The Special Emergency Force (Arabic: قُوّات الطَّوارئ الخاصَّة, romanized: Qūwāt aṭ-Ṭawāriʾ as-Suʿūdīyah) or the S.E.F (Saudi Emergency Force) is a special operations counter-terrorism unit of the Presidency of State Security.

The SEF was established in 1972; its main job was to control riots and demonstration alongside assisting other police forces in combating drug trafficking and criminals.

Since 1995, with the first terrorist attacks on Saudi soil in Olaya, Riyadh, and then in 1996 in Al Khobar, the center shifted to combating terrorism, and accordingly it retrained and reprogrammed its forces.

[2] In September of 2014, around 70,000 members of the Special Emergency Forces participated in providing security during the Hajj season.

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