 The unit was formed on 1 July 2008 as Rural Border Patrol Unit.It was first based at A.P Senior Staff College, Emali and the idea of a border patrol unit was brought up by the then Senior Deputy Commandant (I) of A.P(SAIG)/(Egypt 2) Mr Alhaji Omar Shurie who is a senior field craft and tactics/jungle warfare instructor and was to be known as Border Patrol Unit.But due limited facilities and equipment it was not fully operational by then.