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Director of Justice and President of the Police and Justice directors, claimed that Switzerland had too many civilian specialist units serving under various cantons which would not warrant TIGRIS's existence. Additionally, the police forces in various cantons have responsibility
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commander Kurt Blöchlinger insisted that the feedback from various police cantons was positive regarding TIGRIS's deployment to assist them. In addition, he said that he had told police officials about TIGRIS's existence in 2005, which contradicted their claims that they never knew about TIGRIS.
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had ordered an investigation into whether the covert creation of TIGRIS was legal and whether the agency is needed for Swiss law enforcement. She concluded that TIGRIS is not needed when she had announced the investigation.
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equipment and weapons as well as computerised training facilities. Its known budget is a total of 2.7 million
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782:"EJPD-Bericht stellt Einsatzgruppe Tigris gutes Zeugnis aus"
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950:"Nouvelle enquête sur le chantage exercé sur Alain Berset"
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