The Special Security Forces have been accused of
human rights abuses while trying to suppress pro-democratic activity in Bahrain. The SSFC has been at the frontline of the Bahrain government's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters during the
2011 Bahraini uprising in the
Arab Spring. In November 2007, Bahrain signed a cooperation agreement with
France under which French police officers working in the
Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité have provided training to Bahrain's SSFC. A SSFC company was deployed to
Afghanistan to provide base security at the
United States's
Camp Leatherneck. ==References==