The Gurkha Contingent is a special police unit inside the force.
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Belgian Special Police at the scene of the shooting in Liège.
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In exchange, they receive "special police attention," according to the initiative's website.
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Salah Abdeslam captured by special police unit in the Molenbeek area of Brussels.
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Special police were seen leaving the house, located on Stephenson street, carrying items.
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The helicopter was reportedly piloted by a dissident member of the special police force.
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The area around the courthouse was cordoned off by special police units wearing masks.
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The plane was removed from the runway so a special police squad could search it.
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The special police forces who stormed the cinema responded with live rounds, killing the attacker.
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When that happens, it's up to a special police unit called SEVEN-O to stop them.
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Around 100 special police were posted outside the courthouse, armed with tear gas and automatic rifles.
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Albania deployed hundreds of special police officers this week to its frontiers with Greece and Macedonia.
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Special police units eventually ultimately overpowered the attackers, a statement from the deputy interior minister said.
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Civilian opponents have been executed by special police units, human rights workers and the UN say.
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The guard was commissioned as a District of Columbia special police officer, according to the department.
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Members of the French special police Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) patrol at the French–German border.
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Officials from a special police task force and the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries stood ready.
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The special police precinct for tourists and foreigners started investigating because the swimmers' stories were quite contradictory.
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A special police unit was sent to seize his collection, said to contain at least 30 guns.
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We had a special police officer come from the army when they saw this in the catalog.
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Special police units converged on the scene while authorities blocked roads and urged residents to stay away.
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After the explosion, a special police unit sealed off the area around the parliament, a Reuters witness reported.
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" Supporters' groups are "often better organized, financially stronger and more numerous even then the special police units (gendarmerie).
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According to prosecutors, Martin in July traveled to Connecticut to purchase a "Detective Special" police-package Chevrolet Caprice.
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Turkey has deployed 1,000 special police to the area to halt the pushback of migrants onto its territory.
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Many spoke grimly of a "Burma Cell," a special police division responsible for cracking down on Rohingya migrants.
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Ms. Kelly recently received a Special Police Officer license that allows her to work as a security guard.
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Local media said the police had paid some 100,000 euros ($116,450) for each car due to special police requirements.
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A special police unit stepped in to prevent violence between the opposition protesters and around 100 of Vucic's supporters.
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He had gone on Tuesday with a special police force to the central bank where they spent several hours.
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Dick Anthony Heller, from whom the case gets its name, was a special police officer in DC at the time.
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There are certain locations that will get special police attention ... the Federal Building in Westwood, Hollywood and Highland and freeways.
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Police confiscated three rifles and two pistols from the men and handed the prisoners over to the Special Police Operations Center.
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The man asking was a special police officer (SPO) who directed me through a metal detector I proceeded to set off.
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The special police force also learned that the children of some German families living in the country were undergoing paramilitary training.
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More broadly, state B.J.P. officials have shut down dozens of slaughterhouses; others have set up special police squads to protect cattle.
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In recent years all of Ethiopia's regional governments have built up special police forces which they are loth to give up.
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Julio Reyes, an opposition activist, said he was targeted on Sunday in the Tacagua Vieja neighborhood by the special police unit.
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Goran Radosavljevic, known as Guri, who was the commander of the special police base where the bodies of the brothers were discovered.
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At one point, authorities deployed special police forces known by the Brazilian acronym BOPE as well as a large armored personnel carrier.
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Ram had also found allies in a couple of local police officers — Head Constable Tilak Raj and Special Police Officer Deepak Khajuria.
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As the Amhara region's security chief, General Asamnew strengthened its paramilitary forces, creating a special police unit that answered directly to him.
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Following the deployment of troops, special police units were sent to Alemão as part of a "pacification" program designed to restore order.
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The opposition leader said Thursday that members of a special police force showed up at his house asking for his wife. Sen.
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Juan Guaido, Venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president, said on Thursday that agents from a feared special police unit had visited his home.
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Units of special police forces patrolled the main streets, where groups of public-sector workers loitered in vain hope of resuming work.
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And to make matters even more absurd, a special police force went undercover that day by blacking-up—reportedly for security measures.
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His Serbian counterpart Tomislav Nikolic has said Pristina showed it wanted war by deploying special police at the border to block the train.
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After the attack, Ecuador's President Lenín Moreno tightened rules for Venezuelans in the country and deployed special police units to patrol the streets.
