What is the assessment standard of the Flying Tigers and how to sign up?

Police elite only

The Hong Kong Police Force will recruit Flying Tigers from all police forces from time to time; In order to ensure the quality of the Flying Tigers, the police force will not openly recruit for the society. Applicants must work in other departments of the police force for at least two years before they are eligible to take the exam. According to Liu Chong, the requirements for applying for the Flying Tigers are very high. The first thing is that you can't smoke or drink.

No, alcohol and tobacco addiction is just the minimum standard. To truly become a member of the Flying Tigers, you must pass a very strict examination. What is one in a hundred? Candidates should be tested in two aspects: first, they should have excellent physical fitness and skills, and candidates should have outstanding skills; In particular, shooting skills are better than ordinary policemen, and fighting skills are better than other policemen. Second, players who want to be admitted to the Flying Tigers must have extraordinary psychological quality, and everyone who applies for the Flying Tigers must undergo a rigorous psychological test; However, the Flying Tigers have very high demands on the psychological quality of their players, and every applicant has to pass a psychological questionnaire. People who fail the psychological test will not be admitted even if they are excellent in other aspects.

In addition, applicants for the Flying Tigers must have a good personal work record; Show a very eager attitude towards their posts, and have good interpersonal relationships and team spirit. Due to the extremely strict application conditions, every member of the Flying Tigers cherishes this hard-won identity and has a strong sense of professional pride.

Choose carefully

In the 1970s, people who applied to join a special task company had to be recommended by their superiors. Later, in order to attract more potential personnel to try to select, it was changed to open selection in the mid-1990 s.

1999, the special task company reformed the selection criteria; Pay more attention to intelligence than physical fitness, so that more potential active police officers have the opportunity to show their strength. Competing in a balanced way, rather than simply being dominated by people with extraordinary physical strength. Applicants for joining the task force must have served in the police force for at least three years, have a good service record and good eyesight, and do not smoke or drink alcohol; Moreover, candidates who have been stationed in the police mobile unit will have some advantages, because their mastery of swimming and diving is unusual. After being recommended by the department head, the candidates enter the preliminary screening; Candidates who successfully pass the preliminary screening will be arranged to enter the basic selection process jointly organized by the special warfare company and the airport special police team for four days; These include intelligence, physical fitness (including unarmed combat, individual and collective load-bearing (carrying sandbags and supporting big cedar logs), long-distance running, long-distance swimming (for example, swimming from New Territories North Division of Marine Police to Liu Ma Marine Police Base and Marine Police Headquarters to Yazhou), diving and unarmed diving. ), physical and mental reaction, psychological stress test, ability tendency test and group spirit test when the selected players face danger and overcome difficulties. According to the official statistics in 2005, in the selection process of that year; There are 1 10 active police officers applying to join the task force company. As a result, only seven active police officers passed the above selection test and were eligible to become members of the Flying Tigers. As you can imagine, it is extremely difficult to be shortlisted. Those who have successfully passed the basic selection must receive a six-week basic training for special forces (full name: basic training for special forces, referred to as SUBT) jointly sponsored by the special warfare company and the airport special police team. ), including: the basic physical training of special forces, the control skills of armed fighting and free fighting, and the use of various types and different design styles of firearms in actual combat (according to the official statistics of the police, during the whole basic training process of special forces; All trainees need to receive all kinds of shooting training continuously, and more than 1500 bullets need to be fired during shooting training. ), anti-terrorism knowledge, field orientation, urban basic combat tactics, rural basic combat tactics, indoor close combat tactics, application of strategy and tactics, emergency response ability in the face of emergencies, blasting training of police explosives disposal bureau professors on how to assemble and disassemble bombs, VIP protection training of police VIP protection team professors, anti-terrorism security search training of police search police professors, negotiation training of police negotiation team professors, etc. Among them, the basic urban warfare tactics include how to observe, map knowledge, team cover, how to quickly descend to the target building through the roof and the engine room of the transport helicopter, how to forcibly break into the target building in battle formation to rescue hostages or arrest and kill gangsters (forced entry), etc. Basic rural combat tactical training includes how to conduct field observation, map knowledge, find cover and ambush points, and teamwork.

Those who successfully pass the above-mentioned training stage will enter the seven-day advanced selection process of special duty companies (full name: Special Duties Sunita Advanced Selection, commonly known as HellWeek in English). That is, the most cruel and harsh training we usually see in Hollywood war movies; Because of the cruel training conditions and standards, we usually call it Hell Week. )。 The purpose of this selection process is to comprehensively examine the candidates' own leadership, independent working ability, team spirit, psychological quality and personal physical quality to determine whether they are qualified to become full-time players. This advanced selection process is extremely challenging and difficult; From morning till night, including early morning, there is almost no rest time. However, the schedule of examination items is extremely tight, which is an extreme test of candidates' will and endurance. On the sixth day of sunshine, candidates will spend time in the water; During part of the last day, candidates will be arranged to run the full marathon within a limited time.

Candidates who pass the advanced selection process will enter an eight-month advanced anti-terrorism training course designed by the anti-terrorism special task company. ); The content includes physical training, unarmed combat, knife warfare, and the deployment skills of attack tactics of attack teams (including house sweeping skills and fast attack tactics, etc.). ), combat skills, reconnaissance skills, climbing skills, fast rope swimming skills, driving various vehicles and helicopters, action deployment and planning knowledge, military tactics, strategy and tactics, sniper training, blasting training, water attack team training and nuclear and biochemical skills. Students who successfully pass the course will be assigned to Team A or Team B of the attacking team as trainees. Only those who can successfully pass the probation period can become full members of the special task company.

Newly revised selection criteria

According to the news released by Lu, deputy director of the Hong Kong Police Force, the training mode and recruitment conditions are very different from those in the past. In order to avoid the advantage of people who are stationed in units that emphasize physical strength, since 20 14, the selection conditions that intelligence is more important than physical strength have been emphasized; In addition to being physically strong, players themselves must have excellent leadership skills and the wisdom and ability to think independently. The selection targets are police officers of all units, and the number and age of selection are not limited; And regardless of gender, people with myopia can participate in the selection if they wear contact lenses. From 20 13, the basic selection course was changed to four days, and those who passed the course could receive a five-week basic training course to prepare for the second selection. In this way, people from different units can get adequate training and improve the fairness of selection.