Saturn (detachment)

OSN Saturn (ОСН Сатурн УФСИН России по г. Москве; Otdel Spetsialnogo Naznacheniya Saturn) is the Moscow department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) special purpose unit (police tactical unit). Saturn was formed in April 1992 as a part of the Moscow Department of Punishment Execution (UIN) under the Ministry of the Interior. In 2006, the UIN system (including all regional departments and special purpose units) was renamed the Federal Penitentiary Service, and was moved from the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Interior to the Russian Ministry of Justice. The Saturn unit is also often called "Jail Spetsnaz".

Function

Current duties:

• Anti-prison riot actions in detention facilities
• Control and protect criminals while carrying out legal procedures
• Counterterrorism actions in detention facilities
• Hostage rescue in detention facilities
• Personal security for Ministry of Justice and court officials
• Preventing crimes in Moscow detention facilities
• Providing security detention facilities at risk of attack
• Psychological operations to reduce violence in detention
• Search and arrest of escaped criminals
• Securing special operations
• Support military operations

Operations

The Saturn unit participated in the First Chechen War, including the storming of Grozny in December 1994 to January 1995, and in the Second Chechen War.

In summer 2000, Saturn officers protected PACE delegates during their visit to the Chechen Republic.

Saturn participated in the hostage rescue operation in Kapotnya investigative isolation ward No. 9 in September 2006.

It provided protection and convoy support during both Mikhail Khodorkovsky cases.

Saturns provide illegals program agent protection in Moscow.

Training

• Airborne training
• Anti-prison riot
• Cold-weather warfare
• Counterterrorism
• Crowd control
• CQB/CQC
• Defusing and disposal of bombs
• Desert warfare
• Executive protection
• Fast-roping
• Marksmanship
• Mountain warfare
• Hand-to-hand combat and knife fighting
• Hostage rescue
• NBCR on operations in contaminated environments
• Psychological warfare
• Rappelling
• Reconnaissance
• Riot control
• Small unit tactics
• Tactical emergency medical
• Tracking
• Weapons handling
• Urban warfare

Equipment

Vehicles

• KAMAZ 43269 Vistrel
• Ford E-series armored prisoners van
• Armored Volkswagen T5 Transporter TDI
• KAMAZ-43114
• Toyota Land Cruiser 100
• Nissan Patrol GR (Y60)
• VAZ-2131 Niva
• GAZ-2217 Barguzin passenger van

Weapons

• Glock 17
• Glock 19
• Makarov pistol PMM
• GSh-18
• CZ 75
• AEK-919K “Kashtan”
• 9 mm submachine gun PP-91 KEDR
• Carbine assault rifle 9A-91
• 9mm submachine gun PP-19 Bizon
• Submachine gun PP-19-01 Vityaz SN
• KS-23M Drozd
• Assault rifle AEK-971 with GP-25
• RPG-7
• AGS-30
• 6G-30
• Assault rifle AN-94 Abakan
• Yarygin pistol MP-443 Grach
• AK-74M
• AK-103
• RPK-74
• OSV-96
• SVD
• SVU

See also

• List of special police units

External links

• Official website
• Rappelling training photos
• Armored vehicle and weapons photos
• Saturn cars and armored vehicles photos
• Saturn KAMAZ-43269 Vistrel walkaround