Special Operations Battalion (PMAC)

Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais
Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais
	Patch & Beret Badge
Common name	BOPE
Motto	Faca na Caveira; Knife in the Skull / Victory Over Death
Agency overview
Formed	1990
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction	Acre, Brazil
	Location of the State of Acre in Brazil
Governing body	Military Police of Acre State
Operational structure
Agency executive	Lieutenant Colonel Wilman René Gonçalves Alonso, Commander;
Parent agency	Military Police of Rio de Janeiro State

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]

History[edit]

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:

Special Operations companies - COE,
Riot Control companies
Dog Policing companies.

Ranks and insignia[edit]

Title	Insignia
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captain
First Lieutenant
Second Lieutenant
Sub-Lieutenant
First Sergeant
Second Sergeant
Third Sergeant
Corporal
Private "A Class"