page_title: Pasukan Gerakan Khas
section_title: VAT 69
hierarchical_section_title: Pasukan Gerakan Khas / History / Formation of Police SOCOM / VAT 69
caption_attribution_description: 69 Commando operator of the CIW team preparing to storm the enemy.
context_page_description: Pasukan Gerakan Khas is a special operations command of the Royal Malaysia Police. The PGK has two distinct sub-units; the Special Actions Unit and the 69 Commando Battalion.
  Operators of UTK and VAT 69 are specially trained to intervene in high-risk events like hostage and barricade situations by hostile forces, especially terrorists and/or criminals. It originally had over 4,000 full-time operators, but its actual size and organisation are classified. Both units commonly function as a high-level national tactical team in extremely sensitive or dangerous situations.
context_section_description: The 69 Commando Battalion, also known as Very Able Troopers 69 (VAT 69), Task Force, Charlie Force and Special Project Team, is modeled on and trained by the British Special Air Service and New Zealand Special Air Service. It was founded in 1969 (hence the name – 69) as a small combat unit to counter the tactics and techniques of the communist forces of the Second Malayan Emergency. Initially established as an elite counter-insurgency force, the roles of counter-terrorism were added to the VAT 69 in the 1990s after the Second Malayan Emergency officially ends.
caption: Operator from 69 Commando CIW Team preparing to storm the enemy.
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