List of Special Response Units

The scope of this list is primarily police units tasked with special duties, including, but not limited to the following:
*Security of the state, state officials and foreign dignitaries
*Offensive domestic counter-terrorist actions
*Serving high-risk arrest warrants
*Performing hostage rescue and/or armed intervention
*Engaging heavily-armed criminals

Albania

* Reparti i Neutralizimit te Elementit te Armatosur (RENEA)

Argentina

* "Policía Federal Argentina" (Argentine Federal Police) - "Grupo Especial de Operaciones Federales" (Federal Special Operations Group)
* "Policía de la Provincia de Buenos Aires" (Buenos Aires Provincial Police) - "Brigada Especial Operativa Halcón" (Hawk Special Operations Brigade)

Australia

* Australian Federal Police - Specialist Response and Security Team
* New South Wales Police Force - Tactical Operations Unit
* Northern Territory Police - Territory Response Group
* Queensland Police - Special Emergency Response Team
* South Australia Police - Special Tasks and Rescue Group
* Tasmania Police - Special Operations Group
* Victoria Police - Special Operations Group
* Western Australia Police - Tactical Response Group

Austria

* "Bundespolizei" (Federal Police) - "Einsatzkommando (EKO) Cobra"

Bangladesh

* Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)

Belgium

* Federal Police - Federal Police Special Units (former SIE/ESI)

Brazil

* "Polícia Militar" (Brazilian Military Police) - "Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais" (Special Police Operations Battalion)
* "Polícia Civil" (Brazilian Civil Police) - "Grupo de Operações Especiais" (Special Operations Group)

Canada

* Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Emergency Response Team (ERT)
* Correctional Service Canada - Correctional Service Canada
* Durham Regional Police - Tactical Support Unit (TSU)
* Municipal Integrated Emergency Response Team - MIERT
* Toronto Police - Emergency Task Force (ETF)
* Ontario Provincial Police - Tactics and Rescue Unit (TRU), Emergency Response Team (ERT), Provincial Emergency Response Team (PERT)
* Ottawa Police Service - Tactical Unit
* "Sûreté du Québec" (Quebec Provincial Police) - [http://www.surete.qc.ca/lutte/services.html "Groupe d'Intervention"] (Intervention Group )
* "Service de police de la Ville de Montreal" (City of Montreal Police Service) - "Groupe tactique d'intervention" (Tactical Intervention Group)
* York Regional Police - Emergency Response Unit (ERU)
* Vancouver Police Department - Emergency Response Team
* Peel Regional Police - Tactical and Rescue Unit
* Halton Regional Police - Tactical Rescue Unit
* Niagara Regional Police - Emergency Task Unit
* Waterloo Regional Police Service - Emergency Response Unit
* Calgary Police Service - Tactical Unit
* Edmonton Police Service - Tactical Unit

Chile

* "Carabineros de Chile" (Chilean gendarmerie) - "Grupo de Operaciones Policiales Especiales" (Special Police Operations Group)

China

*Snow Wolf Commando Unit (SWCU)

Denmark

* "Politiet" (Danish police) - "Aktionsstyrken (AKS)"

Finland

*Readiness Unit - Karhuryhmä (Bear Unit)

France

* "Police Nationale" (National Police)
** "Groupes d'Intervention de la Police Nationale (GIPN)" (National Police Intervention Groups)
**"Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion (RAID)" (Research, Assistance, Intervention, Deterrence)
** "Brigade Anti-Commando (BAC)" of the "Préfecture de Police de Paris" (Prefecture of Paris Police)
** "Service de Protection des Hautes Personnalités" (SPHP)

* "Gendarmerie Nationale" (National Gendarmerie)
** "Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale (GIGN)" (National Gendarmerie Intervention Group)
** "Pelotons d'Intervention de 2e Génération" (PI2G)

Germany

* "Bundespolizei" (German Federal Police) - "GSG 9" (formerly an a German abbreviation of Grenzschutzgruppe 9, 'Border Guards, Group 9')
* "Landespolizei" (State police) Spezialeinsatzkommando (SEK)
* "Zollkriminalamt" (German Customs Investigation Bureau) - "Zentrale Unterstützungsgruppe Zoll (ZUZ)"
*Mobiles_Einsatzkommando ("Mobiles Einsatzkommando", state police services and federal criminal police office)

Greece

* "Elliniki Astynomia" (Greek Police) - "Eidiki Katastaltiki Antitromokratiki Monada" (Special Anti-Terrorist Unit)

Hong Kong

* Hong Kong Police Force - Police Tactical Unit
** Special Duties Unit
** Airport Security Unit

Iceland

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

India

* National Security Guard

Indonesia

* Brigade Mobil SOF (Police Mobile Brigade)

Ireland

* Garda Síochána (national police) - Emergency Response Unit

Israel

* "Mishteret Yisrael" (Israel Police)
** "Yeḥidat Mishtara Meyuḥedet" (YAMAM)
** "Yehidat Siyur Meyuhedet" (Yasam)

Italy

* "Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza" (Italian Police)
* "Gruppo di Intervento Speciale" (Italian Carabinieri)

Japan

* "Keisatsu-chō" (National Police Agency) - "Tokushu Kyūshū Butai" (Special Assault Team or SAT)

Malaysia

* Royal Malaysia Police
** Pasukan Gerakan Khas (Special Operations Force)
** Unit Tindakan Cepat

Netherlands

* "Koninklijke Marechaussee" (Royal Marshals/Royal Military Police) - "Brigade Speciale Beveiligingsopdrachten" (Brigade Special Protection tasks)

* "Korps landelijke politiediensten" (National Police Services Agency) - "Dienst Speciale Interventies" (Special Intervention Service)

New Zealand

* New Zealand Police
** Armed Offenders Squad
** Special Tactics Group

Norway

* "Politi- og lensmannsetaten" (Norwegian Police Service) - "Beredskapstroppen" (nickname 'Delta')
*Forsvarets Spesialkommando

Philippines

; Philippine National Police
* Special Action Force
* PNP-SWAT Teams

Portugal

* "Polícia de Segurança Pública" (Public Security Police) - "Grupo de Operações Especiais (GOE)" (Special Operations Group)

Russia

* "Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del (MVD)" (Ministry of Internal Affairs) - "Otryad Militsii Osobogo Naznacheniya (OMON)" (Special Purpose Police Squad; generic name)
** "Spetsialnogo Otryad Bistrogo Reagirovannia (SOBR)" (Special Rapid Reaction Unit)

erbia

* SAJ (Special Anti-terrorist Unit)
* PTJ (Anti-terror unit)

ingapore

* Singapore Police Force - Special Tactics and Rescue (STAR)

outh Africa

* South African Police Service - Service Special Task Force (SAPS STF)

pain

* "Cuerpo Nacional de Policía" (National Police Corps) - "Grupo Especial de Operaciones (GEO)" (Special Operations Group)

Sri Lanka

*Special Task Force

weden

* "Polisen" (Swedish Police Service) - "Nationella Insatsstyrkan" (National Task Force)
* "Polisen" (Swedish Police Service) - "Piketen

Taiwan

* National Police Agency - Thunder Squad

Ukraine

* "Ministerstvo Vnutrishnikh Sprav" (Ministry of Internal Affairs) - "Berkut"

United Kingdom

* Metropolitan Police Service - Specialist Firearms Command (CO19)

United States

* Federal Bureau of Investigation - Hostage Rescue Team (FBI) SWAT

See also

* Emergency management
* List of protective service agencies