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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: Death squad, SWAT, Secret police, Firearms unit, Water police, Fire police, List of gendarmeries, State police, List of mounted police units, Cold case, UNGERIN, Security police, Railroad police, Latvian Auxiliary Police, Special police, PIDE, Transit police, County police, Garda Emergency Response Unit, Estonian Auxiliary Police, Campus police, Emergency Task Force, Highway patrol, Operational Response Group, Missing person, Constabulary, State bureau of investigation, Critical Incident Response Team, Special Emergency Response Team, FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams, Victoria Police Special Operations Group, Police Tactical Group, Territorial police force, Field Force, County detective, Hostage Barricade Team, Hospital police, Major Case Squad, Serious Crimes Unit, Company police, International Police, UNTAET Crime Scene Detachment, Fatal Accident Reconstruction Team, Schutzmannschaft Front Bataillon 36 Arensburg, Polizei-Bataillon 33, Rapid reaction force, Airport police, City guard, Park police, Municipal Integrated Emergency Response Team. Excerpt: A death squad is an armed military, police, insurgent, or terrorist squad that conducts extrajudicial killings, assassinations, and forced disappearances of persons as part of a war, insurgency or terror campaign. These killings are often conducted in ways meant to ensure the secrecy of the killers' identities, so as to avoid accountability. Death squads are often, but not exclusively, associated with the violent political repression under dictatorships, totalitarian states and similar regimes. They typically have the tacit or express support of the state, as a whole or in part (see state terrorism). Death squads may comprise a secret police force, paramilitary group or official government units with members drawn from the military or the police. They may also be...
