The Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) are specialist part-time units of the New Zealand Police based around the country available to respond to high risk incidents...
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The Armed Offenders Squad was a unit of Victoria Police in Australia tasked with investigating non-fatal violent crimes. Subject to frequent complaints...
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Special Tactics Group (redirect from Anti Terrorist Squad)
with armed incidents that are beyond the capability of the part-time Armed Offenders Squad, of which they are also members. While the Armed Offenders Squad...
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assist the police was also shot. Over 100 police officers, including Armed Offenders Squad and Special Tactics Group members, were brought in to contain the...
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dictionary. AOS, Aos or AoS may refer to: Armed Offenders Squad, a branch of the New Zealand Police Armed Offenders Squad (Victoria), a disbanded branch of the...
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the truck driver Michael Woolf as the Armed Offenders Squad leader Andrew Dungan at the young Armed Offenders Squad member Frank Prythetch as the gang leader...
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Aramoana massacre (section Anti-Terrorist Squad)
(Supplement). 17 February 1992. pp. 2783–2784. (Forbes 1997, p. 203) "Armed Offenders Squads". New Zealand Police. Archived from the original on 17 October 2008...
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NZSAS troopers were utilised to instruct early New Zealand Police Armed Offenders Squad members in field craft and weapon handling. This training relationship...
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the town of Ruatoki. About 300 police, including members of the Armed Offenders Squad and Special Tactics Group, were involved in the raids, which involved...
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New Zealand Police (section Armed response teams)
cannabis eradication operations. In 1964, the Armed Offenders Squad (AOS) was created to provide a specialist armed response unit, similar to the Metropolitan...
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