BIP : cinq choses à savoir sur l’unité d’élite de la police
In a report by EvenProd, widely circulated by Les Échos, Commissioner Masserigne Faye, former commander of the Brigade (2009-2013), sheds light on its inner workings. Excerpts.
1. Birth
The Senegalese police's Multipurpose Intervention Brigade (BIP) was created in 1975. This was three years after the "Munich massacre," the hostage crisis at the 1972 Olympic Games that resulted in the deaths of eleven Israeli athletes, targeted by terrorists, a German police officer, and five assailants. The Senegalese government deemed it necessary to equip the police with an elite unit capable of confronting the new threats of the time, particularly terrorism.
2. Missions
The BIP pursues four main missions: close protection of high-ranking officials, high-risk intervention, neutralization of explosives and operational support to other police units.
3. Close protection
Ensuring the physical safety of high-ranking officials is one of the BIP's missions. This is why ministers are accompanied by officers from this police unit. Members of certain official foreign delegations and the national football team receive the same protection.
4. International
The BIP operates beyond Senegal. It joins Senegalese contingents on peacekeeping missions abroad for the United Nations. Deployed personnel carry out the most complex operations, such as site security, crisis management, and explosives disposal.
5. Blunt
The BIP has had some resounding successes, but also a few setbacks. Among these was the attempted arrest of the marabout Khadim Bousso, shortly after Wade came to power. He lost his life during the operation, under dubious circumstances. This episode "remains one of the few missions that went wrong in the brigade's history," notes Les Échos, which extensively reprinted Evenprod's report revisiting the history of the BIP.
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