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When assaulting the building, soldiers opened fire on a special police unit advancing from another part of the mall and killed its commander.
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Many were found only years later in a mass grave on a training ground for Serbia's special police at Batajnica, just outside Belgrade.
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Victims are encouraged to go to special police stations for women — but there are very few of these, and they have limited hours.
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It also sets up specific courts and judges dedicated to violence against women as well as special police units, mostly led by women.
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SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian special police forces arrested 43 people on Friday in coordinated raids across the country on a suspected terrorism financing ring.
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Cancino, an officer with Venezuela's feared special police in Caracas, had crossed into Colombia in February after heeding the opposition's calls for defection.
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The police said that Mr. Melhem spotted special police forces approaching the building in which he was hiding, and that he tried to escape.
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Special police forces, carrying helmets and shields, confronted the veterans of the 1990s Bosnian war who blocked the city center during a protest walk.
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Paramilitaries or ethnic militias known as special police, initially established as counterinsurgency units, are increasingly involved in ethnic conflicts, mainly between neighboring ethnic states.
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The crane brought in Sunday was on a job site in Baton Rouge, and it received a special police escort to New Orleans, McConnell said.
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The second suspect at large, Nóbrega, is a former captain of BOPE (the Special Police Operations Battalion), an elite unit within Rio's Military Police force.
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Special police units barged into stations and deployed tear gas, beat up demonstrators and violently dragged people from subway cars to take them into custody.
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Kosovo special police units on Saturday prevented a train painted in Serbia's national colors and bearing the words "Kosovo is Serbia" from crossing the border.
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Mr. Khalimov, then a deputy commander of the special police unit, took part in that operation but still continued his American military training until 2013.
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The crackdown has been made more lethal by Mr. Maduro's deployment of a special police unit against activists, whose ranks may have included civilian vigilantes.
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The governor of Maranhao, Flavio Dino, said he would create a special police force to protect indigenous people in his state, where the killing took place.
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The buses turned to head back to the Sarajevo canton, dominated by Muslim Bosniaks, whose special police forces arrived at the scene to secure the migrants.
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The new killing spree revives a special police task force that had been shelved for reasons that, to explain fully here, would amount to a spoiler.
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The two officers, also known as special police officers, had been missing since Thursday morning when they did not report to work after the Eid holiday.
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And his reliance on a special police unit — relatively new and shrouded in secrecy — may be a sign of disarray and waning loyalty in the military.
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While still designated as a special police officer with arrest powers, prosecutors said, Khan was under explicit orders not to touch any customers, including suspected shoplifters.
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Before his disappearance, Zoha spent several hours with members of a special police force at the central bank trying to identify the culprits behind the theft.
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Andrew M. Cuomo had set up a special police unit to address the issue statewide, in response to an increase in hate crimes after the election.
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Dr. Matthieu Langlois, 46 The chief doctor for the special police unit, known by its French initials, RAID, that responds to terrorist attacks and hostage situations.
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There was even a special police unit whose business was to make sure the brothel-keepers kept their establishments clean and stocked with condoms and rubbing alcohol.
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The governments of Peru and Colombia say clamping down on illegal mining is a top priority, and both have created special police units to tackle the problem.
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Uniformed members of the special police unit were also photographed in Mr. Vásquez's funeral procession along with members of his paramilitary group, known as the Three Roots.
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"We thought we could trust our president Juan Guiado to lead this fight for freedom," said Williams Cancino, a defector from the Venezuelan special police in Caracas.
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Italy, which is hosting G7 meetings this year, set up a special police force in 1969 to track down stolen artifacts and artworks, which are often smuggled abroad.
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Bernd Hochstädter, a spokesman for the police command in Southern Hessen, told the N-TV private news channel that a special police team had carried out the action.
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Japan plans to set up a special police unit to help defend the Senkaku Islands, a group of outcroppings that China also claims, calling them the Diaoyu Islands.
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Two years ago, he said, the number of special police forces deployed to the area rose significantly, reaching its peak with the arrival of the Jungle Commando force.
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One of two women assigned to a division of 150 special police officers, she charges that she was quickly ostracized and made the target of repeated sexual jokes.
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The charges against Pell come after a special police task-force was created in 2013 to investigate complaints of abuse by Catholic clergy and other religious orders and institutions.
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A special police team arrested an army officer and two soldiers over the abduction and illegal detention of journalist Keith Noyahr, police spokesman Priyantha Jayakody said in a statement.
