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The Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.) was a law-enforcing task force. The unit served as a S.W.A.T. ("Special Weapons And Tactics") team.

A special unit of the RPD, S.T.A.R.S. was founded in 1996 in order to combat the increasing rate of terrorism and other violent crimes. The RPD special forces team was formed as part of Mayor Michael Warrens' A Bright 21st Century for Raccoon" campaign funded by the Umbrella Corporation

Two years after its formation, S.T.A.R.S. was deployed by the police to investigate a series of brutal cannibalistic homicides, which had taken place in the Arklay Mountains on the outskirts of the city. Bravo team was sent in on 23 July 1998 to investigate these incidents.

However, contact with Bravo team was lost and on the following day, Alpha Team was dispatched to follow-up on Bravo team's mission. Their probe of the area led to an isolated mansion, where various mutated creatures (including the mansion's residents) had been transformed into undead creatures as a result of a viral outbreak.

It was revealed that the experiments in the mansion were conducted by the international Umbrella Corporation and that the S.T.A.R.S. team's leader, Albert Wesker, was a double agent working for Umbrella, who had orchestrated the deaths of his subordinates in order to collect test battle data for Umbrella's research.

The team managed to thwart Wesker's plot by killing the T-002 Tyrant prototype. Only Alpha team members Jill Valentine, Chris Redfield, Barry Burton and Brad Vickers (Alpha team's helicopter pilot, who initially left the team stranded in the first place, but later regained his composure and airlifted the survivors), along with Bravo team survivor Rebecca Chambers, managed to escape the mansion alive.

After their return to civilization, S.T.A.R.S. requested a full-scale investigation of Umbrella's activities. However, many found their outlandish story too unbelievable to be possible, and the chief of police (who was on Umbrealla's payroll), disbanded the team permanantly.

Reference: http://residentevil.wikia.com/Special_Tactics_And_Rescue_Service

Description
The requirements for becoming a member of S.T.A.R.S are not clear at all. For example; Barry Burton and Chris Redfield spent some years with the US Air Force, while Jill Valentine trained with Delta Force. However, other members of S.T.A.R.S have little to almost no combat experience. Rebecca Chambers was accepted at age 18 for her outstanding chemistry progress, fresh out of college, but having only the slightest of law-enforcement training before joining S.T.A.R.S. Each member of the unit wears an undershirt with the S.T.A.R.S. emblem over the left sleeve and a Kevlar tactical vest suited for each operative's personal skills and speciality. For example, Chris' vest was equipped a with sheath for his combat knife, while Rebecca's vest prominently displayed a red cross on the back, the international symbol of a medical assistance officer. Each member is allowed to choose their color for his/her uniform. A much more official and practical prototype S.T.A.R.S. uniform was also designed consisting of olive drab fatigues and a black tactical vest with the S.T.A.R.S. logo emblazoned across the back, but this outfit was never formally adopted due to the (Raccoon City) teams' demise. Instead, Chris wore the only known prototype on his mission to rescue his sister Claire, during the Rockfort Island incident.

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