Selection and Training
Members of the SPUs are carefully selected and specially trained. The Special Police College conducts nationwide recruitment once a year.
Students are selected from PAP soldiers and squad leaders with excellent performance. The pre-screening process involves a 3-month mentally and physically demanding assessment and selection, where some recruits will be eliminated.
This is followed by a three-year study in one of the two major fields: Armed Reconnaissance and Special Warfare. Upon successful completion of these courses graduates are assigned to the regional and municipal SPU/SWAT teams as Second Lieutenant officers.
Only a small number of the most excellent graduates would be selected to join the college's operation unit
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