- Source: Police Special Operation Department
The Police Special Operations Department (Turkish: Polis Özel Harekât Dairesi) or Police Special Action (Turkish: Polis Özel Harekât), abbreviated as PÖH, is the police tactical unit of the General Directorate of Security in Turkey. The force consists of 22,000 personnel, more than a thousand of whom are women. It is also deployed as part of the Turkish occupation of northern Syria.
History
The PÖH was founded in 1983 as "Special Operations Office" (Turkish: Özel Harekat Şube Müdürlüğü), under the command of Department of Public Security, to prevent armed acts of terrorist organizations residential area or in rural areas, to rescue hostages in places like aircraft, land vehicles, ships, subways, trains, and in enclosed spaces like buildings, to ensure the safety in cities and in civil aviation airports with special skills, modern weapons, ammunition, vehicles, equipment, tactics and techniques.
In larger cities like Ankara, Istanbul, and İzmir, "Special Operations Group Authorities "(Turkish: Özel Harekat Grup Amirlikleri) were organized in the same year. As a result of changing conditions, in 1987, the office was transferred to the Anti-Terrorism and Operations Department under the name "Special Operations Branch" (Turkish: Özel Harekat Şubesi). In 1993, the Special Operations Branch was promoted to a department and gained its current structuring.
İbrahim Şahin was head of the Department until being forced to resign in 1996 over the Susurluk scandal. Ayhan Çarkın was a notable member of the department in the 1990s.
Training
To qualify for PÖH, an applicant must:
Run the 2500m designated area with a backpack weighing 10 kg, under 15 minutes
Have 50% minimum accuracy in pistol and rifle shooting
Swim 150 m without stopping
Be between ages 18 and 32
Have graduated from police high school or university
In addition, a training simulation called TAKSİS is conducted by TÜBİTAK.
Expert marksmanship, shooting techniques, fast and effective use of weapons, residential warfare, airplane-train-bus operation, rescue operation with or without hostages, negotiation, psychological, survival, commando, mountaineering, basic diving, surface boat operations, sniping, superior physical conditioning training.
After 6 months of training, the applicant will receive a certificate officially identifying himself as an operator of PÖH.
Tactics
PÖH uses automatic and special weapons and rapid deployment tactics for exceptional circumstances such as bank robberies, kidnappings, and hostage rescues, among others. The nature of the unit is quite like US SWAT units or the German GSG 9. PÖH mostly specializes in counter-terrorism (CT) operations against forces and is able to undertake operations in many environments, including buses and planes.
Police Special Operation Department is one of a handful of security forces in the world which employs active front line female squad members in combat operations.
Equipment
= Handguns
=Yavuz 16
Steyr M
SIG Sauer P226
Glock 17
Sarsılmaz Kılınç 2000
Canik TP9
Beretta 92
CZ 75
= Shotguns
=Akdal MKA 1919
= Submachine guns
=Heckler & Koch MP5
IMI Uzi
= Assault rifles
=M16A2
M4A1
Heckler & Koch HK416
Heckler & Koch HK417
SIG Sauer SIG516
Steyr AUG
MKEK MPT-55
MKEK MPT-76
= Sniper rifles
=LMT MWS 308
Steyr SSG 69
Steyr SSG 08
Arctic Warfare Police
Accuracy International AX50
Barrett M107
PSL
= Grenade lauchers
=Milkor M32A1
PENN arms 37mm grenade launcher
= Machine guns
=CS/LM8
FN Minimi
M60 machine gun
= Vehicles
=Otokar Akrep
Otokar Cobra
Nurol Ejder
BMC - Kirpi
= Attack Helicopters
=T129 ATAK
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Britania Raya
- Hong Kong
- Amerika Serikat
- Kota Isabela
- Data pribadi
- Negara Islam Irak dan Syam
- Insiden Mayaguez
- Andorra
- Invasi Ukraina oleh Rusia
- Zimbabwe
- Police Special Operation Department
- Los Angeles Police Department
- List of police tactical units
- Boston Police Department
- Tallahassee Police Department
- Department of the Air Force Police
- Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia
- Accuracy International AX50
- United States Special Operations Command
- Joint Special Operations Command
