Police Field Forces
In counter insurgency type campaigns, select and specially trained units of police armed and equipped as light infantry have been designated as police field forces who perform paramilitary type patrols and ambushes whilst retaining their police powers in areas that were highly dangerous.
Examples of these are:
- Royal Malaysian Police Police Field Force/General Operations Forces (Malayan Emergency)
- Kenya Police General Service Unit (Mau Mau Uprising)
- Tanzania Police Police Field Force (Zanzibar Revolution)
- Gambia Police Field Force
- Republic of Vietnam National Police Field Force (Vietnam War)
- British South Africa Police Support Unit (Rhodesian Bush War)
- Royal Solomon Islands Police Force Police Field Force
- Sri Lanka Special Task Force (Sri Lankan Civil War)
- Namibia Special Field Force
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