SRS officers undertook the following duties within the ACT: • Resolving
siege and
hostage situations, as well as armed offender situations; • Providing a
negotiation service in high risk and critical situations; • Undertaking searches of premises in high risk situations; • The arrest of armed and dangerous offenders; • Escorting and securing dangerous prisoners in high risk situations; • Providing support services for major operations; •
Rescue and
bomb disposal operations; •
Counter-terrorism and hijacking operations; • The escort and security of VIPs, internationally protected persons,
Heads of State; • Testing and evaluation of specialist
less than lethal weapons/devices; On occasion, SRS officers also provided support to international AFP deployments overseas prior to the formation of the
Operational Response Group [previously known as the Operational Response Team (ORT)]. Their role on such operations included: • effect high risk searches, search warrants and arrests • support to public order policing remote rural patrols • protection of people in high risk situations • support to the security of members deployed to mission. ==Units==