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Swat

1. a former princely state of NW India: passed to Pakistan in 1947
2. a river in Pakistan, rising in the north and flowing south to the Kabul River north of Peshawar. Length: about 640 km (400 miles)
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According to Department of the Army police lieutenant, Blair Rockwell, the officer in charge of the Fort Bragg Special Reaction Team (SRT), 16th Military Police Brigade, the competition brings SWAT teams together to compete against each other for the top spot.
He said the Dubai SWAT team is the emirate's "small army", adding: "The Sharjah officials came to us for help and we dealt with the case.
The Worcester police SWAT team converged on 25 Cargill Ave.
The California Department of Corrections had a SWAT team present-its leader, Lieutenant Adam Dennis, told me the corrections department is actually the largest SWAT agency in the state, with 495 officers across 19 locations.
An ordinary middle-class family was going about their business at their home when a SWAT team from our city police department descended on them.
So on January 4, 2008, a SWAT team busted down Wilson's door and opened fire.
The ACLU reported that law enforcement agencies are providing SWAT team members with more militaristic training that teaches them to think like soldiers.
He was finally found in Michelle Thibodeau's garden and as officers trained their guns on him, she heard him say: "I'm done." The 21-year-old tweeted: "The swat team arrived at my house and unloaded and started screaming in my backyard for him to surrender and he did.
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