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On this wiki page, there's mention of PDF Kill Squads. I was just wondering if there's any source for the existence of such a concept, as the wiki page doesn't cite one.

No evidence but one could assume there are elite formations in most PDF...

 purplefood wrote:
No evidence but one could assume there are elite formations in most PDF...

Why, isnt their job is to just die?

That info tinbit was (I believe) taken form the Dark Heresy RPG Corebook (The image is the same as the one in than book, the flavour text is also quite similar, if not copy/pasted).

They are a branch of the enforcers which are just the local law, so they are more like SWAT or death squads than storm trooper proper.

PDF Kill squads are squads of PDF who are meant to get killed

Ok OP here's where you went wrong.
You...
A) Opened up the 40kwiki.
B) Read what was written there.
and optionally C) Believed what was written there.

You're better of using the Lexicanum for anything fluff related. They at least cite their sources. Don't just allow fan fiction to run rampent.

Snrub wrote:They at least cite their sources.

Though they don't always say what the article suggests.

Snrub wrote:Don't just allow fan fiction to run rampent.

Technically, any fan-fiction is just as valid as anything official - that's what Gav Thorpe himself said, anyways. What really does run rampant in the community is the erroneous belief that there is such a thing as a uniform "canon" truth, ignoring the blatant contradictions between the various sources. Which is something Lexicanum is at fault for propagating.
I still like it for an index of sorts, though. My personal recommendation is looking up the sources on Lexicanum, and then reading those. The fan-edited wiki articles tend to try and merge them all into one piece of knowledge, even when the sources were never intended to tie into each other. Thus, the articles become a sort of fan-fiction themselves. On some pages, they've begun to have a special "canon conflicts" section for it, but on others it's all just mashed into one thing reflecting the editor's personal interpretation.


OnTopic: Planetary Defense Forces, at least in GW's own material, can be just about anything the Imperial Guard itself has, or perhaps even more (given that they may utilise local vehicle and weapon variants, and have their own air support, unlike the IG which has to rely on the Imperial Navy for that). What a PDF actually has, however, will depend heavily on the individual world. On one planet, the PDF's "Kill Squad" will be some feral chieftain's Viking-like personal enforcers armed with chainmail and broadswords, whereas on the next you've got carapace-armoured troopers wielding heavy stubbers and shock batons. And then you've got anything in-between!

 Harriticus wrote:
PDF Kill squads are squads of PDF who are meant to get killed

Isn't that all of them?