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List of special police units all around the world!

Afghanistan

Interior Ministry

• Special Narcotics Force
• Afghan National Civil Order Police Special Support Battalion

Albania

• Shqiponjat (The Eagles)^{[citation needed]}
• Immediate Intervention Forces – FNSH (Forcat e Ndërhyrjes së Shpejtë)
• Port Authority Security Force^{[citation needed]}
• RENEA

Argentina

Argentine Federal Police

• Federal Special Operations Group (GEOF)
• Hawk Special Operations Brigade (BEOH)
• Special Operations Troops Company (TOE)
• Albatross Group
• Scorpion Group

Austria

Austrian Federal Police

• Einsatzkommando Cobra (EKO Cobra)

Australia

Australian Federal Police

• Specialist Response and Security (SRS)
• Operational Response Group (ORG)

New South Wales Police Force

• Tactical Operations Unit (TOU)
• State Protection Support Unit (SPSU)
• Public Order and Riot Squad (PORS) – full-time riot squad
• Public Order and Operational Support Group (POOSG) – part-time riot squad

New South Wales Department of Corrective Services

• Hostage Response Group (HRG)

Northern Territory Police

• Territory Response Group (TRG)
• Public Order Response Team (PORT)

Queensland Police

• Special Emergency Response Team (SERT)
• Public Safety Response Team (PSRT)

Queensland Department of Corrective Services

• Tactical Response Unit (TRU)

South Australia Police

• Special Tasks and Rescue (STAR)

Tasmania Police

• Special Operations Group (SOG)
• Public Order Response Team (PORT)

Tasmania Corrective Services

• Tactical Response Group (TRG)

Victoria Police

• Special Operations Group (SOG)
• Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT)
• Public Order Response Team (PORT)

Western Australia Police

• Tactical Response Group (TRG)
• Regional Operations Group (ROG)

Bahamas,The

Royal Bahamas Police Force

• Security and Intelligence Branch

Bangladesh

Bangladesh Police

• SWAT (Bangladesh)
• Rapid Action Battalion

Belgium

Belgian Federal Police

• Federal Police Special Units (former SIE/ESI)

Bolivia

Bolivian Police Force

• Unidad Tactica de Operaciones Policiales – UTOP (Tactical Response Unit)
• Fuerza especial de lucha contra el narcotráfico- FELCN (Bolivian anti-narcotics force)
• Fuerza especial de lucha contra el crimen- FELCC (Bolivian anti-criminal force)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian Police Force

• The State Investigation and Protection Agency – SIPA
• Bosnian Special Police Units
  • Special Police Unit

Brazil

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

• CORE – Coordenadoria de Recursos Especiais (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 (Special Operations Group), State os São Paulo.

Bulgaria

• SOBT

Bulgarian Gendarmerie

• Counter-Terrorist Squads

Canada

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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

Chile

• Carabineros de Chile
  • GOPE – Grupo de Operaciones Policiales Especiales (Police Special Operations Group)
• Chilean Investigation Police (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)

People’s Republic of China

Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China

• Beijing SWAT

People’s Armed Police (CAPF)

• Snow Leopard Commando Unit (SWCU)
• Immediate Action Unit (IAU)
• Provincial Special Police Groups (SPG)
• Special Police Unit (SPU)

(Guangdong Province SPU a.k.a nicknamed “Flying Tigers”)

Municipal Public Security Police Bureaus

• Beijing SWAT Unit

Hong Kong

• Airport Security Unit (ASU)
• Counter Terrorism Response Unit (CTRU)
• Special Duties Unit (SDU (a.k.a nicknamed “Flying Tigers”)
• VIP Protection Unit (G4)
• Police Tactical Unit (PTU)
• Surveillance Support Unit (Hit Team)

Macau

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

Colombian National Police

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

Costa Rica

• 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

Law Enforcement

• Lučko Anti-Terrorist Unit

Cuba

Police

• BE PNR

Czech Republic

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

Denmark

Rigspolitiets Aktionsstyrke

• Politiets Aktionsstyrke (Special unit of the Police)

 

Egypt

Egyptian National Police

• Unit 333 (Special unit of the interior ministry)

Estonia

Estonian Police

• K-Commando (Special unit of the Central Crime Police)

Fiji

• Police Tactical Response Unit (disbanded in 2007)
• Police National Operations Support Unit

Finland

Finnish Police

• Karhuryhmä(Special unit of the Helsinki City Police Department but used nation-wide)
  • Valo-79 (Special unit of the North-Finland Police)
• Finnish Border Guard
  • Border Guard Readiness Unit

France

Gendarmerie

• Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN)
• Pelotons d’Intervention Interrégionaux de la Gendarmerie Nationale (PI2G)

National Police

• Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion (RAID)
• Groupes d’Intervention de la Police Nationale (GIPN)

