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SEK (Germany)
The Spezialeinsatzkommando (SEK, "Special Task Force") are police tactical units of each of the 16 German state police forces that specialize in a quick response with SWAT unit tactics to emergencies. Along with the Mobiles Einsatzkommando (MEK), Personenschutzkommando (bodyguards), and the Verhandlungsgruppe (negotiation teams in some states), they are part of the police Spezialeinheiten (special operations units) of each state force.
Mainly unrecognized by the media and public, the main missions of SEK units include providing paramilitary operations in urban areas, apprehension of armed and dangerous criminals, high-risk law enforcement situations, hostage rescue crisis management, serving of high-risk arrest warrants, supporting counterterrorism activities, and raids, as well as other scenarios like providing personal security details for VIPs or witnesses. Since the 1970s, each SEK has handled several thousand deployments. The front-runner is the SEK of the Berlin Police with up to 500 deployments a year, an average of 1.4 deployments a day.
The comparable unit of the German Federal Police is the GSG 9.
It was in 1972 where the SEK and MEK units were being established, in the aftermath of the Munich Massacre. In 1974, the first SEK unit was raised in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia's police force.
After West and East Germany were unified in 1990, some ex-officers of the Diensteinheit IX (DIX) in the Volkspolizei were merged into the SEKs after thorough political evaluation procedures, such as with SEK units in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Sachsen-Anhalt.
The SEK received a name change from Sondereinsatzkommando to Spezialeinsatzkommando in 2013, because the former is usually associated with Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann, a unit in the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) tasked with overseeing the deportation of Hungary's Jewish residents.
In 2015, the SEK was called in to intervene in Erfurt, Thuringia after a 48-year-old man barricaded himself in his apartment and acted violently towards emergency medical personnel. A SEK operative was wounded during the raid.
In 2015, the SEK Cologne was accused of harassment while performing an initiation ritual on a new member. These charges were later dropped. Ex-GSG9 commander Ulrich Wegener accused the SEK of being poorly disciplined since the officers were not punished. A Reichsbürgerbewegung supporter was confronted by the police in 2016 in Bavaria with the SEK deployed. One operative was shot dead after they were ordered to seize the man's weapons due to him being mentally unfit to handle them.
SEK (Germany)
The Spezialeinsatzkommando (SEK, "Special Task Force") are police tactical units of each of the 16 German state police forces that specialize in a quick response with SWAT unit tactics to emergencies. Along with the Mobiles Einsatzkommando (MEK), Personenschutzkommando (bodyguards), and the Verhandlungsgruppe (negotiation teams in some states), they are part of the police Spezialeinheiten (special operations units) of each state force.
Mainly unrecognized by the media and public, the main missions of SEK units include providing paramilitary operations in urban areas, apprehension of armed and dangerous criminals, high-risk law enforcement situations, hostage rescue crisis management, serving of high-risk arrest warrants, supporting counterterrorism activities, and raids, as well as other scenarios like providing personal security details for VIPs or witnesses. Since the 1970s, each SEK has handled several thousand deployments. The front-runner is the SEK of the Berlin Police with up to 500 deployments a year, an average of 1.4 deployments a day.
The comparable unit of the German Federal Police is the GSG 9.
It was in 1972 where the SEK and MEK units were being established, in the aftermath of the Munich Massacre. In 1974, the first SEK unit was raised in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia's police force.
After West and East Germany were unified in 1990, some ex-officers of the Diensteinheit IX (DIX) in the Volkspolizei were merged into the SEKs after thorough political evaluation procedures, such as with SEK units in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Sachsen-Anhalt.
The SEK received a name change from Sondereinsatzkommando to Spezialeinsatzkommando in 2013, because the former is usually associated with Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann, a unit in the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) tasked with overseeing the deportation of Hungary's Jewish residents.
In 2015, the SEK was called in to intervene in Erfurt, Thuringia after a 48-year-old man barricaded himself in his apartment and acted violently towards emergency medical personnel. A SEK operative was wounded during the raid.
In 2015, the SEK Cologne was accused of harassment while performing an initiation ritual on a new member. These charges were later dropped. Ex-GSG9 commander Ulrich Wegener accused the SEK of being poorly disciplined since the officers were not punished. A Reichsbürgerbewegung supporter was confronted by the police in 2016 in Bavaria with the SEK deployed. One operative was shot dead after they were ordered to seize the man's weapons due to him being mentally unfit to handle them.