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OMON

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OMONOtdel Milicii Osobogo Naznacheniya (Russian: Department of Police for Special Assignment)


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Neighborhood police officers should redouble their efforts, and then there will be less need for OMON Special-Purpose Police Detachments and SOBR Special Rapid-Reaction Detachment in peacetime.
Some of the "elite" Interior Ministry units like the paramilitary police, OMON, and the police special reaction forces, SOBR, hurled into Grozny to replace the shattered motorized infantry in January and February 1995, were thrown together on a few days' notice from individual "volunteers" drawn from special police units all over the Russian Federation.
In accomplishing special tasks, they were reinforced with interior troops, SOBR special rapid-reaction detachments, OMON special-purpose police detachments, and Interior Ministry troops subunits.
 
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