RADA Special Deterrence Forces

RADA Special Deterrence Forces
وزارة الداخلية - قـــوةْ الـــرَدَعْ الخـَــاصَـــةْ
Founded	approx 2011-2012 (5 years ago)
Country	Libya
Allegiance	Presidential Council (Libya)
Role	SWAT / Militarized Police Ops
Size	Approx. 10000
Part of	Ministry of Interior
Website	RADA Deterrence Forces on Facebook
Commanders
Leadership	Abdul Raouf Kara

RADA Special Deterrence Forces (Arabic: وزارة الداخلية قـــوةْ الـــرَدَعْ الخـَــاصَـــةْ ‎‎), Interior Ministry Special forces RADAA or the Interior Ministry - RADA Special Deterrence Forces is a new special operations military police investigations and operations unit formed in Tripoli Libya for the purpose of tackling rampant crime in the current Political and security vacuum - 2016. Recent high-profile Kidnappings,^[1] murders, drug and alcohol poisoning related deaths, illegal migrant smuggling, weapons smuggling, explosives smuggling, terrorist attacks and plots and a lack of political power and police force in Tripoli provoked the founding of a special unit of police force to tackle the current crime status in Libya.

The current leadership of this specialized police force is hardline islamist Abdul Raouf Kara^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

History

RADA special forces was originally a fighting unit that helped topple dictator Muammar Gaddafi in the Feb 17th, 2011 Revolution. After the removal of Gaddafi, Abdul Rauf Kara was member of the police force formed by the Supreme Security Committee with reported 700 men at his disposal. The Supreme Security Committee (SSC) was then dissolved into the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Libya^[7] where his forces were then relabeled as RADA Special Deterrence forces under the guidance of the Ministry of Interior.

Operations

RADA Special Deterrence Forces operates as an independent department under the Ministry of Interior,^[8] and implements a focused anti-narcotics and police force mandate. RADA Special Forces are involved in police work, investigations, arrests, patrols, checkpoints, and other anti-crime activities. This organisation actively and publicly releases images and online footage displaying the seizure smuggled explosives and its components smuggled by terrorists, unregulated alcohol seizures, unregulated medical goods such as highly addictive Tramadol, dollar-dinar black market inflation control arrests, arrests of suspects of terrorism and terrorist affiliates, arrests of kidnappers and other high time criminals, arrests of smugglers of both goods and immigrants, raids on buildings believed to house illegal contraband, etc.

The RADA Special Deterrence Forces organization operates within Tripoli but also outside the capital, in cities such as Sabratha, Zawiah, Benghazi, Sirte, Dernah, etc

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