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Ahmad Aziz, the commander of an Afghan Special Police Unit, said that Islamic State attacks in Kabul, the capital, are becoming more advanced and that the group is growing.
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The charges against Pell came after a special police task-force was created in 2013 to investigate complaints of abuse by Catholic clergy and other religious orders and institutions.
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Ahmad Aziz, the commander of an Afghan Special Police Unit, said that Islamic State attacks in Kabul, the capital, are becoming more advanced and that the group is growing.
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Top image by Răzvan BăltărețuOn Wednesday night, a fight between soccer hooligans and special police forces interrupted a protest of about 150,000 people in the Romanian capital of Bucharest.
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The incident has prompted Pakistan to boost security around Chinese nationals and other foreigners, and accelerated plans for thousands-strong special police protection units to focus on safeguarding Chinese citizens.
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A U.S. tip helped thwart a terror attack in Germany, helping German special police forces arrested a Syrian man Tuesday who was planning an extremist attack, The Associated Press reported.
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It's a scenario reminiscent of the sci-fi movie Minority Report, in which a special police unit called the PreCrime Division identifies and arrests murderers before they commit their crimes.
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Go deeper: Mr. Maduro has called on a special police force to crack down on protesters, a potential sign of the strained loyalties inside the military he once relied on.
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Human rights groups say little is known about Mr. Maduro's special police force, including the names of its top commanders and who exactly has been invited to form its ranks.
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The latest crackdown against Venezuelan protesters has left at least 40 dead, many killed during nightly raids conducted by a balaclava-clad special police unit created by President Nicolás Maduro.
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U.S. forces conducted an air strike supporting an Afghan special police unit fighting the attackers but suffered a "missile malfunction", causing several casualties, the U.S.-led NATO mission there said.
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In 1941, after Nazi groups were discovered in the country, the Chilean government set up a special police unit called Department 50 to track these spy rings and thwart their activities.
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Police said the gang had been engaged in narcotics and human trafficking, and the three-hour raid was conducted by a special police unit known as the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
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King would clearly say that creating special police patrols in minority neighborhoods, based solely on the religion of most of those living there, violates freedom of religion and our every moral impulse.
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Turkey's interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, visited Edirne province bordering Greece on Thursday and announced the deployment of 23.6,000 special police to the area to halt the pushback of migrants toward its territory.
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Sharhabil al-Obaidi, the mayor of al-Baghdadi in Anbar province, said a bodyguard, a civilian and six police officers were killed after Iraqi military and special police forces raided a house.
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At least 40 people have been killed in the latest round of protests against Mr. Maduro, largely in nightly raids in poor neighborhoods involving the special police unit, human rights groups say.
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In an interview with The New York Times shortly before his death, Mr. Pérez asserted that a pro-Maduro paramilitary group had penetrated the special police unit and exerted influence over it.
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Fights finished in heartbeats—onto the next, via another surreal cutscene where a special police officer from the Resident Evil series is trying to break a supervillain superbeing out of a supernatural prison.
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The dead included a soldier and two village guards who belong to a state-backed militia that fights Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels along with soldiers and special police units, security sources said.
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The initiative follows a memorandum of understanding between the Chinese and Serbian interior ministers signed in May that also allows for joint exercises of special police units and cooperation in fighting cyber crime.
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A soldier was killed in a gun attack in Sur on Monday, the General Staff said, hours after a member of a special police unit in Sur was shot dead, according to security sources.
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But I did hope that the game would engage at all with its core premise, the idea of capturing and enslaving these extradimensional, largely humanoid beings towards the ends of a special police force.
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CLEVELAND – An Ohio man accused of hiding his membership in a Serbian special police unit that massacred more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslims during the 1995 genocide will leave the U.S. as part of his sentencing.
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BANJA LUKA, Bosnia (Reuters) - Special police forces dispersed protesters demanding the resignation of Bosnian Serb Interior Minister Dragan Lukac on Sunday over a student's death, detaining several people in the northwestern town of Banja Luka.
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BERLIN — A German special police unit has detained a Syrian asylum-seeker who they said they suspected of plotting a terrorist attack during the opening of the national soccer league season, German officials said Tuesday.
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Appearing on Germany's main TV breakfast show on Tuesday, Mr. Maassen brushed aside criticism that the 700-member special police unit deployed in the Chemnitz operation had bungled it and failed to capture Mr. Bakr.
