Tropa de Inteligencia y Grupos de Respuesta Especial de Seguridad

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TIGRES aspirants training on a school bus at Eglin AFB in Florida

Tropa de Inteligencia y Grupos de Respuesta Especial de Seguridad or TIGRES for short is a special unit that reports to the Secretaría de Seguridad de Honduras and is headed by Germán Palma.

The intention to set up the unit was first presented on July 26, 2012 at the National Congress, and in May 2013 it was decided to establish it. It was determined that the unit would have 400 members and would be a mixture of police and military . Even intelligence tasks should be able to take on this unit. The background to setting up this new unit was the persistently high crime rate in the country.

The first class was trained by the 7th Special Forces Group , the United States Army Special Forces Command (Airborne), and Comandos Jungla . The training lasted from March 19 to June 19, 2014 with the graduation of the first aspirants. The training included military tactics for smaller units, airmobile operations, close quarter combat , water survival training, off-road navigation, weapon use, communications, explosives, medical services, operations planning, leadership and human rights .

Criticism and controversy

As early as the decision in Congress, human rights organizations criticized the fact that the establishment of this unit was a step backwards in the 1980s, when death squads raged in the country. It was also criticized that the corrupt police should be reformed rather than new units formed. Another reason that was also mentioned is that the COBRAS , a special unit of the Policía Nacional de Honduras , actually already exists.

In February 2015, it was revealed that while Miguel Arnulfo Valle and Luis Alonso Valle were arrested by the Valle Organization , $ 1.3 million had been stolen. It was then investigated against 50 officers and 21 were suspended.

Web links

Commons : TIGRES  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Se gradúa primer grupo de TIGRES in Honduras. Los nuevos elementos son 171 hombres y 10 mujeres, quienes fueron especialmente entrenados para combatir el crimen organizado y común del país. In: El Heraldo. June 19, 2014, accessed June 14, 2015 (Spanish).
  2. ^ Marguerite Cawley: Plans For New Military Police in Honduras Backed by Congress. In: Insight Crime. May 9, 2013, accessed June 14, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b Michael Lohmuller: Police Theft of $ 1.3 Mn is Mark of Honduras Corruption. In: Insight Crime. Retrieved June 14, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b HONDURAS: Bonilla pushes to unleash his 'Tigers'. The 26 July 2012 draft legislation for a new elite military-police unit called 'Tigres' (Tropa de Inteligencia y Grupos de Respuesta Especial de Seguridad - Intelligence Troop and Special Security Response Troop) is to be taken up for a second time by congress, prompting fresh concern about the militarization of internal security in Honduras. Retrieved June 14, 2015 .
  5. ↑ a b c Johannes Schwäbl: Honduras founds new special police. In: amerika21. May 18, 2013, accessed June 14, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Embassy of the United States Tegucigalpa, Honduras. (No longer available online.) June 19, 2014, archived from the original on May 13, 2015 ; accessed on June 14, 2015 .