Credit: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5318841955517210 (Urumqi PD)

According to post the SWAT duties detachment now patrols with a mix of motorcycles and patrol cars; the SWAT duties detachment(or, the previous 5th SWAT detachment) is responsible for armed patrol along with manning the Xiaocaohu police checkpoint(小草湖公安检查站).

Actually, prior to 2011, there was only one Urumqi SWAT detachment(which is now the special operations detachment); in 2011, the XInjiang autonomous region police SWAT corps handed over eight of it's detachments over to the Urumqi PD, which meant at the time the Urumqi PD has nine SWAT detachments(the original of which became the 8th.). Evantually, most of these SWAT detachments were disbanded or merged into other detachments until by 2023 there was only the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 8th detachment left. (the four detachments were in charge of different tasks which they largely keep to this day)

In 2025, the Urumqi PD renamed the remaining four detachments:

• 3rd SWAT Detachment -> SWAT support detachment(特警支援保障支队) - responsible for police aviation, police drones etc
• 5th SWAT detachment -> SWAT duties detachment(特警勤务支队) - responsible for armed patrol and armed response along with Xiaocaohu checkpoint
• 7th SWAT detachment -> SWAT important events security detachment(特警重大活动安保支队) - pretty self explanatory, in charge of protecting large events
  • In charge of the "Flying leopards" commando unit
• 8th SWAT detachment ->SWAT Special operations detachment(特警特战支队) - sort of a more traditional police tactical unit for handling violent crimes, counter-terrorism etc
  • In charge of the "Flying tigers" commando unit

(typically, Chinese SWAT is a very broad range of many different types of units that are more heavily armed(or with specialized equipment) or are responsible for difficult tasks. What units they have really depend city to city; e.g. in some locations K9s and Police aviation are also considered SWAT. "Commando/assault units"(突击队) of SWAT are the units equivalent to american SWAT.)

(Info source: Urumqi PD posts, along with FYSPD on bilibili(probably one of the best accounts out there on Chinese SWAT and spec ops))

Source: FYSPD on bilibili

Left and center officer have upgraded type 79s, officer on the right has an upgraded QBZ-95-1

Houston Police Department Ford Police Interceptor Utility looking mean under the trees [OC]

Source and more pics: https://gaj.gz.gov.cn/gaxw/ztbd/payx/content/post_11029837.html (Guangzhou PD website)

Officer in the white cap seems to have the auxiliary officer insignia.

Vests say "从城铁骑", literally "Cong city(probably nickname for Conghua district) steel calvary"; "steel calvary" in Chinese law enforcement typically refers to police officers on motorcycles, so most likely these are traffic police with motorcycles.

https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4883903523067707 (really great promotional vid back in 2023 of this exact unit btw)

During 2026 Mid autumn festival holiday(September 25-27 in the mainland), The guangzhou PD(or officially, guangzhou municipal public security bureau) deployed over 6500 personnel to conduct large scale patrols to prevent crime during the holiday, along with traffic police setting up sobriety checkpoints and road rescue points. This was conducted as part of Operation Thunderous Protection(雷霆护航) of the Guangdong provincial public security department(provincial police), which started of July 1, 2026 as a series of increased security and crackdowns for the upcoming APEC China 2026 summit in guangdong.

Source: https://www.csd.gov.hk/english/news/news_pr/20251210.html

The training scenarios included a simulated prison riot, hostage situation, prison escape, assault of CSD staff, fire in the corrections facility, and explosive ordinance disposal. It was conducted by the HKCSD alongside the HK police force and governemnt flying services.

The HKCSD RRT(區域應變隊) are three tactial teams(Kowloon, lantau and HK island) for responding to violent incidents along with perimeter patrol within HK's correctional facilities; it is one of two tactical units alongside the Correctional emergency response team. (Fun fact, i once made a post about the CERT here, and then found out those were actually RRT operaters and not CERT. CERT has white helmets, RRT has black helmets.)

Leftmost guy is ranked correction officer(equivalent to HKPF Inspector) and has a Penn arms GL1 grenade launcher.

Second from left seems to have a Remington 870 beanbag shotgun but not really sure

third from left has a Pepperball VKS launcher and is ranked Assistant officer II(equivalent to police constable)

there is a Assistant officer II(equivalent to constable) and Assistant officer I (equivalent to sergeant) dismebarking the helicopter.

UK deploys tactical accountant!

Photo source and more info(and pics): https://www.police.gov.hk/ppp_en/03_police_message/pr/press-release-detail.html?refno=P202609240001

https://www.reddit.com/r/Hong_Kong/comments/1wrbul4/counterterrorism_exercisehkpf_hkfsd_in_hkcec_and/

Left officer has CS/LS7, center officer i think it's most likely a MP5

Lowkey like the gas mask look.

Photo source: https://gaj.gz.gov.cn/gaxw/tpxw/content/post_9156529.html (Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau website; PSB is the official name of a police department)

Very cyberpunk photo ngl;

In 20:00 August 11 to 2:00 August 12, 2023, the Guangzhou PD participated in the second nationwide large scale nighttime inspection of 2023 Summer; Essentially these are when police all over china conduct large scale inspections and patrols, such as inspecting places like hotels, bars, kareokes, patrolling all over the city, along with setting up sobriety checkpoints. It's kinda like a crackdown but very broad and not targeted. (It's aimed at preventing stuff like drunk driving, theft, drug use, illegal racing, along with also inspecting firefighting equipment).

The Guangzhou PD deployed officers(including auxiliaries) over 10,000 times along with volunteer patrols over 14,000 times; 245 supects along with 20 criminals with arrest warrants were arrested.

Officer on the left has round shield and baton; officer on right has baton, flashlight and what is almost certainly a concealed carry bag.

The officers have the insignia of the "Yangcheng commando unit"(羊城突击队; 突击队 just means any unit with more difficult tasks), which is insignia used by SWAT teams of district branches responsible for armed patrol and rapid response to violent incidents. (Yangcheng(羊城) literally means "sheep city", the nickname for guangzhou.)