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Title: "SERT 1930's"
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930, ca
Contributing Institution: Center for Sacramento History
Collection: Center for Sacramento History Photo Collection
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Description: Officers pose with guns and squad cars ready for any situation. This group was specially trained in the handling of firearms and using self-defense. As the Shotgun Squad, they were trained to use sawed off shotguns, see photo. They were much like the Crime Suppresion Units (CSU) begun in 1971, and the Special Emergency Reaction Teams (SERT) begun in 1975.
Type: image
Identifier: B7C927D0-C36E-44E0-BC7F-529488396013
2001/007/114
Subject: Guns
Automobiles
Police

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