S.T.A.R.S.

S.T.A.R.S.

The Special Tactics and Rescue Service (S.T.A.R.S.) is an elite special forces division of the Raccoon City Police Department. It employed ex-military personnel and academic civilians for appropriate positions within the police department.The overall idea was to form a team combining tactically-sound soldiers with scientists, allowing the team to operate in both anti-terrorism and anti-drug operations.

S.T.A.R.S. was comprised of two different teams: Alpha and Bravo, totaling twelve members. Each team was organized based on the tactical squad formation, with five field operatives and a helicopter pilot. The teams would remain on-duty for 24 hour shifts before switching to the other team, allowing S.T.A.R.S. to remain active in the event of an emergency.The operatives were assigned to one of the following positions.

■ Mission Leader (field commander of the team)
■Pointman (field scouting and reconnaissance)
■Backup Man (provides assistance to the Pointman)
■Omni Man (in charge of vehicle and weapon maintenance)
■Rear Security (in charge of establishing contact between the headquarters and the helicopter, as well as treating injured teammates).

A unit of hand-picked specialists working with the Raccoon City Police Department, S.T.A.R.S. was founded in order to combat the increasing rate of terrorism and other violent crimes.The special forces team was formed as part of Mayor Bright 21st Century for Raccoon" campaign funded generously and heavily by the Umbrella Corporation., it was comprised of twelve members split into two teams; an "Alpha" and a "Bravo" team.

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 city.Bravo team was sent 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 and investigate their disappearance.Their probe of the area led to an isolated City where various mutated creatures run amok and the City is very research staff transformed into undead creatures as a result of a viral outbreak.Moreover, the members of Alpha team also found the remains of some of their Bravo team compatriots, while finding others on the brink of death with the exception of , who managed to escape with the Alpha team.

It was revealed that the experiments in the City were conducted by the international Umbrella Corporation and that the S.T.A.R.S. for Umbrella, who had orchestrated the deaths of his subordinates in order to collect test battle data for Umbrella's B.O.W. research