The abbreviation of S W A T is special weapon and tactics. The highly risked operations are carried out by this S W A T team. When a person is caught as a hostage, S W A T team try their level best to save those hostages. At the same time, S W A T academy members are responsible for the counter terrorism activities. Sometimes, when a situation arise where a s.w.a.t team or some other great personality are in need to be arrested, under such a situation, S W A T team members carry out the arresting activities. S W A T team members are trained at handling special fire arms such as assault rifles, riot control agents, sniper rifles, sub machine guns etc. The inventor of SWAT team is Daryl Gates.

He was working in the Los Angeles Department of Police in the year 1968. In later stages, each and every police department stated to own an elite group for themselves. And these groups were collectively called as s w a t. the developer of S W A T team had mentioned in his autobiography as he is not responsible for the swat job completely. He just lent his valuable advice and encouraged the S W A T team with his moral support. At the beginning SWAT was named as Special Weapon Assault Team but later it got changed to special weapon and tactics. The very first swat operation was held at los angles. The reporters of los angles carried the swat operations lively to the people of America. One of the officers of American police department noticed the SWAT jobs very keenly and he started with the new team named LAPD. The famous officer was none other than John Nelson. He also emerged with his own ideas such as shooting and managing critical situations.