Zelaya also created a specialized anti-gang unit within the police force which he used to coordinate patrols with the Honduran military.

In March 2000, CRASH was gradually diminished and replaced with a similar anti-gang unit.

He is portrayed as a Los Angeles Police Department officer and a new member of the Strike Team, a four-man anti-gang unit.

In an e-mail message, Chief Collins said that gang activity in the neighborhood had decreased because the department had placed additional anti-gang units there.

Because of the upgrade the division received its own anti-gang unit.

One of his top priorities is to get Detective Vic Mackey, leader of the experimental anti-gang unit called the Strike Team, off the streets.

Last summer, he became head of the department's vice and narcotics unit, a job that requires him to supervise the city's anti-gang unit.

The Board of Education created an anti-gang unit almost two years ago and says it will accept most of Mr. Stancik's suggestions.

Recruited into an undercover, anti-gang unit of the LAPD, Sancho brings his street smarts onto the force that he has sworn to protect.

The anti-gang unit, which is reputed to be one of the Army's most brutal companies, is under the control of Colonel Francois.