The purpose of this study was investigate the current physical and performance characteristics of tactical officers on full-time, part-time and multi-jurisdictional teams and to identify the underlying physical fitness components required to perform the essential job-tasks of SWAT. A descriptive statistical analysis, One-way ANOVA with Tukeys' post-hocs and independent sample t-tests were used to compare differences in mean anthropometric and performance scores among three groups of tactical officers. In addition, a discriminate analysis with stepwise linear regressions was used to predict group membership. One sample t-tests were utilized to determine differences between the mean scores of the tactical officers and traditional law enforcement officers, as well as the Cooper Single Standard -Fitness Norms. The full-time tactical officers had significantly less fat mass and scored significantly better on measures of muscular endurance and anaerobic power than both the part-time and multi-jurisdictional tacticaSchool of Teaching and Curriculum Leadershi
