In a bid to combat terror activities in urban areas, the State police on Monday formed a Special Tactical Unit comprising 30 Special Operation Group (SOG) jawans who were specially trained by the National Security Guard (NSG) in all forms of special operations including warfare techniques.
Chief Secretary Jugal Kishore Mohapatra inaugurated the newly-created unit at a special function here.Mohapatra said, “With the formation of the Special Tactical Unit the operational capability of the State police will be strengthened, besides focusing on terror activities in urban areas in the State.”
“The capacity of the unit will be gradually increased in future to meet the challenges of time,” said Director General of Police Prakash Mishra.
“In the first phase, we inducted 30 SOG jawans, who are especially skilled for anti-Maoist operation in the tactical unit to meet any kind of eventuality arising out of terror threat and high-risk hostage crisis. Another 30 SOG jawans are still undergoing training by the NSG and will be inducted in the tactical unit later to meet any kind of eventuality,” said Mishra. The highly-trained jawans too demonstrated various types of acts here at the OSAP Seventh Battalion premises.