Polícia Aérea

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Polícia Aérea Air Police
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Country	Portugal
Branch	Air Force
Type	Military police

The Polícia Aérea (PA) (Air Police) is the military police of the Portuguese Air Force. The primary mission of the Air Police Force is to guarantee the security and immediate defense of the Air Force units in the Portuguese territory. Outside the national territory, it exerts its mission of supporting the air units detachments or of independent air means. Other missions include:

• Protection and defense of the Air Force's infrastructures, material and personnel;
• Detection and inactivation of explosive devices;
• Combat search and rescue;
• Force protection of PoAF personnel and aircraft.

Contents 1 Organization 2 Units 3 Equipment 3.1 Firearms 3.2 Vehicles 3.3 Anti-Air Artillery 4 External links

[edit] Organization

The Air Police is an Arm of its own inside the Air, and each Air Force base unit has, normally, one Air Police Post organized in the following way:

• Command;
• Operational Squad,
  • Instruction Sector,
  • Field Fire Range,
  • Criminal Investigation teams;
• Support Squad,
  • Identification and Control Sector,
  • Equipment and Material Sector,
  • Armament Section;

[edit] Units

• Current units:
  • NAFP: Núcleo de Aprontamento de Forças de Protecção (Protection Forces Readiness Nucleus) — Force protection, VIP protection, counter-terrorism, and combat search and rescue unit.
• Former units:
  • RESCOM (Resgate em Combate) — Combat search and rescue unit. Disbanded in 2006 - replaced by the NAFP[1]

[edit] Equipment

[edit] Firearms

• 7.62 mm Braço de Prata G3 m/61 assault rifle;
• 5.56 mm Braço de Prata G36 assault rifle;
• 9 mm Taurus submachine gun;
• 12.7 mm M82 Barrett rifle sniper rifle;
• 7.62 mm Sako TRG-22 sniper rifle;
• 7.62 mm Rheinmetall MG3 general purpose machine gun;
• 12.7 mm Browning .50 heavy machine gun;
• 9 mm Walther P38 service pistol;
• 9 mm Heckler & Koch USP service pistol;
• 66mm M72 LAW m/78 grenade launcher.

[edit] Vehicles

• Ferret Mk.2 (retired);
• Condor UR-425[2];
• DAF YP-408.

[edit] Anti-Air Artillery

• Doble 20mm Reinmetall Rh-202 m/81 AA machine-gun

[edit] External links

• Polícia Aérea course badge[3]