page_title: Gruppo di intervento speciale
section_title: Organization and recruitment
hierarchical_section_title: Gruppo di intervento speciale / Organization and recruitment
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Army Parade in Rome, 2 june 2006, Festa della Repubblica Italiana. Carabinieri GIS (Special groups) Livorno
context_page_description: The Gruppo di Intervento Speciale is the special forces unit of the Italian Carabinieri. The Carabinieri, a branch of the Armed Forces responsible for both military and civil policing, formed GIS in 1978 as a police tactical unit. In 2004, GIS assumed a special operations role evolving to a special forces unit, in addition to the police tactical unit role, becoming part of the Comando interforze per le Operazioni delle Forze Speciali.
  The unit has taken part in counter-terrorism operations and VIP, executive and dignitary protection security. Since its inception, GIS has distinguished itself throughout Italy for efficiency and excellent preparation, and has also operated and operates in several theatres of war including Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Horn of Africa, as well as in all the countries where Italian diplomatic offices are at risk.
  In Italy, GIS is one of three police tactical units that can operate throughout the country, the other two being Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza of the Polizia di Stato and Antiterrorismo Pronto Impiego of the Guardia di Finanza.
context_section_description: Being an elite unit, the path that candidates have to make to access it is particularly hard and selective from the first phase that includes interviews and psycho-physical visits.
  The competition announcement (interpellation in jargon) was opened, from 2011, to members of the Carabinieri who are no more than 33 years old. It is therefore no longer an indispensable condition to be of the 1st Paratroopers Carabinieri Regiment "Tuscania".
  The course is called "G.I.S. operator with military patent of raider", because at the end of the training process the military receives the military patent of raider, as it happens in the other three Italian Special Forces already mentioned.
  The carabinieri who apply are sent to the 1st Tuscania Regiment. The first selection phase for the GIS involves an interview with a senior GIS officer who verifies motivation, a key element in becoming part of the department, followed by examination by psychologists and medical doctors. This first selection is passed by 40 percent of the candidates.
caption: GIS operators marching in public in the Rome Parade in 2006.
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