S.W.A.T.

Duties and Responsibilities: Team has a select group of highly trained officers who are called Snipers. A deployed Sniper Team is the eyes of the S.W.A.T. ... The primary responsibilities of a Sniper Team are to protect the public and other S.W.A.T. Team members, and to gather details and information from its vantage point.

Salary: Salary. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual wage of police officers (including SWAT officers) was $56,130 as of May 2013, with 80 percent earning between $32,670 and $90,700.

Education: Some community colleges offer tactical law enforcement classes and programs. These programs cover areas such as self-defense, firearms training, tactical operations, search and seizure and tactical report writing. A few colleges also offer police academy training programs, while some private industry associations offer SWAT training programs.

Demand for this particular career: There's a lot of mystery and mystique surrounding SWAT teams around the world.  These highly trained, elite law enforcement specialty units have at their disposal a host of tools and tactics to make them ready for the most dangerous and volatile of situations that may require police action. You might even call them the Navy SEALS of policing, which is why any police officer who is honest with themselves will likely admit that they've had dreams of making the team at some point in  their career.