{"id":58581,"date":"2025-01-31T20:43:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T19:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58581"},"modified":"2026-01-31T01:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:12:12","slug":"spanish-geo-police-officers-in-a-spectacular-video-from-the-finnish-defence-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/01\/31\/spanish-geo-police-officers-in-a-spectacular-video-from-the-finnish-defence-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish GEO police officers in a spectacular video from the Finnish Defence Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see, in Defense and Aviation I usually address issues that are related to the armed forces of very diverse countries.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/31\/el-espectacular-cortometraje-de-los-comcam-de-finlandia-mostrando-sus-fuerzas-armadas\/\">El espectacular cortometraje de los COMCAM de Finlandia mostrando sus Fuerzas Armadas<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/04\/the-numbers-of-land-air-and-naval-resources-that-finland-incorporates-into-nato\/\">The numbers of land, air and naval resources that Finland incorporates into NATO<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>In order to obtain the necessary information for writing my articles, I follow various communication channels of armed forces in various countries. <strong>One of the ones I have been following for years is<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@puolustusvoimat\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Youtube channel of the Puolustusvoimat (Finnish Defence Forces)<\/a>, which has a Combat Cameras (COMCAM) unit that does work of excellent visual quality. Every January for years, <strong>the Finnish COMCAMs publish a \"showreel\" with some of the images they recorded in the previous year.<\/strong> These videos never disappoint me. Some of them are the best military-themed content published in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Finnish COMCAM showreel for 2024 has been published today<\/strong> on the aforementioned YouTube channel. Finland joined NATO on April 4, 2023, so <strong>this video features personnel and defense systems from other allied countries<\/strong>, a fact that sends a clear message to Russia: Finland is no longer alone in defending itself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Combat Camera Showreel 2024 \u2013 Finnish Defence Forces\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AcLYbg2Jk9c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was watching this spectacular video until I came across this image<\/strong>, at point 3:04. I saw a detail here that looks very familiar to me, because I have a patch exactly like that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54299043129_afa73fe7e5_3c.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54299043129_644d8aa81e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In case you haven't seen the detail I'm referring to, I'll show it to you here in enlarged format: it's <strong>a flag with the Cross of Burgundy on a Multicam background<\/strong>. An emblem commonly used by the Spanish Armed Forces that represents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/06\/cross-of-burgundy-origin-and-history-of-the-oldest-of-the-flags-of-spain\/\">the longest-lived flag that Spain had<\/a> (it lasted 318 years). As far as I know, no military personnel from another European country wear this emblem, so <strong>the operators of the image are probably Spanish<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54299058703_6fd6013fe0_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54299058703_02e3430a11_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided to back up a bit in case I had missed any details of this scene, and came across more familiar things: <strong>these operators were carrying the shield of<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/15\/has-the-spanish-national-police-really-turned-200-years-old-some-historical-data\/\">200th anniversary of the National Police Corps (CNP)<\/a>, as we see on the right, and <strong>two of them are wearing the shield of the Special Operations Group (GEO) on their arms,<\/strong> the CNP's elite force. Furthermore, as can be seen in the following image, <strong>the uniforms feature the Multicam Black camouflage scheme<\/strong>, designed by the American firm Crye Precision and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/01\/04\/importantes-novedades-en-el-equipamiento-del-geo-de-la-policia-nacional-de-espana\/\">adopted by the GEO in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54299058658_6dc3284719_3c.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54299058658_fc16535c1b_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What we are seeing is most likely a CQC exercise<\/strong> (close quarters combat) conducted by the GEO in Finland. I have searched for any news that talks about this exercise but I have not found anything.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54299043139_bba8d6375d_3c.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54299043139_eab0133536_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for the weapons, <strong>the pistol we see in the first capture looks like a SIG Sauer P320<\/strong>, the standard weapon incorporated by the GEO in 2022, but in its training version (that's why the body of the weapon is blue).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54297936522_0ba0dd4db3_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54297936522_61c840a497_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I have doubts about the assault rifles. They look like<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/07\/hk416-the-excellent-german-rifle-that-could-replace-the-g36e-in-the-spanish-army\/\">Heckler & Koch HK416<\/a>, since the magazines are the usual ones for 5.56 mm caliber bullets, but I am not aware that the GEO uses this type of weapon. They do use the HK417, but it is not a very suitable weapon for CQC assaults.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54299236100_6c5fc8f99e_3k.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54299236100_0d2dd04eed_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see, in Defense and Aviation I usually address issues that are related to the armed forces of very diverse countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,17021],"tags":[14595,13611,18739,5449,14900,15140,23699,11916],"class_list":["post-58581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-special-forces","tag-combat-camera-comcam","tag-finland","tag-finnish-defense-forces","tag-grupo-especial-de-operaciones-geo","tag-heckler-koch-hk416","tag-multicam","tag-sig-sauer-p320","tag-spanish-national-police-corps"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-29 12:02:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}