Elite World Cops

Season 1 episode list

The first episode, JUNGLAS, features Ryan joining a Colombian special police unit trained for jungle operations. He participates in locating and destroying a cocaine drug lab, supervising civilians destroying coca plantations, and providing them protection. In BOPE, Ryan works with Rio de Janeiro's special weapons and tactics team, visiting favelas where police attempt to reclaim streets from drug dealers and gangs. The SUNKAR episode involves the Kazakh police special unit, with training in Close Quarters Battle and use of Soviet hardware such as the BTR-80 APC and RPGs; the operation stops heroin smugglers and arrests a group harvesting a cannabis plantation.

BOA covers Poland's Bureau of counter-terrorist operations, which handles tasks beyond normal police capability and post-9/11 counter-terrorism; training includes fast roping, explosive entry, and helicopter extraction, and Ryan joins a real operation to storm a house and detain an arms dealer. In MAGAV, Ryan joins the Israeli Border Police's Yamas unit, which operates in Palestinian cities and territories tracking and arresting terrorists. The final episode, GOPES, has Ryan with Mexico's Special Operations Group hunting gangs and drug labs, and taking part in a large training exercise involving a Boeing 727-200 in a hostage scenario.