BOPE facility

It is said that BOPE training is the most hard-core prepared in the world: above the Israel police, if you can believe it, due to the nature of urban warfare that they have to survive. If you haven't already, check out the movie Tropa de Elite, or Elite Squad, which tells a story through training and operation of BOPE. For one reason or another, Maceio has a BOPE facility, and proudly our Boxing instructor at our gym is ex-BOPE. I took these pictures of the front of the training facility as we drove by (thus the quality...) Note their seal, Faca na Caveira, or Knife in the Skull, (nice, right?) and the mural painted on the words BOPE. CRAZY!