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Police tactical units of each German state

Spezialeinsatzkommando (SEK, "Special Task Force") are police tactical units of each of the 16 German State Police forces. Along with the Mobiles Einsatzkommando (MEK), Personenschutzkommando (bodyguards), and the Verhandlungsgruppe (negotiation teams in some states), they are part of the police Spezialeinheiten of each state. Mainly unrecognized by the media and public, the main missions of SEK units are to serve high risk arrest warrants and to deal with barricaded suspects. Hostage sieges, kidnappings, and raids also belong to their missions as well as other scenarios like personal security details for VIPs or witnesses. Since the 1970s, each SEK has handled several thousand deployments. The front runner is the SEK of the Berlin Police with up to 500 deployments a year, an average of 1.4 deployments a day. The comparable unit of the German Federal Police is the GSG 9.

In 1974, the first SEK unit was raised in police forces of the state of North Rhine Westphalia. After West and East Germany were unified in 1990, some ex officers of the Diensteinheit IX in the Volkspolizei were merged into the SEKs after thorough political evaluation procedures, such as with SEK units in Mecklenburg Vorpommern and in Sachsen Anhalt. The SEK received a name change from Sondereinsatzkommando to Spezialeinsatzkommando, announced in 2013, because the former is usually associated with Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann, a unit in the Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) tasked with overseeing the deportation of Hungary's Jewish residents. In 2015, the SEK was called in to intervene in Erfurt, Thuringia after a 48 year old man barricaded himself in his apartment and acted violently towards emergency medical personnel. An SEK operator was wounded during the raid. In 2015, the SEK Cologne has been accused of harassment while performing an initiation ritual on a new member. These charges were later dropped. Meanwhile, Ex GSG9 commander Ulrich Wegener accused the SEK of being badly disciplined since the officers were not punished. A Reichsbürgerbewegung supporter was confronted by the police in 2016 in Bavaria with the SEK deployed. One operator was shot dead after they were ordered to seize the man's weapons due to him being mentally unfit to handle them. On June 10, 2021, Interior Minister for the state of Hesse Peter Beuth announced that its SEK unit in Frankfurt will be disbanded since some of its operators were reported to be sharing alt right messages.

The organization of special police forces varies from state to state. Whilst most states have created one SEK which is based in their capital city, others have more than one. North Rhine Westphalia Police or Rheinland Pfalz State Police have established SEKs in other major cities as needed. A SEK unit can be attached to the Bereitschaftspolizei riot police or to big regional police headquarters. However, the common trend is to put the SEK units under control of the Landeskriminalamt (LKA).

SEK members do not always operate in uniform but do wear masks to protect their identities, as well as to protect their bodies from burns. operate hand in hand with the SEKs. These plain clothed units specialize in surveillance, quick arrests and mobile hostage sieges. They are used in investigations against organized crime, blackmailers or other serious offenses. MEKs also provide close protection for a state's senior leaders, including the state's minister president or interior minister. Requirements for duty as a MEK officer are similar but partially less strict than the requirements for the SEK.