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; Official Names
:National Police Agency - Special Assault Team

:Special Assault Team

:SAT


; Nicknames
SAT


; Branch
:National Police Agency


; Chain of Command
:Directly subordinate to the National Police Agency


; Description
:The National Police Agency's Counter-Terrorist Unit


;Readiness
:Stationed at 8 locations with 300 operatives, including the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters.


; Specializations
: Counter-terrorism (CT), special projects (SP), counter revolutionary warfare (CRW), quick reaction force (QRF)


; Headquarters
:Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Tokyo


; Motto
: Unknown

; Creation date
: April 1, 1996


; Reason for creation
: To serve as the means of countering potential terrorist groups that may strike against any target in Japanese soil under the mandate of the National Police Agency.


: To assist regular and special police units (e.g. Special Investigation Team ) in subduing high-risk criminals anywhere in Japan.





The Special Assault Team is the official civilian counter-terrorist unit under the Japanese National Police Agency . Like the GSG 9 and the SAS , most information on the unit has been confidential, its existence officially revealed only in 1995.


HISTORY

(To be updated)

1977 - First units were established in Tōkyō and Ōsaka as Special Armed Police (SAP) units.


ORGANIZATION

The Tōkyō branch, officially called "Special Operations Company" (特科中隊), is under 6th Mobile Unit, Security Department of Tōkyō Metropolitan Police Department (警視庁警備部第六機動隊). In Ōsaka Prefecture, it was created under the 2nd Mobile Unit (第二機動隊) and was unofficially called the "Zero Company" (零中隊).

Currently other branches exist in prefectural police departments of Hokkaidō, Chiba, Kanagawa, Aichi, Fukuoka and Okinawa. Nationwide SAT maintains about 300 personnel.


WEAPONS



Submachine Guns



Sniper Rifles

  • Heckler & Koch MP5 PSG-1

  • Remington M700



Handguns/Revolvers



IN FICTION

  • The SAT is seen in First President Of Japan as they attempt to retake the Mihama nuclear power plant in the Fukui Prefecture from North Korean agents. Almost all are killed and the situation forces the JGSDF to deploy Red Card operatives in their place.

  • Seen in the early stages of Deleted Scenes in in the Japan stage. They are called Kidoutai, though this may be an error on the part of the developers. This was later omitted in the final version, though it could still be accessed.

  • SAT operatives in Stand Alone Complex are very active during the supposed reemergence of the Laughing Man .

  • An SAT operative can be used in the Lethal Enforcers stage of Lethal Enforcers 3 .

  • One of the characters in Police 911 2 is an SAT operator armed with a Heckler and Koch MP5K Submachine gun.

  • In the PSP version of Stand Alone Complex , Hiruma demands that Aramaki call on SAT operatives to Berutarube since he is convinced that terrorists are still in the area. Aramaki denies the request because he says that Section 9 is on the case.

  • A Japanese SWAT 3 MOD allows players to use an SAT assaulter skin. An SAT mod also exists for Counter-Strike .

  • SAT units are deployed in Tokyo's subway system in the movie Kôshônin Mashita Masayoshi (Negotiator Mashita Masayoshi) after a mad bomber hijacks a prototype train with passengers aboard as hostages.

  • In the Anime Elfen Lied , SAT forces are used to track down and capture Lucy / Nyu as the response of the Japanese government over their disappearance. Bandou is one of the fictional members of the SAT.



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