Specialist Response Group
| Specialist Response Group | |
|---|---|
| Active | 2012 - Present |
| Country |
 Australia |
| Branch | Australian Federal Police |
| Role | Law Enforcement, Domestic Counter-Terrorism, Tactical Law Enforcement, Riot control and Search and Rescue |
| Size | 106 full-time tactical/ public order police officers plus support/other positions totalling just under 200 |
| Part of | Australian Federal Police |
| Garrison/HQ | Canberra City ACT |
| Nickname(s) | SRG |
| Engagements |
Pong Su incident,2003 Canberra bushfires, 1993 Jolimont Centre siege |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander |
An AFP Commander |
Pong Su incident,2003 Canberra bushfires,
Specialist Response Group (SRG) is a highly trained police unit of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) consisting of a range of teams capable of deploying at short notice in order to undertake a variety of specialist policing tasks. SRG predominantly consist of sworn police officers, based in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), who are capable of resolving higher risk planned and emergency policing operations; both domestically and internationally. SRG are a police tactical group as defined under the Australian and New Zealand Counter-Terrorism Committee (ANZCTC) arrangements. SRG commenced operations in July 2012 as a result of the merging of the Specialist Response and Security Team (SRS) (from ACT Policing) and the Operational Response Group (ORG) from AFP’s International Deployment Group. SRG are now the largest centralised specialist policing capability in Australia, with almost 200 personnel.
AFP has had charge of local ACT Policing since 1979, and a full-time tactical unit, Specialist Response and Security team (SRS), was developed and commenced operations in 2002. Whereas SRS had responsibility for ACT Policing only, it soon became apparent that the wider AFP required tactical operators of their own for both national investigations and International Deployment Group operations. In January 2005, AFP created what was then known as the Operational Response Team (ORT), a small team of specialist tactical police able to respond and assist AFP officers engaged in the International Deployment Groups response to the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI), Solomon Islands.
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