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♣ POLICE:

ESMAD (Colombia)



ESMAD: Is the acronym for the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad, a specialized agency of the Operations Division of the National Police of Colombia, whose mission is to provide support to regular forces citizens to riot and public shows



Duties: Assist departments and metropolitan police in crowd control and management, when its capacity has been exceeded in human talent and material means.

Advance training processes to operational units in the country and police training schools in order to standardize procedures in the control and crowd management.



Creation: By Directive Transitional # 0205 of 24 February 1999, the Directorate General of Police squad organized and structured to resolve a temporary situation. Subsequently, by resolution # 01,363 on 14 April that year, the Director General of Police formalized mobile riot squad activity.



Composition: Mobile Anti-Riot Squad is composed of officers and troopers trained in riot control and management. They have a special protective suit (body protector), shield and support of tanks firing water pressure, have the authority to make temporary detentions of citizens in excess of authority. The events where their presence is most noticeable are the student protests at public colleges and professional football games.

The ESMAD has a permanent presence in eleven cities: Two companies in Bogotá, one in Cali, one in Medellin, one in Bucaramanga, one in Barranquilla, one in Pereira, one in Pasto, Popayan one in, one in Valledupar, one in Cartagena and one in Neiva. for a total of twelve Mobile Riot squads. Each squadron is operating within its area of influence.

Each squadron consists of five officers, 8 non-commissioned officers and 150 patrolmen.



♣ TERRORIST:

Encapuchados (Colombia)



Capuchos or Encapuchados:
Are the best known names, with designating the groups of student-protesters-presumably expressing their discontent in the Colombian public universities, often through the use of force and violence, and who hide their identity from feet to head to avoid disciplinary reprisals, and even extra-judicial. The term "cocoon" derives from "hood" and is a term used mainly by the community college. The national press usually continue to use the term "hoodie".



Description: One could say that they are the most radical faction, often leftist or socialist, of the Colombian student movement and show how powerful and aggressive of the discontent of young people from what they call neo-liberalism, imperialism, privatization higher education, abuse of public authority, policies that undermine education and health, information bias of mass media, and the indifference of the Colombian citizens, but are not only young radicals or revolutionaries too many young people who use this method of protest as a last resort against the indifference of the agencies against the protesters.



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