If you walk past a bank branch in Pomerode early Friday (8) and see a lot of police traffic and even gunshots, don’t be alarmed. The Prime Minister (Military Police) announced this Thursday (7) that he will carry out a simulated bank robbery in the municipality.

Military police simulate a bank robbery in Pomerode – Photo: Blumenau Military Police/North Dakota

The action, which is scheduled for Friday morning, is part of the Comprehensive Defense Course taking place this week in Blumenau. The course aims to train military police officers to act in violent and very important crimes against financial institutions.

As the prime minister himself said, the simulation will include many vehicles, in addition to the military police in uniform and in civilian clothes. Everyone will be armed and with identification marks on T-shirts saying that this is a simulation.

The police also emphasize that, as in a real event, gunshots and explosions of explosives will sound in the simulation. Despite the publication of the training campaign, the prime minister did not say which branch of the bank would be and at what time the simulation should take place.