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15 unusual facts about Swat


Berwyn Heights, Maryland

The police department called for help from the Prince George's County Sheriff's Office SOD team, but did not contact the Berwyn Heights Police Department.

Dark Rivers of the Heart

When Grant attempts to find her at her home, a SWAT-like team bombards the place, sending Grant into confusion.

Emergency Bandage

David Kleinman, a SWAT team medic who devised a first aid kit used to treat victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting, said that "deputies reached for the emergency bandage 'over and over at the scene'" of the shooting.

Hanford, Washington

The school still stands today, marred by its use during the years for SWAT practice, and can be seen from the Hanford tour bus operated by the U.S. government.

Hardhat mounted mirror

The success of mirrors mounted on bicycle helmets continued for decades, finally being adopted by construction and industrial workers as a safety device, on helmets of snowmobilers (3), and in tactical environments like Airsoft and SWAT applications adding a similar level of safety as mirrors on vehicles.

High Standard Model 10

Crouch's goal was to create the ultimate entry shotgun for SWAT and tactical units.

Jose Guerena shooting

Jose Guerena was a U.S. Marine veteran who served in the Iraq War and was killed in his Tucson, Arizona home, on May 5, 2011, by officers of the Pima County SWAT team, while they were executing a warrant to search his home in relation to an ongoing investigation into drug smuggling.

Machine pistol

In a law enforcement context, machine pistols may be used by tactical police units such as SWAT teams or hostage rescue teams which are operating inside buildings and other cramped spaces, although they tend to use submachine guns instead.

Miangul Asfandyar Amir Zeb

Asfandyar Amir Zeb,(اسفندىاراميرزيب) Gujjar (1965-2007),s assasination(December 12, 2007) was the first high profile killing by the Taliban militant of Swat a few day after the killing of Benazir Bhutto.

Modular Integrated Communications Helmet

They have become popular with various SWAT units and private security companies.

Platte Canyon High School

Once SWAT members approached, one of the female hostages, identified as 16-year-old Emily Keyes, was shot and critically wounded.

Rapid reaction force

When used in reference to police forces such as SWAT teams, the time frame is minutes, while in military applications, such as with the use of paratroops or other commandos, the time frame is hours to days.

SWAT

Other training that could be given to potential members includes training in explosives, sniper-training, defensive tactics, first-aid, negotiation, handling K9 units, rappelling and roping techniques and the use of specialized weapons and equipment.

SWAT: Target Liberty

But later on, he and his team discovers that Al-Qaeda forces are planning to pin the blame on the North Korean government for the explosion of a nuclear weapon on American soil.

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville shooting

A SWAT team was then activated and approximately an hour after the first officers arrived, police entered the office and found the bodies of Locke and Kelly with a handgun on the floor between them.


Bechowiec-1

Until July 1944, 11 were completed in Czerwona Góra and at least two in Jan Swat's workshop in Broniszowice.

Beijing Special Weapons and Tactics Unit

The Beijing SWAT Unit is divided into sub-units consisting of but not limited to: a Helicopter Unit (飞虎队; nicknamed Flying Tigers), an Underwater Diving team (蛙人队; nicknamed Frogmen), female SWAT unit (女子特警队) and a Police Dog Unit (警犬队).

Browne–Fitzpatrick privilege case, 1955

Gavin Souter has described it as the House using its new Mace to swat two blowflies.

Chitral District

It shares a border with Gilgit-Baltistan to the east, with Afghnistans Kunar, Badakshan and Nuristan provinces to the north and west, and with Swat and Dir to the south.

Christophe Naudin

Before 1995, he was instructor in aviation security for the French swat police (CRS – Compagnie Républicaine de Sécurité) for airport security and border control, before the pre-privatization measures with the equivalent of TSA Transportation Security Administration.

Cincinnati Red

He soon renamed himself to Cincinnati Red and joined the National Wrestling Conference, where he debuted on March 17, 1995 in a three-on-one handicap match, which he, RJ Rodriguez and The Wild Renegade lost to SWAT.

Colby Granger

ACP caliber Springfield Armory Custom TRP (Tactical Response Pistol) Professional Model, which indicates he is SWAT/HRT qualified, as only SWAT/HRT qualified FBI agents are authorized to carry that weapon on duty.

Fugitive Strike Force

The series shows footage of criminals being arrested by three different corps, the U.S. Marshals, the SWAT and Bounty Hunters.

International Marxist Tendency

In 2012 the IMT published an article denouncing the attempted assassination of Malala Yousafzai, claiming she is an IMT sympathizer and showing a picture of her speaking at an IMT school in Swat, Pakistan.

Kromagg

Their officers dress in grey uniforms similar to Wehrmacht uniforms, while their troops dress in black "SWAT"-type uniforms.

