{"id":52861,"date":"2025-02-06T07:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T07:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-shines-at-uae-swat-challenge-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T10:31:08","slug":"rwanda-shines-at-uae-swat-challenge-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-shines-at-uae-swat-challenge-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"RNP shines at UAE SWAT challenge 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

RNP SWAT Team One broke their own record time as they emerged the overall best in ‘Obstacle Event’ at the UAE Special Weapon and Tactics (SWAT) Challenge, which concluded on Wednesday, February 5, in Dubai.<\/p>\n

The Rwanda elite Police team won in record time 03:46.2, to take gold, beating other 102 teams from over 70 countries that participated in the five-day Challenge. They smashed their 03:54 record, which they set in the fifth edition, last year. <\/p>\n

China Police Team B came second to win silver while China Police Team C won bronze. RNP SWAT Team 2 came 12th in Obstacle Course, which was the last event of the sixth edition. Overall, RNP SWAT Team One came in the 10th position while SWAT Team Two was 18th.<\/p>\n

The five-day Challenge saw 103 team from across the globe, competition in five high demanding challenges. They include Assault Event, Tactical Event, Officer Rescue, Tower Event and Obstacle Course.<\/p>\n

This was Rwanda National Police’s fourth participation in the global SWAT Challenge.<\/p>\n

It is designed to enhance global law enforcement practices, strengthen cooperation and sharing of best practices among SWAT teams worldwide while highlighting mental sharpness and physical endurance in diverse tactical scenarios.<\/p>\n

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The Rwanda National Police Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams performed exceptionally well in the global police competition, the UAE SWAT Challenge 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000081193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000081193,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-11.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-11.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-11.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-11.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-11.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-11.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000081193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52861"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52861"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}