Editing AVGP (section)

==Operators==
[[File:AVGP operators.png|thumb|Map of AVGP operators in blue]]
[[File:Calendar 2016 - 01 (21301530260).jpg|thumb|Turretless Cougar serving with the Uruguayan contingent of [[MONUSCO]], in [[Nord-Kivu]], December 2013.]]

===Historical operators===
* {{flag|Canada}} (Canadian Army) – AVGPs were used by Regular and Reserve units, the Cougar in armoured regiments and the Grizzly in mechanized infantry battalions.
** The [[Edmonton Police Service]] received one disarmed Grizzly in 2007. They replaced it in 2020 with a Cambli BlackWolf Armored Vehicle.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Police spend half a million dollars to replace 42-year-old armoured vehicle |date=27 August 2020 |publisher=CTV News |author=Edmonton Staff |url=https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/police-spend-half-a-million-dollars-to-replace-42-year-old-armoured-vehicle-1.5082358}}</ref> 
** The New Glasgow Regional Police received one disarmed Grizzly in 2013, but ended use around 2017 with plans to donate it to another Police Service.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/do-new-glasgow-cops-really-need-cougars-1.1182919 |title=Do New Glasgow cops really need Cougars? |date=5 March 2013 |access-date=2019-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706063158/http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/do-new-glasgow-cops-really-need-cougars-1.1182919 |archive-date=2017-07-06 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/new-glasgow-police-cougar-light-armoured-vehicle-gift-halifax-1.4138028 |first = Preston |last = Mulligan |title=Nova Scotia town trying to regift light armoured vehicle it doesn't use |date = 30 May 2017 |publisher = CBC News |access-date=2019-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180721230017/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/new-glasgow-police-cougar-light-armoured-vehicle-gift-halifax-1.4138028 |archive-date=2018-07-21 |url-status=live }}</ref> 
** The [[Windsor Police Service]] received one disarmed Cougar in 2013 and replaced it in 2020 with a [[Terradyne Armored Vehicles Gurkha]].<ref name="Huff"/><ref>{{Cite news |first=Melanie |last=Borelli |title=Windsor police replacing armoured vehicle with new Multi-Purpose Vehicle |publisher=CTV News |date=22 October 2020 |url=https://windsor.ctvnews.ca/windsor-police-replacing-armoured-vehicle-with-new-multi-purpose-vehicle-1.5156419}}</ref> 
* {{flag|Serbia}} – at least one Canadian Grizzly serving in the former Yugoslavia was captured by Serbian forces and had been photographed in the service of ''Jedinica za Specijalne Operacije'' (JSO, Unit for Special Operations) or ''Crvene Beretke'' (Red Berets), a unit of the Serbian police.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Armoured Vehicle, General Purpose (AVGP) |url=https://www.canadiansoldiers.com/vehicles/avgp/avgp.htm |website=canadiansoldiers.com |access-date=2017-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728135538/http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/vehicles/avgp/avgp.htm |archive-date=2017-07-28 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Current operators===
* {{flag|Canada}} – ([[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]]) – as the Tav 2 variant (Cougars modified for [[Emergency Response Team (RCMP)|ERT]] tasks),<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bc.ctvnews.ca/mounties-unveil-crime-fighting-tank-1.495082 |title=Mounties unveil crime fighting 'tank' |date=24 March 2010 |access-date=2019-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707082045/http://bc.ctvnews.ca/mounties-unveil-crime-fighting-tank-1.495082 |archive-date=2017-07-07 |url-status=live }}</ref> these were given for free by the Canadian Army to the RCMP in British Columbia in March 2010.<ref name="Huff">{{Cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/08/28/windsor-police-cougar-military-vehicle_n_5726492.html |title=Check Out Canadian Cops' New Toy |date=28 August 2014 |access-date=2019-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404073525/https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/08/28/windsor-police-cougar-military-vehicle_n_5726492.html |archive-date=2019-04-04 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Canadian police forces bulking up with armoured vehicles |first=Douglas |last=Quan |date=21 August 2014 |website=Canada.com |publisher=Postmedia Network |url=https://o.canada.com/news/national/canadian-police-forces-bulking-up-with-armoured-vehicles/comment-page-1 |access-date=2019-03-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226002841/http://o.canada.com/news/national/canadian-police-forces-bulking-up-with-armoured-vehicles/comment-page-1 |archive-date=2017-12-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* {{flag|Uruguay}} – 44 refurbished Cougars with turrets removed.<ref name="casr.ca"/> 98 Grizzlys and 5 Huskys given directly from the AMIS/UNAMID mission in Sudan.

===Others===
* [[African Union]] ([[African Union Mission in Sudan|AMIS mission]]) – 100 (&minus;1 lost in combat) Grizzlys, 5 Huskys<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.casr.ca/bg-army-armour-avgp-darfur.htm |title=AVGPs in Africa — Grizzlys and Huskys for Darfur |publisher=[[Canadian American Strategic Review]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091031044208/http://www.casr.ca/bg-army-armour-avgp-darfur.htm |archive-date=2009-10-31 }}</ref>