Australian Federal Police Superintendent Phillippa Connell described the squad as 'one of Australia's best kept secrets'. 9News
It's called the Tactical Response Team and before today, television cameras have never been allowed to capture its members at work.
Officers advanced on their target in an armoured bearcat, before using a chainsaw and an explosive strip to force their way into a building.Within seconds, the threat was taken out.As one operative, who cannot be identified for security reasons, puts it: "We don't know when they're coming ... no job is ever the same".The Tactical Response Team recruits are set up with a human performance coach.
In 2021, operatives captured suspects netted by Operation Ironside and the 'ANOM' app, which duped criminal syndicates into communicating via an encrypted messaging platform created by authorities.The Tactical Response Team can be called to duty at a moment's notice. In 2021 the team spent eight months helping restore order in the Solomon Islands after violent riots left Honiara in ruins.Australian Federal Police Superintendent Phillippa Connell.
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