Comando de Operações Táticas

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COT police officers during training

The Comando de Operações Táticas, or COT for short, is a special unit of the Brazilian Polícia Federal (Federal Police). The unit completes around 110 missions per year. Well-known missions were Operação Topeira , where a blow against the mafia organization PCC was successful. Aspirants are subjected to tough training and after one or two years a so-called baptism of fire follows, where the aspirants become full members of the unit. For a long time, trainings for favelas were held at the BOPE in Rio de Janeirocarried out. However, a separate facility was built for the COT, which simulates a favela.

In 1983 the Comissão Parlamentar Mista de Inquérito (Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry) recommended that the Ministry of Justice set up a special unit. The unit was founded in 1988 with a small group of police agents.

Web links

Commons : Comando de Operações Táticas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tropa de elite da PF atua há 23 anos sem baixas. December 20, 2009, Retrieved October 23, 2018 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ Mônica Lacerda: COMANDO DE OPERAÇÕES TÁTICAS - DA CONCEPÇÃO AO NASCIMENTO. November 26, 2007. Retrieved October 24, 2018 (Portuguese).