Duties
The SWAT unit is tasked to do the following under the Detective Branch:
- Hostage rescue.
- Crime suppression.
- Perimeter anti-sniper security for VIPs.
- Providing superior assault firepower in certain high-risk situations.
- Rescuing officers and citizens captured or endangered by gunfire.
- Countering urban terrorist operations.
- Resolve high-risk situations with a minimum loss of life, injury or property damage.
- Resolve situations involving barricaded subjects, (specifically covered by a Hostage Barricade Team).
- Stabilise situations involving high-risk suicidal subjects.
- Provide assistance during drug raids, and serving high-risk arrest and search warrants.
- Provide additional security at special events.
- Stabilising dangerous situations by dealing with violent criminals (such as serial killers or heavily-armed gangsters ).
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