SWAT is an acronym in English for Special Weapons And Tactics ("Weapons and Special Tactics", in Portuguese), a United States police group that is highly specialized and trained to act in special and high-risk operations.
SWAT can also be considered a concept of a select, specialized, differentiated and obedient group, which assists and protects the civil police in situations of imminent danger.
SWAT members are usually made up of volunteer police officers, who are equipped with quite a bit of weaponry. different, compared to normal police, such as: tear gas, submachine guns, hand grenades, caravibas and rifles.
The first SWAT group emerged in the 1960s, in an attempt to combat the growing and violent crime in the city of Los Angeles.
SWAT in cinema
With the success of SWAT operations and the popularity it gained in the US and around the world, the special operations group gained a homonymous TV series in the 1970s.
In 2003, the theme became a film, under the title S.W.A.T, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez.
See also the meaning of FBI.