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Among this week's subjects: a special police force in the Netherlands that helps animals in trouble, a popular course about happiness at Yale, and the girls aiming to become Jamaica's first Olympic synchronized swimmers, above.
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I have celebrated the holiday at a Chinese restaurant with Turkish artists and writers, over kebabs with Afghan warlords, and by splitting up the best parts of a box of MREs with Iraqi special police.
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One of the most iconic posters on display depicts a member of the French riot police (the Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité, or C.R.S.) as a baton-wielding member of the SS, the Nazi special police.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German special police commandos have arrested four men aged 18 to 20 suspected of stealing a gold coin worth about $5403 million from Berlin's Bode Museum, but they failed to find the coin.
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Brazil prison head removed amid corruption allegations Military police, the Department of Special Operations, National Prison Department officers and the Special Police Operations Center, an elite unit of Piraquara State's Civil Police, responded to the escape.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France's tourism sector on Tuesday urged French authorities to set up a special police force in Paris to fight crime targeting tourists as safety fears curb the number of visitors to the French capital.
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Special police units found no weapons in his possession when he was arrested, the prosecutors said, German investigators were still looking into the activities of the two other Bosnian nationals with links to the arrested suspect.
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President Rodrigo Duterte ordered Kadamay and other groups to leave the low-cost housing area in Rodriguez town east of Manila by Friday noon or he will send in special police forces to drive them away.
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The special police who failed to arrest Mr. Bakr last week came in for criticism after he eluded capture despite heavy surveillance and a raid on his apartment in Chemnitz, about 50 miles south of Leipzig.
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Special police team to break up gatherings Before Edwards' order, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell, on Friday, issued a stay at home order for her city, closing businesses and banning gathers of more than 10 people.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan special police detained a fugitive Colombian former senator who had illegally crossed the border, the force's chief said, four months after she escaped custody by climbing out of her dentist's office in Bogota.
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This alarming development was confirmed by Bosnia's security minister, and comes on the heels of a reported agreement between Russia and the RS ministry of the interior to have Russians train the RS special police force.
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KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria has deployed a special police force to restore calm in the northern state of Kaduna following communal violence that killed 55 people in the last few days, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Sunday.
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Tens of thousands of troops and special police units have been sent to the province for polling day but there were many complaints of vote-rigging and influence peddling by some of the candidates and their supporters.
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German special police units raided several homes in Berlin early Wednesday in connection with the brazen heist of a 100-kilogram (221-pound) gold coin stolen from one of the city's most famous museums earlier this year.
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The involvement of the special police unit is especially worrisome, human rights advocates say, because the unit was created to put down armed gangs or rescue hostages, not to control crowds of protesters in a peaceful manner.
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"We are setting up a special police unit for this sort of security task but that will take some time for it to be operational," the spokesman said, adding that the army would take over in the meantime.
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Backed by the central government, Abdi and his heavily armed special police force, the Liyu, murdered and raped civilians, imprisoned and tortured tens of thousands of alleged rebels, and, according to Human Rights Watch, committed crimes against humanity.
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In his testimony, Kyaw Soe Oo said they were arrested immediately after leaving the restaurant and taken to a nearby police station, before being driven to a special police interrogation site in northern Yangon called Aung Tha Pyay.
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Eight to nine gunmen attacked the Holey Artisan restaurant in the upscale Gulshan area of Dhaka, and police were preparing to start an operation to rescue the hostages, said Benjir Ahmed, the chief of Bangladesh's special police force.
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Didi said that SOS feature is tied into "a streamlined critical response process" — which includes "a special police response team" set up to assist with issues on the Didi service — and there are fatigue and tiredness alerts for drivers.
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Guaido said on Thursday that agents from a feared special police unit had called at his home and asked for his wife, who was at home with their 20-month-old daughter while he was out at an event.
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In response to the incidents, Macedonian police sent reinforcements to the border on Monday afternoon, with about a hundred special police in riot gear, accompanied by police forces of other countries flown in by helicopter to help in enforcing border controls.
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They appeared to be wearing the uniforms of a special police unit that was reportedly "particularly involved" in the detention of LGBTQ people, according to a report by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) published in December.
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In addition to the potential for bombs, the police and special police forces have prepared for the possibility, however unlikely, they say, of an airborne attack from a civilian drone, which could theoretically drop an explosive or release a chemical substance.
