 In December 1978, the Emergency Squad was established following the introduction of the Federal Government National Anti-Terrorism Plan which required each state and territory police to establish and maintain a police tactical group.The Emergency Squad was subsequently renamed as the Task Force, which was later renamed as the Territory Response Section (TRS) and was then finally renamed as the Territory Response Group (TRG).In 1998, the TRG arrested fugitive bank robber Brenden Abbott and in 2012 arrested Jonathon Andrew Stenberg.