GOE (Brazil)

This article is about the Brazilian police unit. For Portuguese police unit with the same name, see Grupo de Operações Especiais (Portugal).
GRUPO DE OPERAÇÕES ESPECIAIS

GOE
Active 1991 - Present
Country  Brazil
Type Law Enforcement
Role Specialized Law Enforcement
Garrison/HQ São Paulo, Brazil
Nickname(s) GOE
Colors Black
Mascot(s) The Tiger

Grupo de Operações Especiais (Portuguese for Special Operations Group), mostly known by its acronym GOE, is the elite arm of the Civil Police of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It is comparable to Rio de Janeiro's CORE.

History

Founded in 1991, GOE serves to assist conventional police units in high-risk operations involving hostages and uprisings in the prison system. It is subordinate to the Departamento de Polícia Judiciária da Capital ("Judicial Capital Police Department") - DECAP. In 2005 they moved to new headquarters in Campo Belo in the southern zone of São Paulo which contains infrastructure appropriate to their role as a special forces group. They recently distinguished themselves by imprisoning Lebanese Citizen Rana Koleilat, who was a fugitive in Brazil. She was involved in schemes that led to defrauding investors of funds.

Over the years GOE has served as the model for various other tactical units of the same name, throughout São Paulo state and in other states in the federation. Having carried out innumerable successful tactical actions, the São Paulo GOE has established itself as one of the largest and best police special forces units in Brazil.

Structure

The São Paulo GOE has about 200 members, a fleet of 60 vehicles, 5 tactical subdivisions, as well as a specialized Delta unit with its own intelligence service and plain-clothes police and unmarked cars, as well as administrative divisions.

group has an operational base located in the Campo Belo neighborhood, south side, where there is the necessary infrastructure for civilian police can carry out their missions and training.

The base has a fitness and martial training arts center, climbing wall and abseiling use of local training for CQC (close quarters combat), instruction rooms, meeting rooms, accommodation, dressing rooms, workshop for maintenance weaponry and parking.

There, the police conduct fitness and self defense training with an emphasis on martial arts like Aikido and Jiu Jitsu. Also perform combat training with knives and retractable baton, vehicle approach, use of non- lethal weapons and other aiming to improve the training of police members of the group.

However, the training of fire are usually conducted on the campus of Mogi das Cruzes Police Academy.

Exchanges and courses are often conducted in diverse and renowned national institutions like: CORE/PCERJ, Paratrooper Brigade of the Army, Army Technological Center, and even foreign, such as the Grupo Especial de Operaciones(GEO) of Spain, american SWAT teams, etc.

The officers of G.O.E. are enabled in personnel, combat defense in confined environments, patrolling and displacement in areas of high risk, crisis management, expertise in explosives, tactical rappelling, shooting commitment, action and combat CBRN emergencies and other activities of special operations.

Many have worked in other tactical units and some even have served for years the Brazilian Armed Forces.

Role

The G.O.E. is a unit of special features and has the basic assignment assist law enforcement authorities and their agents in judicial police missions.

This assistance usually occurs when these authorities and agents have to develop activities that, by their complexity, beyond their training or does not have adequate resources to carry materials. It is for the GOE, in the district of DECAP, the activities of specialized preventive policing.

Some basic tasks of G.O.E. are:

See also

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