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EDIRNE, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey is deploying 1,000 special police forces along its border with Greece on Thursday to halt the pushback of migrants toward its territory, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said, adding that 164 migrants had been wounded by Greek authorities.
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LAGOS (Reuters) - A special police force has been deployed to flashpoints in the northern state of Kaduna on Sunday in the wake of communal violence over the last few days that has killed 55 people, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Twitter.
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The 17-year-old, whose name has not been released, attacked passengers with an ax and knife on a train near Wuerzburg-Heidingsfeld on Monday night, before he was shot and killed by a special police unit which happened to be nearby.
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After an internal selection process, a small number of new recruits are invited to join special police forces, including the rapid intervention units, roughly equivalent to SWAT teams in the US, that played a major role in the Paris attacks and their aftermath.
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Special police forces in full combat gear pushed back the protesters lining up at the main north-to-south road, angry after the police used force to disperse another group in the northern town of Tuzla in the early hours of Saturday.
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The Syrian, who came to Germany as a refugee in February 2015 and was granted asylum five months later, escaped capture when a heavily armed special police unit raided his apartment in Chemnitz, about an hour's drive south of Leipzig, late Friday night.
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Tanveer Hassan Zoha disappeared last Thursday, two days after he accompanied special police to the offices of the Bangladesh Bank and told reporters that he knew three of the user IDs that hackers deployed to carry out the largest cyber heist in history.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's self-proclaimed president, Juan Guaido, said on Thursday that agents from a feared special police unit were at his home asking for his wife, in a sign of increasing pressure on the opposition leader trying to topple the government.
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The arrests came just weeks after another Syrian asylum-seeker, said to be 19 years old and to have traveled to Germany in 2015, was arrested by special police units while in the process of building a homemade bomb for use on a German target.
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"Due to an Albanian attack against the north of Kosovo and the arrest of some Serbs who have not committed any crime, I ordered the police director to put all special police units in state of the highest readiness," Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said.
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Special police forces and trucks loaded with drinking water were sent to the worst affected areas, where there also have been some electricity outages and where scattered debris of furniture swept away from houses could be seen on the streets, a Reuters reporter said.
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As the special police forces surrounded the murdered officer's house, where Mr. Abballa was holed up, cordoning off the modest neighborhood that is home to both non-Muslims and Muslims, Mr. Abballa asked his "brothers" to pray to Allah that he might become a martyr.
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After weeks in hiding in South Africa, allegedly helped by a recently appointed spokesman who snuck her away in a government-issue car, Thabane crossed back into Lesotho last Tuesday, passing a phalanx of security forces, and promptly handed herself over to special police.
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While the attackers, using a captured Humvee and military uniforms, managed to penetrate the security corridor, Nicholson noted that during the firefight Afghan special police commandos from the country's Crisis Response Unit 222 managed to kill seven of the eight attackers and capture the remaining one.
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The special police who failed to capture Mr. Bakr in Chemnitz have also been scrutinized in a case that is sure to spark calls for better coordination among the various authorities responsible for police and justice work in Germany's 16 states and at the national level.
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Set in a cyberpunk city called the Ark, the last remaining human settlement in a post-apocalyptic world, the game casts you as a recent recruit to Neuron, a special police task force which investigates and combats "chimeras," extradimensional, biomechanical creatures which periodically terrorize the city.
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A decline in shootings is especially pronounced, officials say, in two of the city's most violence-prone districts, where special police centers were recently created as a way to use more predictive analytics, gunfire data and surveillance footage in real time to decide where to deploy officers.
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But there is no doubt that as he rose in the ranks of a special police force in Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic, Mr. Khalimov received extensive taxpayer-funded military training from the United States to help counter drug-running and extremism along the border with Afghanistan.
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A woman was killed by a landslide in the San Jose de Maipo valley, a mountainous region just southeast of capital city Santiago, while a special police force is searching for another four people in the same area, said Ricardo Toro, the head of Chile's Onemi emergency office.
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Thinking the plainclothes cops had been taken prisoner by the burglars they were stinging, at least one special police force officer opened fire on the local cops, initiating a gunfight that left one special officer dead on one side and two local officers and the two plainclothes cops dead on the other.
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The federal government has deployed hundreds of marines and federal police officers to the municipality to confront the violence, and the national tourism secretary, Enrique de la Madrid, has announced a plan to create a special police force to help patrol tourism destinations, including Los Cabos, though the plan remains on the drawing board.
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