At the Special Operations Presidency's campus in Gölbaşı district, while training is given to new recruits to the special operations ranks, on the other hand, the skills acquired by the expert teams are constantly updated with exercises. Young police officers who complete the special operations basic training course are given in-service training planned throughout the year, including weapons and ammunition, sniper, explosives, use of armored vehicles, building, terrain, tactical mountaineering, underwater, intervention to the wounded, effective use of force, search and rescue and survival. He specializes in fields such as
While PÖHs are subjected to in-service training, they also run for miles with or without equipment in order to keep their physical condition at the highest level. Explaining the difficult training process, the instructor commissioner stated that as the operation branches, they did not slow down in the trainings.
Expressing that they implemented the difficulties they experienced in the field by increasing the level of difficulties they experienced in the drills, the instructor commissioner said, “We aim to increase the mobility of our personnel to the highest level in the possibilities and conditions by changing the difficulty level of the operations we experienced in the training before. In these trainings, there are building and vehicle operations, maps, tactical mountaineering, search and rescue in nature in winter conditions, sniper courses. Our special operations police, who have undergone these trainings, are capable of carrying out all kinds of operations in the country and abroad.” he said.
They Use The Most Modern Weapons
After the theoretical training, the special operations police rescue the hostages in planes, buildings and public transportation vehicles or neutralize the terrorists hiding in the caves, as per the scenario, in places that are exactly like the real ones. Participating in exercises that look like movie scenes under the direction of expert trainers, PÖHs use the most modern weapons with the latest technology products.
According to the scenario, the teams, which view the place and land where the operation will be held from the air with a drone, and then take action in a planned manner, successfully fulfill the tasks assigned to them under water, in the residential area or in the countryside.
In order to achieve their goals, PÖHs sometimes blow up walls and sometimes neutralize targets set hundreds of meters away by using rockets and flamethrowers. The snipers, who become almost invisible with the camouflage materials they choose according to the area they work in, also provide support and protection to their colleagues by hitting the target from an average distance of 12 kilometers.
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