independent research: swat team tactics

SWAT Team Research


In my production group one of our ideas involves a SWAT team invasion so I thought for my research post I would research on how a SWAT team enters a building and the reasons why they would do so.


A SWAT is a carefully selected team of usually 24 people that are a part of the law enforcement, they go through a different type of specialised training and they are assigned to very dangerous and critical cases where it may not be safe for a normal law enforcement officer to attend. SWAT team stands for Special Weapons And Tactics. 

 


SWAT team is and American term and that is what they are called in America the UK equivalent is commonly refed to as a firearms unit, as in the UK police officers don’t carry around guns their protection consists of a Batton that can also be called a truncheon and a pepper spray, not all police carry around a taser as you must receive specialist training to do so. 

 

SWAT teams also were very protective clothing, things they may were include

• weather - proof trousers 
• weather - proof jacket 
• weather - proof shirt
• Helmet 
• body armour 
• assault webbing 
• eye gear 
• gloves knee pads
• harness 

Things a SWAT team would carry around:

• Assault rifles
• Submachine guns
• Carbines
• Shotguns
• Stringers
• Tear gas
• Grenades
• Flash bangs

There are three main roles in a SWAT team, rifle man, negotiator, and entry officer. SWAT teams are usually there to help Somone who is being held hostage or to catch people involved in illegal drugs activity.



How a hostage scenario would work:

• First of all they have every right to charge down the door and break in
• However before that the seal of the building or all surrounding areas so it gives the guy only one way out.
• Then The assigned negotiator would try and find out what the person holding the hostage wants
• The SWAT team want to make it a peaceful outcome were no one gets harmed