Special Weapons and Tactics

**Special Weapons and Tactics**, also known as the **S.W.A.T.**, is a team that has jurisdiction all over the United States. There is also the Incident Response Team from Interpol.

## History

On March 24, 2004; Zander Smith held Emily Quartermaine hostage at an apartment and is surrounded by a S.W.A.T. team with district attorney Ric Lansing. He is shot by the SWAT team when he pretended to reach for a gun before the arrival of Epiphany Johnson and Diane Miller two years later.

In 2014, Detectives Dante Falconeri and Nathan West lead a team to capture Peter Harrell, Jr. and free his hostages Lulu Spencer and Maxie Jones before the arrival of Peter Jr.'s counterpart Kyle Sloane after the deaths of Peter Harrell, Sr. and Peter Jr.

On September 23, 2019; Dev Cerci got a hold of Sam McCall in attempt to call Jason Morgan. He told Sam he was on the Haunted Star before being knocked out. Sam arrived and found Dev unconscious and was surprised to see that "Shiloh" who bore a striking resemblance to the late Nathan West was on the boat along with "Wiley Quartermaine-Corinthos." Shiloh was armed and dangerous and was wearing a police officer uniform while holding all three of them hostage using the aliases Dante Falconeri and Nathan West in revenge for Jerry Jacks who escaped from prison and is nowhere to be found because of Dante's PTSD. Sam tried to talk Shiloh down and she convinced him to let her hold "Wiley." Sam tried to convince him to let Dev and Wiley go and just use her as a hostage, although Shiloh initially refused, however he eventually agreed when Sam warned him about "Wiley" being caught in the middle of a firefight since he is being hunted by the P.C.P.D., a bunch of S.W.A.T. teams, and the FBI plus he said he had too many hostages.

On June 3, 2021; Commissioner Jordan Ashford talks to a S.W.A.T. captain and threatens to send them in after Cyrus Renault who is holding Dr. Portia Robinson and her daughter Trina Robinson hostage in their house in revenge for the late Cesar Faison and Hank Archer aka Shiloh. Mayor Laura Collins and Portia's boyfriend Curtis Ashford arrive when they tried to get Portia on the phone. With Laura there both as Cyrus' sister and as the mayor. Dr. Kevin Collins and Portia's ex-husband Detective Marcus Taggert arrive shortly after - Kevin has a hostage negotiator and Cyrus' brother-in-law and Taggert as Trina's father. Kevin convinces Cyrus to let the Robinson ladies go in exchange for Laura - and Jordan tells S.W.A.T. to standby as she and Kevin listen to Laura try to talk her brother down. After Trina tells him about another way in, Curtis sneaks inside in an attempt to take down Cyrus and free Laura. Cyrus sees him and shoots him in the stomach, causing Jordan to kick down the door and shoot him in the leg, with S.W.A.T. and the others following her to treat Curtis. Curtis and Cyrus are rushed to the hospital with Jordan arresting Cyrus.

In April 2023; Ric, Diane, Diane's children Keith and Sally Miller, Martin Grey, and Ava Jerome undergo extensive training to join S.W.A.T. in order to help the P.C.P.D., the WSB, the FBI, and Interpol rescue Liesl Obrecht, Spencer Cassadine, Ace Prince-Cassadine, and Trina Robinson from Victor Cassadine and his men and women on the Haunted Star as Ric knows that his daughter Molly Lansing-Davis is the Assistant District Attorney.

## Personnel

### Full time

* Captain Gerald Brodin
* Officer Jude Lanston

### Part time

* Asher Bellamy
* Brick
* Sonny Corinthos
* Nicolas Dean
* Martin Grey
* Dex Heller
* Tara Horowitz
* Ava Jerome
* Ric Lansing
* Diane Miller
* Keith Miller
* Sally Miller

### Incident Response Team

* Ashton - United Kingdom
* Brown - United States
* Fredriksen - Norway
* Lundqvist - Sweden
* Mäkinen - Finland
* McCullough - United States
* Schultz - Switzerland
* Thorsen - Denmark
* Vasilyev - Russia
* Vogel - Germany