In response to the Occupy Central Movement the police established the Special Tactical Contingent in September 2014. The media reported that the police had not officially named the contingent commonly known as the Raptors and that instead it was referred to by the police as the Elite Team or Removal Team. On 1 December 2014, the media reported that the contingent had recently been officially named as the Special Tactical Squad by the head of the Police Tactical Unit, however, days later another media outlet reported that this name was used but not official yet. The official English name the Special Tactical Contingent was first used by the police in a police publication in an article in "Offbeat" newspaper in 2016 and was used again the following year in the 2017 "Police Review" and in proceeding years. Despite the use of the official name from 2016, protesters and the media continued to use the name Special Tactical Squad for the contingent.