The Mobile Anti-Riot Squads (ESMAD), the Police Unit Implicated in Multiple Killings, Returns in Colombia | Peace Brigades International-Canada
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The Police, through Resolution 03226 of October 13, created the National Anti-riot Unit and resumed the name of the Mobile Anti-riot Squadron (Esmad). This regulation is the natural follow-up to the government's modification to the decree regulating social protest, which premiered in this Wednesday's mobilizations. In practice, the resolution repeals the 03684 of November 11, 2022 that changed the name to the Esmad by the Unit for Dialogue and M…
The Mobile Anti-Riot Squads (ESMAD), the police unit implicated in multiple killings, returns in Colombia | Peace Brigades International-Canada
Photo: In May 2026, PBI-Colombia accompanied dhColombia at the hearings in the case of Castillo de la Ossa who was killed by the Esmad. The Madrid-based digital newspaper Demócrata reports: “The Colombian Executive has initiated a new reorganization of the National Police by which the former Dialogue and Order Maintenance Unit (UNDMO), created during the […]
Abelardo De La Espriella changes the name of the UNDMO to UNADI and incorporates ESMAD into its structure. Know what changes for the protests.
Police create the National Riot Unit and re-use the name ESMAD Agencia Period... Fri, 16/10/2026 - 20:23 The new resolution eliminates the Unit of Dialogue and Maintenance of Order (UNDMO).
The National Police created the National Anti-riot Unit and regained the name ESMAD for squadrons operating in protests.
Four years after its birth, the UNDMO disappears. A resolution signed by the Police sets the new name and a 90-day deadline.The entry The Police erased the UNDMO and created the Riot Unit was first published in Q'hubo Bucaramanga.
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