Special Operations Group (Brazil)

The Grupo de Operações Especiais (English: Special Operations Group), commonly known as GOE, was the police tactical unit of the Brazilian Civil Police of the state of São Paulo, Brazil, comparable to Rio de Janeiro's CORE. == History == Founded in 1991, the GOE served to assist conventional police units in high risk operations involving dangerous criminals, hostages, terrorists, and uprisings in the prison system. It was subordinate to the Departamento de Polícia Judiciária da Capital ("Judicial Capital Police Department") – DECAP. In 2005 they moved to new headquarters in Campo Belo in the southern zone of São Paulo which contains infrastructure appropriate to their role as a police tactical unit.

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