LAPD Hooper Heliport

The Piper Technical Center is also used as a parking lot for some of the LAPD's motor pool including marked and un-marked units, vans, buses, motorcycles, and the V-100 SWAT armored cars.

Lockdown

On 19 April 2013, the entire city of Boston was locked down and all public transportation stopped during the manhunt for Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspects of the 2013 Boston bombings, while the town of Watertown was under heavy-armed police and SWAT surveillance, as well as systematic house-to-house searches.

LWRC M6

Additionally, the weapon was featured on the Spike TV show Deadliest Warrior, in the episode "SWAT versus GSG-9", as the main carbine for the SWAT team.

Marshall Ledbetter

The police surrounded the capitol building and set up SWAT teams and snipers throughout the area, while Marshall Ledbetter demanded that the police get the following people on the telephone so that he could talk to them: Timothy Leary, Jello Biafra, Ice Cube and Lemmy Kilmister.

Miangul Aurangzeb

After the resignation of President Ayub Khan in 1969, the Government of Pakistan under President Yahya Khan took over the administration of all the remaining princely states including Swat.

Miangul Jahan Zeb

Miangul Jahan Zeb(ميانگل جهان زيب ؛ اردو) (1987–1908), Gujar, formally Miangul Abdul-Haqq Jahan Zeb was former ruler of the princely state of Swat currently part of Pakistan and formally titled the Wāli.

Mike McPheters

He was involved with the formation of the Miami SWAT team and the investigation of the D. B. Cooper hijacking as well as one of the many ultimately futile investigations of the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance.

Mose Solomon

Mose Hirsch Solomon, nicknamed the Rabbi of Swat (December 8, 1900, on the Lower East Side in Manhattan – June 25, 1966, Miami, Florida) was an American left-handed baseball player who briefly played for the New York Giants in 1923.

No-knock warrant

Jefferson County District Attorney Dave Thomas investigated the matter and cleared the officers involved with the raid on the grounds that Mena had pointed a gun and fired it at SWAT officers, although who fired first remains unknown.

Pakhli

In Babur's time this tract was held by the Khakha and Bambha tribes, whose chiefs had been the ancient rulers of the country east of the Indus but had been driven out by the Gibari or Jahangiri Sultans of Bajawar and Swat.

Presentation Convent High School, Murree

Some of them include Presentation Convent Schools located in Rawalpindi, Peshawar, Jhelum, Sargodha, (Khushab Distt.), Wah, Risalpur, Mingora (Swat) and in Sindh.

Presentation Convent High School, Sargodha

Today in Pakistan there are Presentation schools catering for the educational needs of around thirteen thousand children in Urdu- and English-medium schools, in Rawalpindi, Murree, Jhelum, Peshawar, (Khushab District), Wah, Risalpur, Mingora (Swat) and Sindh.

Presentation Convent School, Peshawar

There are Presentation schools in Rawalpindi, Murree, Jhelum, Sargodha, (Khushab Distt.), Wah, Risalpur, Mingora (Swat) and in Sindh.

Rodger Corser

From 2008-2010 Corser starred as Lawson Blake in the Australian police drama Rush, which follows the lives of members of the prestigious Tactical Response team (TR), which is based on the real life Victoria Police Critical Incident Response Team, a highly mobile unit that fills the operational gap between general duties police and the SWAT-like Special Operations Group.

Shamozai

Shamozai is a union council, sub tehsil (Tehsil:Barikot) (District:Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) and a group of villages also known as Aalaqa (area) Shamozai located on the right bank of Swat River bordering district Dir, Malakand Agency and Tehsil Kabal of District:Swat.

Sky Swat

In 2006, SWAT was introduced at Six Flags New England as Catapult along with another Astroworld ride, Splash Water Falls.

St. Louis Police Department

Traffic Safety - Mounted Patrol -SWAT - Canine - Public Transportation - Aviation In 1925 the Traffic Division was located at 208 South Twelfth in the Central District and Headquarters .

SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron

Jake Clawson (alias: Razor) (voiced by Barry Gordon) - The smaller member of the SWAT Kats, who is a mechanical genius.

Thomas George Montgomerie

Montgomerie recruited a number of individuals to survey Chitral and Badakhshan, including Hyder Shah, who in 1870 traveled through the princely states of Swat and Dir and Badakhshan.

Truck art in Pakistan

Karachi is a major bedecking center for such trucks, though there are other hubs in Rawalpindi, Swat, Peshawar, Quetta and Lahore.

Unit 326

The rest of the unit was folded into other elite units, such as Forcat e Nderhyrjes se Shpejte FNSh (Rapid Intervention Forces), organized according to the French CRS (Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité), and U.S. SWAT.