New Special Force in Kerala Police Unit Soon

15 May 2013
Thiruvananthapuram

Kerala Police Team will soon be establishing a new squad named as KATS that will be under operational control of Additional Director of Police and will be trained to “lurk, survive and fight for extended periods” in “inaccessible and inhospitable terrains,” including the State’s vast forests (28.9 per cent of its total land area) and its maze of lagoons and inland waterways dotted with scores of sparsely populated and uninhabited islets

The squads will report to the government on issues, social and material, that can lead to alienation and radicalisation of such people, including the urban poor, so that the State can take pre-emptive action through accurate targeting of subsidies and welfare measures. The squad members will be trained to administer primary health care and impart basic education and living skills to remote dwelling people.

The KATS will operate in units having not less than 40 combatants, including those trained as medics, snipers and communications and signals experts. The State police will harness the expertise of instructors from the Central Reserve Police Force’s Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA), Grey Hounds, the anti-Maoist force of the Andhra Pradesh Police, and the Indian Army’s Counter Insurgency and Jungle Warfare School, Mizoram, to train the battalion.

Source– http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/police-to-raise-kerala-antiterror-squad/article4714831.ece

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