Elite World Cops (2008)
Elite World Cops
2008Elite World Cops is a television series starring former SAS soldier and author Chris Ryan. Ryan travels the world meeting some of the worlds most elite police units. The format of the show usually involves Ryan training with the unit, observing tactics and hardware and comparing them to his own experiences in the SAS. The show is currently airing on Bravo in the United Kingdom. It also airs on the USA National Geographic Channel renamed as Shadow Soldiers.
Seasons & Episode
Premiere of the gripping series that sees the author and former SAS soldier shadow the world's most remarkable police units. Chris joins the Junglas, an elite police unit that patrols the Colombian jungle in search of coca plantations and the associated cocaine-producing laboratories in order to disrupt the lucrative trade in the drug.
The author and former SAS soldier shadows the world's most remarkable police units to confront crime on the frontline. In Rio de Janeiro he operates alongside the BOPE, the special operations battalion of Brazil's military police, as they embark on a typical mission in the city's slums which are rife with drug-dealing gangs.
The author and former SAS soldier spends a week in Almaty, the capital of Kazakhstan, and trains with a unit of 120 men coached to handle situations beyond the usual police remit.
In Mexico the crime rate is so high, most of the police is army and combat trained, to survive the rage and aggression of the street gangs. Ryan joins a special task force of the federal police of Mexico, on their hunt for gangs and local drug labs. He is also involved in a large training excersize involving a Boeing 777-200ER in a hostage situation
Ryan joins the Special Police Task Force of Sri Lanka, in their fight against the Tamils. He learns stragetic driving, and urban warfare in the jungle. He goes on a mission to track down and arrest two Tamil scouts on a watchpost, and a small scale training operation involving the use of C4 in a warehouse.
Elite World Cops is a television series starring former SAS soldier and author Chris Ryan. Ryan travels the world meeting some of the worlds most elite police units. The format of the show usually involves Ryan training with the unit, observing tactics and hardware and comparing them to his own experiences in the SAS. The show is currently airing on Bravo in the United Kingdom. It also airs on the USA National Geographic Channel renamed as Shadow Soldiers.