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Mounted Police officers in São Paulo, Brazil. The police force was founded by Brigadier General Rafael Tobias de Aguiar on December 15, 1831, originally as the São Paulo Municipal Imperial Guard. The MPSP of today was raised in 1935 as a result of its involvement in the Constitutionalist Revolution of 1932.
On November 7, the Military Police of São Paulo (PMESP) shot and killed four-year-old Ryan da Silva in Santos, a port city outside of São Paulo. The authorities' excuse, as is often the case in ...
The Grupo de Operações Especiais (Portuguese for Special Operations Group), mostly known by its acronym GOE, was a tier two police tactical unit of the Brazilian Civil Police of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It was comparable to Rio de Janeiro's CORE.
[18] [19] Violence against suspects and extrajudicial executions are known to be employed by police. [20] In the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the Military Police has been involved in several controversial massacres of civilians, typically in poor neighborhoods where high-profile criminals tend to hide.
The death toll from an ongoing raid in Sao Paulo state has climbed to 14, as law enforcement agents sought to strike at the people they blame for killing an elite squad officer last week. Sao ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Police in Rio de Janeiro killed at least nine people in a raid on Wednesday, in the latest example of deadly violence by Brazil's security officials after 16 people died ...
The Grupo de Ações Táticas Especiais (Portuguese for Special Tactical Actions Group), mostly known by its acronym GATE, is a hostage rescue, bomb disposal and Counter-terrorism unit of the Military Police of São Paulo State in Brazil. It is made up of the 4th, 5th and 6th Companies of the 4th Shock Police Battalion. It's operators are tier ...
The 1st Shock Police Battalion "Tobias de Aguiar" traces its origins to the 1st Caçador Battalion of São Paulo's Public Force, a battalion known for having participated in several historical conflicts such as the Naval Revolt, Federalist Revolution and Canudos War, as well as the São Paulo Revolt of 1924 and Constitutionalist Revolution. [5]