SWAT teams are trained to a national standard and utilize the same equipment which enables a team to provide assistance to another field office team. SWAT teams are specially trained to serve warrants and intervene in high-risk incidents such as active shooters and barricaded suspects and provide protection of personnel or dignitaries. Following the Wounded Knee siege in 1973, the FBI established a regional SWAT program to organize SWAT teams and provide qualified command personnel.
The Firearms Unit at the FBI Academy began developing SWAT teams in the early 1970s.
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