Special Action Forces

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Special Action Forces
Fuerzas de Acciones Especiales
Active	April 2016; 8 years ago (2016-04)
Country	Venezuela
Branch	Venezuelan National Police
Type	Police tactical unit
Size	800-1000[1]
Nickname(s)	FAES

The Special Action Forces (Spanish: Fuerzas de Acciones Especiales de la Policía Nacional Bolivariana, FAES) is an elite command of the Venezuelan National Police created in April 2016.^[2][3] By 2019, it had around 1,300 officers.^[4] The FAES includes the Unidad de Operaciones Tácticas Especiales (UOTE) a police tactical unit.^[5] The FAES have been accused of being a political instrument of Nicolás Maduro,^[2] as well as being a death squad and of repressing the opposition.^[6][7][8]