Préfecture de Police de Paris

• Brigade de recherche et d’intervention (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

Bundespolizei (Federal Police)

• GSG 9
• ASSIK

German police special response units

• Spezialeinsatzkommando(SEK)
• Mobiles Einsatzkommando (MEK)

Zollkriminalamt (German Customs Investigation Bureau)

• ZUZ

Greece

Greek Police

• Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (EKAM)

Greek Coast Guard

• Special Operations Teams (OEA)

Hungary

• TESZ

Iceland

Icelandic Police

• Víkingasveitin (Viking Squad / Special Operations Unit of the National Commissioner)

India

Indian Police Service

• Rapid Action Force
• Special Operations Group (India)
• Anti Terrorist Squad (India)
• Force One

Protective Service Unit

• Special Protection Group

Indonesia

Indonesian National Police / POLRI

• Brigade Mobil(National Police Special Operations Force, Police Commandos, Special Response team) POLRI
  • Detachment 88 (Police Special Counter-terrorist force)

Iraq

Iraqi Police

• Hilla SWAT Team

Ireland

Irish Police

• Emergency Response Unit (ERU)

Israel

Israel Police

• Yasam
• Gideonim
• Yagal
• Public Transportation (Yoav, Horev, and Nit’zan)

Israel Border Police

• Yamam
• Yamas
• Yamag
• Matilan

Israel Prison Service

• Nachshon
• Dror
• Masada

Italy

Italian Carabinieri

• Gruppo di Intervento Speciale (GIS)
• Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale (ROS)

Italian State Police

• Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza (NOCS)
• Servizio Centrale Operativo (SCO)

Italian Penitentiary Police

• Gruppo Operativo Mobile (GOM)

Italian Finance Security

• Antiterrorismo Pronto Impiego (AT-PI)
• Gruppo di investigazione criminalità organizzata (GICO)

Japan

National Police Agency

• Special Assault Team (SAT) — national SWAT units

Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

• Special Investigation Team (SIT)
• 1st-9th Mobile Units
• Anti-Firearms Squad — the armed response teams

Osaka Prefectural Police Department

• Martial Arts Attack Team (MAAT)

Japan Coast Guard

• Special Security Team (SST) — the maritime SWAT teams
• Special Police Team
• Special Rescue Team — the maritime search & rescue teams
• National Strike Team (NST) — the maritime oil pollution response teams

Jordan

Public Security Force

• Special Police’s Unit 30 (SWAT)

General Directorate Of Gendarmerie

• Special Unit 14 (Special Intervention)

GID

• GID Special Unit

Republic of Korea

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

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

Lebanon

Lebanese Police Force

• Fuhud (Panthers)(Special Police Unit)

Liechtenstein

Landespolizei

• Special Police Unit

Lithuania

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

Luxembourg

Grand Ducal Police

• Unité Spéciale de la Police

Malaysia

Ministry of Home Affairs

Royal Malaysian Police / Polis Diraja Malaysia

• Pasukan Gerakan Khas(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)
• UNGERIN (Marine Police SWAT, Counter-Piracy units, Maritime Anti Terror units / Modelled on by US Navy SEALs)

Malaysian police special response units

• Unit Tindakan Cepat (UTC)

Malaysian Prison Department / Jabatan Penjara Malaysia

• Trup Tindakan Cepat (Prison SWAT Team, Prison Special Counter-terrorist force)

Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency / Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritim Malaysia

• Special Task And Rescue (Malaysian Maritime SWAT, Counter-Piracy units)

Malta

Maltese Police

• Special Assignments Group

Mexico

Federal Preventive Police

• Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (GOPES)

Morocco

• Brigade d’infanterie parachutiste (B.I.P) of the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces:
  • 4 Units
  • 2 Commandos
• Land Army:
  • 3 Commandos : Units Cobra, Aigle and Tigre
• Royal Navy:
  • 2 Battalions : Al Hoceima and El Ayoune
• Royal Gendarmerie:
  • Groupe d’intervention de la Gendarmerie royale (G.I.G.R)
• National Police:
  • Groupe d’intervention rapide de la Police nationale (G.I.R)

Namibia

• Special Field Force (SFF)

Netherlands

Police

• Dienst Speciale Interventies (DSI)
• Arrestatieteam

New Zealand

New Zealand Police

• Armed Offenders Squad (AOS), incidents involving weapons
• Diplomatic Protection Squad (DPS), VIP protection
• Special Tactics Group (STG), counter terrorist

Norway

Norwegian Police Service

• Emergency Response Unit

Panama

• Darien-Kuna Yala Border Security Police (DARKUN)

Philippines

Philippine National Police

• Special Action Force
• Philippine National Police Aviation Security Command
• Police and Armed Forces Anti-Crime Emergency Response Task Force (PACER)
• Special Response Unit
• SWAT

Poland

Policja

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

Portugal

Security Forces (Public Security Police & National Republican Guard)

