Flashpoint

Flashpoint is a Canadian drama television series created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern that aired from July 11, 2008 to December 13, 2012 on CTV in Canada and on CBS in the United States for the first three seasons and the first half of season 4 before moving to Ion Television starting with the second half of season 4.

The show focuses on a fictional elite tactical unit, the Strategic Response Unit (SRU), within a Canadian metropolitan police force (styled on the Toronto Police Emergency Task Force). The SRU are tasked to resolve extreme situations that regular officers are not trained to handle, including hostage-taking, bomb threats, and heavily armed criminals. Although the team is seldom seen doing so, they do sometimes discuss the "day job" of serving high-risk arrest warrants. Equipped with high-tech tools and a cache of weapons and explosives, members use negotiation tactics and intuition to try to avoid the use of deadly force, which they exert only as a last resort. The initiation of a given situation is often determined by a split-second decision, hence the show's title.

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