page_title: Mossos d'Esquadra
section_title: Becoming part of this area GEI
hierarchical_section_title: Mossos d'Esquadra / Becoming part of this area GEI
caption_attribution_description: English: Police of catalonia
context_page_description: The Mossos d'Esquadra are the police force of Catalonia, largely replacing the Spanish Policía Nacional and Guardia Civil.
  They trace their origins back to squads formed in 1719.
context_section_description: Special intervention group (GEI) in Catalan: Grup Especial d'Intervenció.
  The Area of Special Intervention Groups or AGEI (or simply GEI) is a Mossos d'Esquadra body specialized in interventions with a high risk of armed violence (such as terrorist detention, rescues of hostages, protection of personalities , etc.). This police area depends organically on the Intervention Division In the Anglo-Saxon world the equivalent to this type of police are the SWAT.
  This group created in 1984 with de collaboration of Spezialeinsatzkommando (SEK) of Germany. and Grupo Especial de Operaciones (GEO) 1991 .
  Becoming part of this area is not at all easy and it is necessary to pass a selection process that lasts one whole year: Up to 350 candidates were presented to the promotion in 2009, but only 11 were asked for the most aptitudes The first phase, of a physical nature, consists of several tests of strength and resistance, medical and psychotechnical; It was then surpassed by 42 agents. The difficult phase of adaptation consists in an intense multidisciplinary training in which for 30 days the candidates get rid of the world and suffer hard tests of physical resistance and sacrifice, in conditions of great appetite, sleep, cold and stress: Aspiring people have to overcome situations of high risk limit (such as throwing themselves into the void, making the bridge jump without hesitation or screaming or showing fear, ...), vertigo situations (go and
  enter the area
  return to two meters of a vacuum wooden board), claustrophobia, melee (although losing it does not mean that it is eliminated), think of conditions of exhaustion (make a puzzle after hours of not sleeping), etc. To the promotion of 2009 this phase was exceeded by 11 candidates. Then comes a third phase of training, of 750 hours (which actually end up turning more than 1000), to be carried out during the next six months. Finally the fourth and final phase is the period of practices in which the aspirants are already integrated into the activities of the AGEI and lasts for three months, which was only surpassed by 9 agents. (2,6% of the total)
  Currently approximately 400 agents are formed, all that is related to this area is secret.
caption: Special intervention group of Mossos d'esquadra
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