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In 1991, Cuban inmates at Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Talladega, Alabama rioted and took several hostages. The BOP responded immediately by deploying several SORTs, and received additional assistance from the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), along with several regional FBI SWAT teams. As the situation grew more tense, the order was ...
Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan Division – Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team; Maui County Police Department – Special Response Team (SRT) Miami Police Department – Special Threat Response: Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) and Hostage Negotiators
FBI SWAT teams are specially trained to serve warrants and intervene in high-risk incidents such as active shooters, barricaded suspects, or protection for personnel or dignitaries. [1] [5] [6] [7] 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 ...
In the United States, a SWAT (special weapons and tactics) team is a generic term for a police tactical unit.. SWAT units are generally trained, equipped, and deployed to resolve "high-risk situations", often those regular police units are not trained or equipped to handle, such as shootouts, standoffs, raids, hostage-takings, and terrorism.
Nineteen HSI field offices maintain a Special Response Team (SRT) that operates as a federal SWAT element for the office's area of responsibility (AOR). [30] [needs update] SRT was founded under the U.S. Customs Service as the Warrant Entry and Tactical Team (WETT) and were renamed to SRT in 1998. [30]
The Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) is the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) elite tactical unit. [9] [10] The HRT was formed to provide a full-time federal law enforcement tactical capability to respond to major terrorist incidents throughout the United States. [9]
The mission of BORTAC is "to respond to terrorist threats of all types anywhere in the world in order to protect our nation's homeland." [6] In essence, BORTAC teams often conduct drug raids on high-value targets, as well as sometimes being attached to Border Patrol or Air and Marine Operations units to assist them in their duties.
The SRT units in the United States Department of Defense are equivalents of civilian police department SRT units and Special Response Teams, and receive their training at the Military Police Corps School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. [26] [27]