The phrase “Romanian special forces” has firmly and irrevocably gone into the realm of humor and occupies a leading position in its conditional sector “power structures”. All the absurdities, ridiculous circumstances and amusing failures of the special forces of the police and the army of almost all countries of the world are constantly "rhyming" with this phrase.
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This so-called aphorism arose thanks to the numerous videos on the Internet, which recorded evidence of extreme unprofessionalism, awkwardness, and very poor technical equipment of special units of the Romanian police. Honestly, it’s better to show them than to describe them.
Romanian special forces on football
The special resonance in 2013 was caused by the loud appearance (with flashing lights and siren) of special forces at the football match of the fourth division (amateur) of the Romanian championship between the Kishoda and Uniri teams (Sennicolaul-Marais). The policemen threw both teams, as well as everyone on the benches on the lawn, and began to search among them Sorin Udryu, who was involved in organizing a gang of extortioners. While the special forces, scaring law-abiding football players, figured out who was who, the Kishoda player Udrya, who did not take part in the match, almost calmly left the rostrum. Another point in favor of the Romanian special forces.
The failures recorded on the video gave rise to a whole series of staged fakes and similar situations in the armies and units of the whole world, completely unrelated to Romania. And all this goes under the brand name "Romanian special forces"
For example, the US Marine Corps.
In fact
Romanian special forces in no way belong to the Romanian army. Special forces in Romania belong to the police department, and there are several of them.
Best of all, SIAS, the Special Operations and Intervention Unit (Serviciul pentru Intervenţii şi Acţiuni Speciale), was created in 1995 to combat organized crime within the country. The tasks of the detachment: the neutralization of dangerous armed criminals, the release of hostages. This squad is also involved in helping people with natural disasters. In addition, he defends Romanian senior officials and foreign guests at the same level. The detachment has a large number of specialists working with explosives, you yourself understand why.
Which is actually the best Romanian special forces, can be seen in the video.
But the Special Group for Protection and Intervention (Grupul Special de Protecţie şi Intervenţie) was created in 2003, after the events in Moscow Dubrovka, and is more likely to prevent an external terrorist threat. More often this special forces is called “Aquila” (in Russian “eagle”, the eagle is on the coat of arms of Romania). Actively collaborates with similar services around the world. In 2009, it suffered a disbandment after a corruption scandal in the Romanian Ministry of the Interior. In 2015, restored. Organizationally and technically resembles the German Grenzschutzgruppe 9. Actually, Germany also provides technical and advisory assistance in the work of the group.
Judging by the inscriptions on the backs (SPIR), the video doesn’t even have special forces in the strict sense of the word. This is a special detachment of the municipal (regional) police (Quick Response Unit, an analogue of our SOBR). Naturally, he is inferior to professionals in everything.
There are other special forces in Romania. The country has a high level of crime and corruption: many law enforcement agencies are forced to duplicate each other.
So, in fact, not everything is so bad in Romania with special forces.
Folk Special Forces
It is sad that it turned out that some “specialists” inflicted serious damage on the authority of not only the Romanian special services, but also the entire Romanian people. The irony of fate is that the Romanian special forces are the heir to truly sinister structures: the pre-war and fascist Sigurans and the communist Securitates.
Let the expression “Romanian special forces” remain only a folkloric concept. After all, none of the Armenians is offended by the fact that there is an “Armenian radio”.