Squad noun ▶ the Squad the Flying Squad (a unit of the Metropolitan Police, known as the Flying Squad since 1921) UK
— Angela Devlin, PrisonPatter, p. 109, 1996
Perhaps the most spectacular, and dangerous, part of the Squad’s work is the “pavement ambush”. — Martin Fido and Keith Skinner, The OfficialEncyclopaediaofScotlandYard, p. 94, 1999