List of special police units all around the world!
Afghanistan
Albania
- Shqiponjat (The Eagles)[citation needed]
- Immediate Intervention Forces – FNSH (Forcat e Ndërhyrjes së Shpejtë)
- Port Authority Security Force[citation needed]
- RENEA
Argentina
- Federal Special Operations Group (GEOF)
- Hawk Special Operations Brigade (BEOH)
- Special Operations Troops Company (TOE)
- Albatross Group
- Scorpion Group
Austria
Australia
- 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
- Queensland Department of Corrective Services
- Tactical Response Unit (TRU)
- Tasmania Corrective Services
- Tactical Response Group (TRG)
- Special Operations Group (SOG)
- Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT)
- Public Order Response Team (PORT)
Bahamas,The
- Security and Intelligence Branch
Bangladesh
Belgium
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
- 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
- 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
- Counter-Terrorist Squads
Canada
Chile
- Carabineros de Chile
- Chilean Investigation Police (Policía de Investigaciones de Chile)
- Gendarmería de Chile(Prison Service)
People’s Republic of China
- 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
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
- 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
Cuba
- Police
- BE PNR
Czech Republic
- URNA (Útvar rychlého nasazení – Rapid Reaction Unit)
- ZJ (Zasahova jednotka) – 8 regional fulltime units)
Denmark
Rigspolitiets Aktionsstyrke
Egypt
Estonia
Fiji
- Police Tactical Response Unit (disbanded in 2007)
- Police National Operations Support Unit
Finland
- Karhuryhmä(Special unit of the Helsinki City Police Department but used nation-wide)
- Finnish Border Guard
- Border Guard Readiness Unit
France
- Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN)
- Pelotons d’Intervention Interrégionaux de la Gendarmerie Nationale (PI2G)
- Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion (RAID)
- Groupes d’Intervention de la Police Nationale (GIPN)
- Joint unit
- Groupement interarmées d’hélicoptères (GIH, joint air force and army light aviation helicopters unit for specialized units of Gendarmerie and Police)
Germany
- German police special response units
Greece
Hungary
- TESZ
Iceland
India
- Protective Service Unit
Indonesia
- Brigade Mobil(National Police Special Operations Force, Police Commandos, Special Response team) POLRI
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
- Nachshon
- Dror
- Masada
Italy
Japan
- Special Investigation Team (SIT)
- 1st-9th Mobile Units
- Anti-Firearms Squad — the armed response teams
- Osaka Prefectural Police Department
- Martial Arts Attack Team (MAAT)
- 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
- Special Police’s Unit 30 (SWAT)
- Special Unit 14 (Special Intervention)
- GID Special Unit
Republic of Korea
- Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT)
- Sea Special Assault Team (SSAT)
- Busan SSAT Team
- Incheon SSAT Team
Lebanon
- Lebanese Police Force
- Fuhud (Panthers)(Special Police Unit)
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
- VSAT SPB (Lithuanian State Border Guard Service Rapid Reaction Squads)
Luxembourg
Malaysia
Pasukan Gerakan Khas(Police Special Counter-terrorist force) PDRM
- UNGERIN (Marine Police SWAT, Counter-Piracy units, Maritime Anti Terror units / Modelled on by US Navy SEALs)
- Malaysian police special response units
Malta
- Maltese Police
- Special Assignments Group
Mexico
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
Netherlands
New Zealand
- Armed Offenders Squad (AOS), incidents involving weapons
- Diplomatic Protection Squad (DPS), VIP protection
- Special Tactics Group (STG), counter terrorist
Norway
Panama
Philippines
- 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
- 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
- Grupo de Operações Especiais (Special Operations Group)
- Companhia de Operações Especiais (Special Operations Company)
Romania
- 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
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- BAT – Anti-Tero Brigade
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
Serbia
Singapore
Slovenia
Slovakia
South Africa
- Special Task Force (STF)
- South African Police Service Riot Squad/Anti-Riot Squad/ Public Order Policing/Internal Stability Unit (POP/ISU)
Spain
- Grup Especial d’Intervenció (GEI)
Sri Lanka
Switzerland
Sweden
Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Air Police Corps
- Special Police Corps
- Wei-An Special Services Commando
- Thunder Squad (Special Weapons And Tactics Police Counter-Terrorism unit)
- Special Task Unit
Thailand
- 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)
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
- 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)
- USMS Special Operations Group (SOG)
- USMS Special Response Teams (SRT)
- United States Federal Witness Protection Program
- Missile Escort Program (MEP)
- Special Response Teams (SRT)
- Mobile Enforcement Teams (MET)
- Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team (FAST)
- Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron
- Maritime Safety and Security Team (MSST)
- Maritime Security Response Team (MSRT)
- Tactical Law Enforcement Teams (TACLET)
- Special Response Teams (SRT)
- Special Response Force (SRF)
- Counter Assault Team (CAT)
- Uniformed Division Emergency Response Team (ERT)
- Counter Sniper Team (CST)
- US Border Patrol Special Operations Group (SOG)
- Special Response Teams (SRT)
- 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
Special Response Teams (SRT)
- Diplomatic Security’s Office of Mobile Security Deployment (MSD)
- Containment Emergency Response Team (CERT)
- USMP Special Response Teams (SRT)
- 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