Delta (Norwegian police unit)

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Not to be confused with Delta Force or Delta Police Department.
Beredskapstroppen
Special Team Six)
2011 Norway attacks

Beredskapstroppen (English: Emergency Unit),

hostage situations. It is organizationally part of Oslo Police District, but is responsible for the whole country, including oil installations in the North Sea.[4]

The unit has participated in several incidents including the

Diemaco C8
rifles. Members spend half their time training and preparing for missions and the remaining participating in ordinary law enforcement work in Oslo.

History

Operations

According to Delta's web site, they conduct in average almost one armed operation every day. In 2004, for instance, they conducted 422 armed missions and only fired their

weapons
twice.

One of Delta's most dramatic missions was the

police officers were taken hostages by two criminals. In the end of the two-day drama, Delta executed a rescue operation rescuing all of the hostages and killing one hostage taker and arresting the other. In the aftermath of the fatal NOKAS robbery
, Delta arrested many suspects involved with the robbery. Since October 2006, Delta has focused their operations against gang crime in the capital of Oslo and arrested many criminals and seized many weapons used by the gangs.

2011 Oslo / Utøya attacks

Delta were first responders at Utøya and subsequently apprehended Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks in Oslo and Utøya on 22 July 2011.[2]

Deployment in Special Team Six

Members of the unit have been deployed in

Special Team Six (ST6), a multinational United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) police tactical unit, many times. One of the unit's most important tasks was to arrest war criminals. According to one of the Delta operators, during a rescue mission, grenades and bullets flew over their heads while ST6 rescued 50-60 persons from furious Albanians. This incident was a rescue of United Nations personnel trapped in a building. ST6 was commanded by a Norwegian operator from Delta during this mission and during the period January–July 2004. Beredskapstroppen has had personnel deployed in ST6 ever since its foundation.[5]

Equipment

Weapons
Vehicles

The unit frequently drove unmarked

engines with a total of 675 HP. For air transport Delta mainly make use of military Bell 412 SP from the Royal Norwegian Air Force. In 2020 Delta adopted new unmarked Volvo XC90's
for formal protection details.

Other

The operators use a special type of

National Gendarmerie Intervention Group also reportedly use this visor. The unit uses a gas mask with a closed system (rebreather
). They use advanced equipment to determine the type of chemicals they are up against. Their uniforms differ from those normally worn by the men and women of the Norwegian Police Service; instead of the normal black pants and blue shirts they wear black jumpsuits.

References

  1. ^ Inderhaug, Erik (2020-11-25). "Han er Beredskapstroppens nye sjef" [He is Beredskapstroppen's new commander]. Politiforum (in Norwegian). Oslo. Retrieved 2022-08-18.
  2. ^ a b "Response time 'unforgivable'" (PDF). Citrus County Chronicle. Vol. 116, no. 354. Associated Press. 27 July 2011. p. A14. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  3. ISBN 9623616023
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  4. ^ "Innsatspersonell til Politiets Beredskapstropp (særskilt søknadsprosess)". Archived from the original on October 13, 2019.
  5. ^ "Norsk politi avslører Team Six". 12 January 2006.
  6. ^ "Norwegian Police Adopt SIG SAUER P320 X-Series as Service Pistol | Sig Sauer". www.sigsauer.com. Archived from the original on 2019-04-06.
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