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The judicial police branch is responsible for criminal investigations, working in close coordination with the Office of the Public Prosecutor in the Ministry of Justice. Police are assigned to the capitals of the wilayat are under the nominal control of the individual governors. A special riot police force is equipped with modern riot-control gear.
For eight years, from 1954 to 1962, Algerian military forces struggled against French colonists in a fight to gain independence. Initially founded in 1954, the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) acted as a rigid military force for Algeria, primarily using guerrilla warfare tactics, sabotage and occasional ambushes. Major objectives of the FLN ...
That same year, the police created the first search and intervention brigade (BRI) in Algiers, to replace the police intervention unit (UISP), which was the Algerian police intervention group and had been disbanded a year earlier. [4] The BRI is the first special forces unit in Algeria. The BRI is the intervention unit of the judicial police.
A GOSP police officer during a protection and escort mission. The Police Special Operations Group (French: Groupement des Opérations Spéciales de la Police, GOSP; Arabic: جمهرة العمليات الخاصة للشرطة) is a police tactical unit of the Algerian Police. It was created the July 22, 2016, the unit participates throughout ...
Algerian forces killed two men and detained a third after they strayed across Morocco's maritime border with Algeria on water scooters, according to Moroccan media reports. A French citizen was ...
The Special Intervention Group (French: Groupe d'Intervention Spécial, GIS) is a tier one special forces unit created in Algeria [1] [2] in 1987, [3] initially with 400 members. History [ edit ]
The Auxiliary Police Force (FPA—Force de police auxiliaire) was created in 1959. This special constabulary force, under the authority of the Algerian Affairs Coordination Center of the Prefecture of Police ( Centre de coordination des Affaires algériennes de la préfecture de police ) and supervised by the military, was under Papon's control.
Three Libyan fighters of a military force based in Tripoli were killed in clashes with smugglers and drug dealers in the desert near the border with Algeria, the force said in a statement on Tuesday.