Taking aim at the elite career of SWAT sniper

Law enforcement experts took no chances when a knife-wielding man took a 5-year-old hostage in the capital last week, shooting him dead and freeing his victim.

The incident came in the wake of a string of deadly knife assaults on school children across the country that has seen four knife attacks in four provinces in a month leave eight children dead and at 52 injured.

With public safety in the spotlight, an official with the Beijing Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team shares some of the elite squad's secrets with METRO.