SWAPOL Koevoet Camo Jacket

Original Border War Era South West African Police Koevoet Pattern Camo Jacket.

• Thruster Group 1982 Tag.
• Size Large.
• 24” Chest.
• 33” Length.
• Serged seams on inside, not flat-felled seams like standard SAP jacket. 
• Koevoet, meaning crowbar, also known as Operation K or SWAPOL-COIN) was the counterinsurgency branch of the South West African Police (SWAPOL). Its formations included white South African police officers, usually seconded from the South African Security Branch or Special Task Force, and black volunteers from Ovamboland. Koevoet was patterned after the Selous Scouts, a multiracial Rhodesian military unit which specialised in counter-insurgency operations. Its title was an allusion to the metaphor of "prying" insurgents from the civilian population.