Special Operations Battalion (PMAC)

Battalion of Special Police Operations (Portuguese: Batalhão de Operações Especiais - BOPE) is a special operations force of the Military Police of the State of Acre (PMAC), directly subordinated to the General Command.The BOPE of the Military Police of Acre, is the Specialized Unit of the State to intervene in critical events involving hostage rescue, rural operations, shock operations and other specific missions. In addition to being the creator, diffuser and maintainer of all operational doctrine of the local military police, it is the troop created and maintained to provide operational support to the other PMAC Units, being, therefore, the last one in the escalation of force to the convenience of employment by the High Command Rank of the Corporation.[1]

Not to be confused with Battalion of Special Operations.

Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais
Patch & Beret Badge
Common nameBOPE
MottoFaca na Caveira
Knife in the Skull / Victory Over Death
Agency overview
Formed1990
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionAcre, Brazil
Location of the State of Acre in Brazil
Governing bodyMilitary Police of Acre State
Operational structure
Agency executive
  • Lieutenant Colonel Wilman René Gonçalves Alonso, Commander
Parent agencyMilitary Police of Rio de Janeiro State

History

Decree 155 of March 28, 1990, published in the D.O.E. 5,260 / 90, provides for the creation and structuring of the 1st Military Police Battalion, “Battalion José Plácido de Castro”; this structure included the Special Operations companies - (Portuguese: Companhia de Operações Especiais - COE). Created since then, the COE, only in 1996, starts to function, being provisionally installed in the Headquarters of the General Command, as an Independent companies.[2]

In 1998, it was subordinated to the 1st Military Police Battalion, settling on its premises. In 1999, the COE was transferred to its own facilities. With the publication of Law No. 2001 of March 31, 2008, which reorganizes the Basic Structure of the Military Police, regulated by Ordinance No. 425 / DRHM, dated August 5, 2010, COE becomes a Special Operations Battalion - BOPE , Unit directly subordinated to the Operational Policing Command - CPO I.[3]

Since its creation, BOPE, according to the PMAC Restructuring Ordinance, will be employed in special and extraordinary missions of ostensive police and for the preservation of public order within the limits of the state territory.

The organizational structure of BOPE comprises the following Subunits:

Ranks and insignia
Title Insignia
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captain
First Lieutenant
Second Lieutenant
Sub-Lieutenant
First Sergeant
Second Sergeant
Third Sergeant
Corporal
Private "A Class"
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See also

References
  1. "Poder Judiciário do Estado do Acre | Assessoria Militar do TJAC fica entre os primeiros premiados durante torneio de tiro em alusão ao aniversário da PMAC". www.tjac.jus.br.
  2. "Batalhão de Operações Especiais comemora quinto aniversário". www.acreaovivo.com.
  3. Redação, Da (7 February 2011). "Batalhão de Operações Especiais da Polícia Militar completa 15 anos".
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