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Special Emergency Response Team

Former unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Special Emergency Response Team (SERT) was an elite police tactical unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The SERT was formed in 1986 to provide a tactical capability to respond to major terrorist incidents throughout Canada. The unit was disbanded in 1993 when responsibility for counter-terrorist response transferred from the RCMP to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Special Emergency Response Team” as former unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Special, Emergency and Response can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as former unit of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1986 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Special Emergency Response Team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.