Special Operations.Com
Angola
Special Operations and Counterterrorist
Forces
Rapid Reaction Police
While not a Special Operations Force,
the Angolan National Police's "Rapid Reaction
Police" are a specially-trained group and maintain
some capability in VIP protection and other advanced
police functions. There are mentioned here for
these reasons.
The RRP are mandated, according to the
Lusaka Accords, to the following:
1. The Rapid Reaction Police is one of the organs
of the Angolan National Police prepared to be used
in compliance with the legislation in force and the
relevant provisions of the Bicesse Accords and the
Lusaka Protocol, for the maintenance and restoration
of order, controlling situations of concerted violence,
fighting violent and organized crime, protecting strategic
installations and providing security for important
personalities.
2.. Any action by the Rapid Reaction Police shall
be carried out in compliance with the principle of
legality and at the request of the competent political
and administrative authorities.
3. The Rapid Reaction Police shall act in circumstances
in which other specialized organs of the Angolan National
Police find it technically impossible to act in conformity
with paragraph 6 above.
4. Once public order has been restored under the
terms of paragraph 6, the units of the Rapid Reaction
Police shall return to their installations.
5. The quartering of the Rapid Reaction Police and
the adaptation of its armament and equipment to the
nature of its mission shall be carried out under United
Nations verification and monitoring.
6. The Rapid Reaction Police shall be stationed only
at strategic locations in the country.
7. The existence of any other surveillance or policing
organ not expressly provided for under the legislation
in force or by the relevant provisions of the Bicesse
Accords and the Lusaka Protocol is forbidden.
8. All members—officers, sergeants and policemen—of
the Rapid Reaction Police shall undergo basic training
and specific courses adapted to their mission.
