Firearms Units Outside The UK
Specialised armed police units are present in foreign Law enforcement agencies where officers are routinely armed. Foreign firearms units are not intended to deal with routine firearms incidents, as they are attended to by divisional officers due to them routinely carrying firearms. Such units are normally only called upon when firearms incidents are of such a nature, that they require specialist intervention. Whereas the firearms units within the United Kingdom respond to all firearms related incidents, as UK police (with the exception of Northern Ireland) are not routinely armed. Possibly some of the known foreign units are the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams of many American police departments. Other examples include Australia's Special Weapons and Operations Squad and the Singaporean Special Tactics and Rescue unit.
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