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  2. FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams - Wikipedia

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    FBI SWAT teams are trained to a national standard and utilize the same equipment which enables a team to provide assistance to another Field Office Team. [3] SWAT teams can be dispatched to aid local law enforcement with limited resources to manage large-scale high-risk incidents. Several factors can determine the deployment of FBI SWAT.

  3. LAPD Metropolitan Division - Wikipedia

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    The first significant deployment of LAPD's SWAT unit was on December 9, 1969, in a four-hour confrontation with members of the Black Panthers. The Panthers eventually surrendered, with three Panthers and three officers being injured. By 1974, there was a general acceptance of SWAT as a police resource in Los Angeles.

  4. 16 SWAT officers hospitalized after blast at training ... - AOL

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    The FBI Special Agent Jerry Crowe Regional Tactical Training Facility south of Los Angeles hosts firearms training and qualifications tests for the bureau and local law enforcement agencies ...

  5. List of police tactical units - Wikipedia

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    Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG) Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) Crisis Negotiation Unit (CNU) Special Weapons and Tactics Teams (FBI SWAT) Tactical Helicopter Unit (THU) Federal Bureau of Prisons – Special Operations Response Team (SORT) U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) USMS Special Operations Group (SOG)

  6. LAPD 'SWAT mafia' trial set to begin; elite unit's leaders ...

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    A former LAPD sergeant has sued the city of Los Angeles, alleging he faced retaliation after calling out senior members of the department's SWAT unit over a culture of violence, secrecy and cover-ups.

  7. Jury awards $3 million to ex-SWAT sergeant who alleged ... - AOL

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    A lawsuit by former SWAT officer Timothy Colomey accused leaders of the LAPD tactical unit of working to conceal unlawful killings and retaliating against him when he spoke to internal investigators.

  8. Police tactical unit - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, police tactical units are known by the generic term SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team; [14] [15] the term originated from the Philadelphia Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1960s. [16] [14] [17] In Australia, the federal government uses the term police tactical group. [3]

  9. 16 SWAT team members injured in explosion at FBI training ...

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    Sixteen members of the Orange County Sheriff's Department SWAT team were injured Wednesday afternoon in an explosion at an FBI training facility in Irvine.