If I'm not mistaken the unit in question is the Batalhao de Operacoes Policiais Especiais, though pictures of them usually show them in tacticool police black storm trooper gear rather than urban camo. In terms of operational intensity (even outside Brazil's recent push to clean out the favela gangs before the sports tourists starts rolling into Rio) and the level of resistance they face they pretty much make LAPD SWAT look like Hollywood's idea of a cheerful old retirement age Irish beat cop.
There's a documentary about them in the extras on the DVD for the Brazilian movie City of God (which is about the favela drug gangs) that mentions they average something in excess of 300 officer involved shootings a year (that's not Rio Police overall, that's this one unit of about 400 officers). There's also the more recent Brazilian film Tropa de Elite (screenplay by the same guy who wrote City of God) about the unit that depicts them as being proactive to a level that in the US would probably get the entire city government thrown in jail. Pretty good action flick, though.
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