{"id":4927,"date":"2020-11-18T10:03:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T06:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goc2020.govmu.org\/policenew\/?page_id=4927"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T05:22:45","slug":"special-supporting-unit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/?page_id=4927","title":{"rendered":"Special Support Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4927\" class=\"elementor elementor-4927\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-0c43b10 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"0c43b10\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fa641c4\" data-id=\"fa641c4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40d2b16 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"40d2b16\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ssunew.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-5050\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d9db2d8\" data-id=\"d9db2d8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9b1edc9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9b1edc9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Special Support Unit (SSU) acquired its current appellation in 1986. However, its existence can be traced as far as 1937 when a \u201cPolice Reserve\u201d was constituted by Inspector General Godfrey. This detachment was based in Line Barracks and was trained, equipped and prepared to deal with any eventuality.<\/p><p>In 1957 the \u201cPolice Reserve\u201d had a strength of one Assistant Superintendent, Six Sergeants and thirty Constables and by 1961 it was reinforce with one Inspector and twenty Constables.<\/p><p>In 1964 the \u201cPolice Reserve\u201d was transferred to Vacoas under the new name of Police Riot Unit (PRU) and in 1966 a new unit with the appellation Riot Unit No 2 was formed and they occupied the barracks at Beau Bassin.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-53a4529 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"53a4529\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e154d1c\" data-id=\"e154d1c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3971ad1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3971ad1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Today the SSU, which in the mean time, had moved back to Line Barracks consists of five operational units and a training wing under the command of an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP).<\/p><p>The primary objective of the SSU is to assist the Regular Police in controlling civil unrest whenever the situation escalates beyond its control. However the SSU also supports the regular Police in a variety of functions such as providing security to sensitive and vulnerable points, crowd control, searching for missing persons, tracking criminals and escorting dangerous prisoners.<\/p><p>The deployment of the SSU, provides the required back up to the regular Police to deal effectively with problems relating to Law and Order.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Support Unit (SSU) acquired its current appellation in 1986. However, its existence can be traced as far as 1937 when a \u201cPolice Reserve\u201d was constituted by Inspector General Godfrey. This detachment was based in Line Barracks and was trained, equipped and prepared to deal with any eventuality. In 1957 the \u201cPolice Reserve\u201d had &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/?page_id=4927\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Special Support Unit<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4927","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6637,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4927\/revisions\/6637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/police.govmu.org\/police\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}