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You are quoting stats on the Armed Offender squads, which are analogous to US SWAT teams. Kim Dotcom was taken by the anti-terrorism Special Tactics Group, whi
by jhayward 9y ago
You are quoting stats on the Armed Offender squads, which are analogous to US SWAT teams.
Kim Dotcom was taken by the anti-terrorism Special Tactics Group, which is definitely not the Armed Offender Squad. They train with SAS, and are explicitly designed to take on high risk terrorist assaults. I'm asking how often they are deployed, and of course implicitly, whether serving warrants for copyright infringement is in their usual bailiwick.
- jashmatthews 9y agoYes, serving warrants and raiding gang houses is what the STG normally do in their jobs as Armed Offenders Squad officers. They're the same officers. The equipment is exactly the same. It just means it's the top few officers who get to train with the SAS. We don't have a separate military police force in New Zealand.