Essex Police have set up an elite ‘gold group’ - usually designated to deal ... of an effective response to the identified incident, crime or other matter’, according to official guidance.

How elite police units, like the Memphis Scorpion ... Memphis's Scorpion unit emerged a few years after a regional anti-crime group consulted with former New York City Police Department ...

But Memphis wasn’t the only city to turn again to specialized teams to fight a new surge in crime. By Tim Arango ... before it was shut down in 2011. Elite police units were involved in some ...

An LAPD sergeant alleging that a group of officers ... officers made it into the elite unit. The “SWAT Mafia,” he said, is led by older officers with the rank of Police Officer III +1, or ...

The case stems from a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles alleging that the unit was run by a "SWAT Mafia ... and police commanders such as McMillion and Lopez allegedly enabling the group ...

The New York Police Department's counterterrorism unit is the gold standard for major cities across the U.S. in combating domestic terrorism, an expert said. Retired Los Angeles Police Department ...

The officers were members of an elite police group in the northern state ... the victims' bodies in an attempt to cover up the crime. The bodies were found piled in a charred pickup truck in ...

Now, the strategy to cut down on crime is getting a boost through another specialized unit. Welcome to roll call for members of Philadelphia police's Elite Highway Patrol Unit. "We're really ...

as the mafia-like groups contend with falling membership and increased police crackdowns. Three senior members of the Yamaguchi-gumi visited the Hyogo Prefectural police headquarters on Monday and ...