NPC - PTU Officer

Profile
Name: Police Tactical Unit Officer/SWAT Team Member

Type: Human

Gender: Variable

Age: Late 20s to Early 30s

Weight: Variable

Height: Variable

Build: Medium

Eye Color: Variable

Hair Color / Style: Dependent on department standards, buzz cuts are normal.

Quirks: Rarely seen with donuts.

Distinguishing Marks: Usually none, tattoos rare.

History
A Police Tactical Unit (PTU), also known as SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics), is a law enforcement unit that utilizes specialized or military-grade equipment and tactics. The military police equivalent are called Special Reaction Teams (SRT). These personnel are highly trained and typically well funded by their departments, and usually well disciplined. PTUs are deployed to handle highly dangerous scenarios and other crises that require more and better protected firepower than what normal policemen can bring to bear.

The average PTU officer is an experienced member of the police force, still young and in their athletic prime. Many members are ex-military or reservists as well.

NPC Behavior
The average PTU Officer is a veteran combatant and part of a much larger team, and they should behave as such. As civilian police, they are less likely to use liberal amounts of automatic cover fire, and might switch up the order of shooting and asking. The situations they are deployed in require great force, and usually call for dynamic entry. They storm the building from multiple entrances, including breaching walls or rappelling down from the roof through windows, throwing flashbangs, and rushing into close range to subdue the stunned hostile. In most scenarios, this is more than enough to overwhelm their opponents. In firefights, they take cover where available, and use suppressing fire to fix the enemy in place while the rest of their team executes flanking maneuvers. When confronted with superior numbers or firepower, they call for backup, stalling or withdrawing as their commander sees necessary.

This NPC template lists several equipped weapons, but users should not assume that an individual PTU Officer is carrying all of them at once. Their equipment should make sense for their deployment: a situation with many hostages would dissuade the police from taking buckshot and explosives, for example. Generally, PTU Officers will be wielding their Combat Submachineguns or Assault Rifles. The former are much preferred for their line of work, but it's not uncommon for police departments to save money by buying outdated surplus rifles and skimping on ammo.

Gifts
None

Advantages
Unarmed Combat - Reversal, Takedown, Bare Blocking

Weapon Training - Clubs, Handguns, Thrown

Weapon Training - Rifles, Shotguns, Submachine Guns

Improved Toughness

Improved Attribute - SEN

Improved Attribute - PHY

Improved Attribute - AGI

Disadvantages
None

Mutations & Cybernetics
None