I hear different words for police tactical teams, like SWAT, SERT, and SED. Whats the difference between them?
There really isn’t any difference other than the name. SWAT is the most common, standing for Special Weapons and Training. Many cities don’t like the hard image that name implies, so they call it other things. After all, SWAT implies a bunch of highly-trained tactical police officers running around in camouflage fatigues carrying machine guns and worse, just itching to go in there and get the bad guy. When in actuality, what you really have is a bunch of highly-trained tactical police officers running around in camouflage fatigues carrying machine guns and worse, just itching to go in there and get the bad guy. SERT stands for Special Emergency Response Team. SED stands for Special Enforcement Division. No matter what the name, the job is always the same. Go into the most frightening of situations and do what the regular cops can’t do. Once, we all sat down and tried to come up with various acronyms that might fit the bill. Though nobody at a level higher than sergeant liked it, the on
