Special Action Force

""By skill and virtue, we triumph""

- Special Action Force motto The Special Action Force (SAF) is the National Mobile Unit of the Philippine National Police founded by Fidel V. Ramos. The SAF, over the years, has received training from the Hostage Rescue Team (HRT), Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG), RAID and Yamam. The Anti-Terrorist Unit (ATU) of the PNP-SAF is responsible for nationwide police counter-terrorism (CT) operations nationwide.

SAF members are required to undergo SAF COMMANDO Operations Course (or equivalent training) to be allowed to wear the SAF Beret. It serves also as the foundation course or requisite of other SAF specialization trainings such as Explosives and Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Basic Airborne Course (BAC), Urban Counter Revolutionary Warfare (SURESHOCK), SCUBA-BUSROC (Basic Under-Water Search and Rescue Operations Course) and others.

SAF members who are distributed either regionally or within Metro Manila are furthermore assigned to SRU or SWAT training units and PNP SCOUT training Units. SAF troopers are trained at their camp at Fort Sto. Domingo with its Air Unit stationed at the PNP Hangar in Pasay City.

Created on May 12, 1983 by the Philippine Constabulary (PC) as Philippine Constabulary Special Action Force (PCSAF) as per PC General Orders 323. Generals Fidel Ramos and Renato De Villa were the founders of the unit. After which, a training program called the PCSAF Ranger Course, was used to train the 1st generation of SAF troopers, which had a number of 149 troopers. Out of them, 26 were commissioned officers with the others being enlisted personnel from a wide range of PC units such as the PC Brigade, the Long Range Patrol Battalion (LRP), the K-9 Support Company, PC Special Organized Group, the Light Reaction Unit (LRU) of PC METROCOM, the Constabulary Off-Shore Action Command (COSAC) and other PC Units. Later on, they changed the name of the course to SAF Operations Course (SAFOC) then SAF Commando Course (SAFCC).

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