearms Command is a Central Operations branch within Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service. The Command is responsible for providing a firearms-response capability, assisting the rest of the service, which is normally unarmed...
    
    
  • Flying Squad
    Flying Squad
    The Flying Squad is a branch of the Specialist Crime Directorate, within London's Metropolitan Police Service. The Squad's purpose is to investigate commercial armed robberies, along with the prevention and investigation of other serious armed crime...
    
    
• Greater Manchester Police
  Greater Manchester Police
  Greater Manchester Police is the police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England...
  
  
  • Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU)

 United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Police

Police

The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

• LAPD
  Los Angeles Police Department
  The Los Angeles Police Department is the police department of the city of Los Angeles, California. With just under 10,000 officers and more than 3,000 civilian staff, covering an area of with a population of more than 4.1 million people, it is the third largest local law enforcement agency in...
  
   Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT)
  SWAT
  A SWAT team is an elite tactical unit in various national law enforcement departments. They are trained to perform high-risk operations that fall outside of the abilities of regular officers...
  
  
• Aerial Support to Regional Enforcement Agencies (ASTREA), a special division of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department.
• NYPD ESU
  New York City Police Department Emergency Service Unit
  The New York City Police Department Emergency Service Unit is the Emergency Service Unit for the New York City Police Department. A component of the Special Operations Division of the Patrol Services Bureau, the unit provides specialized support and advanced equipment to other NYPD units. For...
  
  

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)Hostage Rescue Team (HRT)

Hostage Rescue Team

The FBI Hostage Rescue Team is the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation's counter-terrorism paramilitary tactical team. The HRT is trained to rescue U.S. citizens and allies who are held by a hostile force, either terrorist or criminal...

• FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams
  FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams
  FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams are specialized tactical teams of the Federal Bureau of Investigation . SWAT agents are specially trained to intervene in high-risk events like hostage and barricade situations. The FBI maintains SWAT teams at each of its 56 field offices throughout the...
  
  

United States Marshals Service

United States Marshals Service

The United States Marshals Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice . The office of U.S. Marshal is the oldest federal law enforcement office in the United States; it was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789...

 (USMS)

• USMS Special Operations Group (SOG)
• USMS Special Response Teams (SRT)
• United States Federal Witness Protection Program
  United States Federal Witness Protection Program
  The United States Federal Witness Protection Program is a witness protection program administered by the United States Department of Justice and operated by the United States Marshals Service that is designed to protect threatened witnesses before, during, and after a trial.A few states, including...
  
  
• Missile Escort Program (MEP)

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice...

 (ATF)

• Special Response Teams (SRT)

Drug Enforcement Administration

Drug Enforcement Administration

The Drug Enforcement Administration is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Justice, tasked with combating drug smuggling and use within the United States...

 (DEA)

• Mobile Enforcement Teams (MET)
• Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team (FAST)

Coast Guard

United States Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard is a branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven U.S. uniformed services. The Coast Guard is a maritime, military, multi-mission service unique among the military branches for having a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency...

• Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron
  Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron
  The Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron is an armed U.S. Coast Guard helicopter squadron specializing in Airborne Use of Force and drug-interdiction missions. It is based at Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Florida....
  
  
• Maritime Safety and Security Team
  Maritime Safety and Security Team
  A Maritime Safety and Security Team or MSST is a United States Coast Guard anti-terrorism team established to protect local maritime assets...
  
   (MSST)
• Maritime Security Response Team (MSRT)
• Tactical Law Enforcement Teams
  Law Enforcement Detachments
  Law Enforcement Detachments or LEDETs are specialized, deployable maritime law enforcement teams of the United States Coast Guard. First established in 1982, their primary mission is to deploy aboard U.S. and allied naval vessels to conduct and support law enforcement, interdiction, or security...
  
   (TACLET)

Department of Energy

United States Department of Energy

The United States Department of Energy is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material...

 (DOE)

• Special Response Teams (SRT)
• Special Response Force (SRF)

United States Secret Service

United States Secret Service

The United States Secret Service is a United States federal law enforcement agency that is part of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The sworn members are divided among the Special Agents and the Uniformed Division. Until March 1, 2003, the Service was part of the United States...

 (USSS)

• Counter Assault Team (CAT)
• Uniformed Division Emergency Response Team (ERT)
• Counter Sniper Team (CST)

US Border Patrol

United States Border Patrol

The United States Border Patrol is a federal law enforcement agency within U.S. Customs and Border Protection , a component of the Department of Homeland Security . It is an agency in the Department of Homeland Security that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to...

 (USBP)

• US Border Patrol Special Operations Group (SOG)
  • Border Patrol Air Mobile Unit (AMU)
  • Border Patrol Tactical Unit
    BORTAC
    BORTAC is an initialism for the United States "Border Patrol Tactical Unit". BORTAC is the paramilitary arm of the United States Border Patrol.-Mission:...
    
     (BORTAC)
  • Border Patrol Special Response Teams (SRT)
  • Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue (BORSTAR)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is a federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security charged with regulating and facilitating international trade, collecting import duties, and enforcing U.S. regulations, including trade, customs and immigration. CBP is the...

 (CBP)

• Special Response Teams (SRT)

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security , responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security...

 (ICE)

• Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Response Teams (SRT)
• Enforcement & Removal Operations (ERO) Special Response Teams (SRT)
• Enforcement & Removal Operations (ERO)Tactical Intervention and Control Teams

Federal Protective Service (FPS)
Special Response Teams (SRT)
Bureau of Diplomatic Security

Bureau of Diplomatic Security

The Bureau of Diplomatic Security, more commonly known as Diplomatic Security, or DS, is the security and law enforcement arm of the United States Department of State. DS is a world leader in international investigations, threat analysis, cyber security, counterterrorism, security technology, and...

• Diplomatic Security’s Office of Mobile Security Deployment (MSD)

United States Capitol Police

United States Capitol Police

The United States Capitol Police is a federal police force charged with protecting the United States Congress within the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its territories.-History:...

• Containment Emergency Response Team (CERT)

United States Mint Police

United States Mint Police

The United States Mint Police is one of the oldest federal law enforcement agencies in the United States. It is responsible for the protection of the United States Treasury and the United States Mint.-Official duties:...

 (USMP)

• USMP Special Response Teams (SRT)

United States Park Police

United States Park Police

The United States Park Police is one of the oldest uniformed federal law enforcement agencies in the United States. It functions as a full service law enforcement agency with responsibilities and jurisdiction in those National Park Service areas primarily located in the Washington, D.C., San...

 (USPP)

• USPP Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team

Pentagon Force Protection Agency

Pentagon Force Protection Agency

The Pentagon Force Protection Agency is a civilian Defense Agency within the Department of Defense charged with protecting and safeguarding the occupants, visitors, and infrastructure of the Pentagon, Navy Annex and other assigned Pentagon facilities.This mission is accomplished with law...

 (PFPA)

• United States Pentagon Police Emergency Response Team (ERT)

 Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

• Vietnam Mobile Police Force (Cảnh sát Cơ động Việt Nam) and Vietnam Special Police Force (Cảnh sát Đặc nhiệm Việt Nam)