Police tactical unit

[2][3][4] The tasks of a police tactical unit may include executing dangerous search warrants and arrest warrants for dangerous persons; arresting or neutralizing dangerous or mentally ill armed persons; and intervening in high-risk situations such as shootouts, standoffs, hostage-takings, and terrorist incidents.

[11] A police tactical unit can be part of either a police force under the authority of civilian officials,[12] or a gendarmerie-style force under the authority of civilian officials (interior ministry) or a defence ministry that may have formal military status.

[17][15][18] In Australia, the federal government uses the term police tactical group.

[3] The European Union uses the term special intervention unit for national counterterrorist PTUs.

[24] Aside from counterterrorism, the roles of police and military units differ in that the role of military units can result in the use of the maximum permissible force against enemy combatants while the role of police units is to use only minimal force sufficient to subdue suspected criminals, including negotiation.

Osaka Prefectural Police Riot Police Unit officers arresting a suspect during training
GSG 9 (operator and helicopter pictured here in 1978) was established in September 1972 following the Munich massacre to combat terrorism , and was one of the first police tactical units. [ 7 ]
An FBI SWAT team advancing during an aircraft hijacking training exercise at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi