page_title: Somali Police Force
section_title: Special Operations Police Battalion
hierarchical_section_title: Somali Police Force / Structure / Special Operations Police Battalion
caption_attribution_description: English: Police officers from the new Somali Police Force Special Operations Battalion, are seen here patrolling the Mogadishu Green Zone, which includes several highly sensitive sites, such as the Aden Adde International Airport as well as the Headquarters of the United Nations Mission to Somalia
context_page_description: The Somali Police Force is the national police force and the main civil law enforcement agency of Somalia. As with most other police forces in the world, its duties include crime fighting, traffic control, maintaining public safety, and counter-terrorism. It is under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Public Security.
  It served from 1960 to 1991 as one of the principal organs of the Somali Armed Forces and upon reorganisation distanced itself away from the Armed Forces. While organised at a national level, each arm reports to a county police authority, which in turn divides its force by local Police Divisions, headquartered at local police stations; the police force was later reconstituted at the start of the 21st century.
  In an emergency, the police can be reached by dialing 888 from any telephone in Somalia.
context_section_description: This Special Operations Command Battalion known as Ciidanka Haramcad in Somali (Cheetah Unit), was inaugurated in March 2019 after the first company of 120 police cadets of a force that is envisage to number between 600-800 men, graduated from the Mountain Commando School and Training Center, in Isparta Turkey in February 2019.
  This unit has several responsibilities, to assist the Somali National Army in Counter-Insurgency operations in urban areas of Somalia, as a mobile reserve force, to pacify & police areas captured by the SNA allowing it to focus on its primary mandate in the short term of destroying Al-Shabaab as a fighting force in Somalia.
  As well as providing security for critical installations & infrastructure such as the Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu, and the Green Zone, as well as providing security to large public gathering's such as football fans during as Somali Football league match.
caption: Somali Police Special Operations Battalion officer's known as Cheetah Commando's Haramcad, patrolling the Mogadishu Green Zone, the site of several highly sensitive sites such the International Airport, several embassies, as well as the headquarters of the UN in Somalia.
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