• Grupo de Operações Especiais (Special Operations Group)
• Companhia de Operações Especiais (Special Operations Company)

Romania

Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform

• • Special Group for Protection and Intervention or GSPI

  Police

• Detaşamentul de Poliţie pentru Intervenţie Rapidă
  • DIAS, Special Actions and Interventions Detachment
  • [[Serviciul de Poliţie pentru Intervenţie Rapidă
  • SIAS, Serviciul pentru Interventii la Actiuni Speciale

  Romanian Gendarmerie

  • Special Intervention Brigade “Vlad Ţepeş”

Romanian Secret Service (SRI)

• • BAT – Anti-Tero Brigade

Russia

Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia)

• Rus (special forces)
• Vityaz (MVD)
• OMON
• SOBR
• Rosich
• Ratnik
• Vyatich
• Saturn (detachment)
• Skif
• OMSDON
• OMSN
• Federal Drug Control Service of Russia
• Federal Security Service

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian General Security

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

Serbia

Law enforcement

• Gendarmerie (Serbia)
• Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (Serbia)
• PTJ (Counter-Terrorist Unit)

Singapore

Singapore Police Force

• Special Operations Command (SOC)
• Police Tactical Unit (PTU)
• Special Tactics and Rescue (STAR)

Singapore Prison Service

• Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response (SPEAR)

Police Coast Guard

• Special Task Squadron (STS)

Slovenia

• Specialna Enota Policije (SEP)

Slovakia

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

South Africa

South African Police Service

• Special Task Force (STF)
• South African Police Service Riot Squad/Anti-Riot Squad/ Public Order Policing/Internal Stability Unit (POP/ISU)

Spain

Guardia Civil

• Unidad Especial de Intervención (UEI)
• Grupo Antiterrorista Rural (GAR)

Cuerpo Nacional de Policía

• Grupos Operativos Especiales de Seguridad (GOES)
• Grupo Especial de Operaciones (GEO)

Mossos d’Esquadra

• Grup Especial d’Intervenció (GEI)

Ertzaintza

• Berrozi Berezi Taldea (BBT)

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Police Service

• Special Task Force (STF)

Switzerland

Federal Office of Police

• Einsatzgruppe TIGRIS
• Détachement d’Action Rapide et de Dissuasion

Sweden

Swedish Police Service

• Nationella Insatsstyrkan (Police CT Unit)
• Piketgruppen

Republic of China (Taiwan)

National Police Agency (NPA)

• Air Police Corps
• Special Police Corps
  • Wei-An Special Services Commando
• Thunder Squad (Special Weapons And Tactics Police Counter-Terrorism unit)

Coast Guard Administration

• Special Task Unit

Thailand

Royal Thai Police

• 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

Ukrainian Police Force

• Berkut (Golden Eagles)

United Arab Emirates

Dubai Police Force

• Police Special Unit

United Kingdom

• Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA)
• Metropolitan Police Service
  • Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department
  • Counter Terrorism Command
  • Specialist Firearms Command (CO19)
  • Flying Squad

• West Midlands Police
  • Central Motorway Police Group
  • Central Counties Firearms Command
  • Midlands Regional Public Order
  • West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit
  • Midlands Events Management Policing

• Greater Manchester Police
  • Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU)

United States

Police

• LAPD Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT)
• Aerial Support to Regional Enforcement Agencies (ASTREA), a special division of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.
• New York City Police Department Emergency Service Unit (ESU)

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

• Hostage Rescue Team (HRT)
• FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams

United States Marshals Service (USMS)

• USMS Special Operations Group (SOG)
• USMS Special Response Teams (SRT)
• United States Federal Witness Protection Program
• Missile Escort Program (MEP)

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)

• Special Response Teams (SRT)

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

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

Coast Guard

• Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron
• Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST)
• Maritime Security Response Team (MSRT)
• Tactical Law Enforcement Teams (TACLET)

Department of Energy (DOE)

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

United States Secret Service (USSS)

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

US Border Patrol (USBP)

• US Border Patrol Special Operations Group (SOG)
  • Border Patrol Air Mobile Unit (AMU)
  • Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC)
  • Border Patrol Special Response Teams (SRT)
  • Border Patrol Search, Trauma, and Rescue (BORSTAR)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

• Special Response Teams (SRT)

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (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

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

United States Capitol Police

• Containment Emergency Response Team (CERT)

United States Mint Police (USMP)

• USMP Special Response Teams (SRT)

United States Park Police (USPP)

• USPP Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Team

Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA)

• United States Pentagon Police Emergency Response Team (ERT)

Vietnam

• Vietnam Mobile Police Force (Cảnh sát Cơ động Việt Nam)
• Vietnam Rapid Response Police Force- CS 113 (Cảnh sát Phản ứng nhanh Việt Nam)

Source: Wikipedia