Cdo is King of the Field.
SOF is King of the Urban.
What and where does the police's STAR stands?
There is already an unit for counter-terrorism (SOF), then what is the role of STAR?
Special Tactics and Rescue Team...
more of a para military elite force ah...
"It is an elite, well trained and well equipped unit to apprehend armed criminals and conduct hostage rescue operations on land and at sea. It has formidable firepower, all-terrain mobility and is capable of helicopter-borne insertion. Besides dealing with highly dangerous criminals, STAR is also involved in risky protective security operations and prisoner escort."
STAR under the Police... They should be the King of Urban i guess, SOF is more of the "All-rounder"
urm..i think King of the Battlefield is Arty from history.....
agree with wonderamazement that SOF more all-rounded cos they do all kindsa Special Ops....urban or conventional alike...
one is a military unit ... the other is made up of civilians .... in my mind there's grounds for comparisons ....
lets say if there is another hijack incident, will they send in the SOF or STAR this time?
Originally posted by Arena:lets say if there is another hijack incident, will they send in the SOF or STAR this time?
if im not wrong, if they are making political demands then its SOF. If not then its STAR.
Originally posted by rain-coat:if im not wrong, if they are making political demands then its SOF. If not then its STAR.
yeps ... sounds reasonable .... i get the impression that the SOF will deal with terrorist incidents, while STAR will deal with the common criminals ...
Isnt our STAR like the US SWAT?
Originally posted by rain-coat:if im not wrong, if they are making political demands then its SOF. If not then its STAR.
True... Sounds logical too. STAR will be for like hostage situations, robberies, hold ups and all that... Like that Dave Teo incident, STAR did the job.
The main and most important difference between SOF and STAR is that SOF is military and STAR is under police.
It may sound like I'm stating the obvious, but please think carefully. For many reasons, if police is able to handle, they and their special unit will handle situation. Else if situations get out of hand (in SG we may never have a situation that goes out of hand la i guess, coz we're all too tamed to start riots), military power will come in hand.
So the roles of SOF and STAR will mostly never cross.