Special Task Force of the National Police of Colombia
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| State level | Government of Colombia | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Ministerio del Interior | ||
| Consist | 1984 | ||
| Headquarters | Bogotá | ||
| Authority management | Ricardo Augusto Alarcón Campos. | ||
| Employee | 220 | ||
| Website | www.policia.gov.co | ||
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The Special Task Force of the National Police of Colombia ( Spanish Comandos en Operaciones Especiales y Antiterrorismo , COPES ) is an elite Colombian force of the Colombian National Police based in Bogotá . The COPES is an institution with the greatest possible ability to cope with situations in national crises that could destabilize the state of Colombia.
COPES is part of the Directorate for Citizens' Protection ( Dirección de Seguridad Ciudadana , DISEC). It has the task of carrying out high-risk police operations at urban and rural level throughout the national territory with highly qualified employees in special operations in order to combat individuals, groups or organizations, independently of the police. The COPES is deployed in units of at least four men in urban missions. In rural missions this number increases to at least ten men. The troop is u. a. Equipped with M60 machine guns and Sig Sauer SSG3000 as standard. The training ground is located on a hacienda approx. 20 km from the southwestern city limits near Sibaté in the Cundinamarca department .
background
In the early 1980s, the Colombian government came to the conclusion that the successful implementation of a national security policy would have to lead to a new security scenario, forcing criminal organizations to change their behavior in order to ensure their survival. While there has been advances in citizen security over the years, the threats have not disappeared and have therefore shifted according to their criminal logic.
So it was urgently necessary to found a special unit in the form of an elite force. This happened in 1984. The aim was also to guarantee training standards at the highest possible level. Only in this way could it be ensured in the long term that with training, competence, professionalism, resources and skills, a leading role in the smashing of criminal structures is realized so that the peace of the inhabitants of the country and the stability and order of the seriously endangered institutions are not questioned become.
Functions
- Support of police units that mean high risk tasks.
- Instruction of special operation classes from various police units, military units or other international or national organizations that require this.
- Serving as an advisory organization to the operational directorate of the Colombian National Police on insurgency and organized crime. She also advises the Armaments and Equipment Administrative Directorate of the Colombian National Police.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Medios técnicos policia.gov.co, accessed on April 2, 2018 (Spanish)
- ↑ Así es un entrenamiento del Comando de Operaciones Especiales y Antiterrorismo (Cope) eltiempo.com, of 28 August 2010 (Spanish)
Web links
- Website on Policia Nacional de Colombia (Spanish)
- Manual de Operaciones (Spanish)