Beredskapstroppen
| Beredskapstroppen | |
|---|---|
Shoulder patch
|
|
| Active | 1976 – present |
| Country |
 Norway
|
| Branch |
 Norwegian Police Service
|
| Type | Police Tactical Unit |
| Role |
Counter-terrorism Law Enforcement |
| Size | Unknown |
| Nickname(s) | Delta, BT |
| Engagements |
Torp hostage crisis Kosovo War (Through Special Team Six) 2011 Norway attacks |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander |
Anders Snortheimsmoen |
The Emergency Response Unit (Norwegian: Beredskapstroppen), call sign Delta, is the Police Tactical Unit of the Norwegian Police Service (Norwegian: Politi- og lensmannsetaten). Its members are trained to perform dangerous operations such as high-risk arrests and hostage situations. It is organizationally part of Oslo Police District, but is responsible for the whole country, including oil installations in the North Sea.
The unit has among other participated in the Torp hostage crisis at Sandefjord Airport, Torp on 29 September 1994, the aftermath of the NOKAS robbery and the 2011 Norway attacks. The members have a wider variety of weapons than the ordinary police force, including SIG Sauer P226 pistols and Diemaco C8 rifles. Members spend half their time training and preparing for missions and the remaining participating in ordinary law enforcement work in Oslo. For training in close quarters combat they often use a specially built city inside Rena Military Camp close to Rena which originally was built for training the Telemark Battalion and military special forces.
According to Emergency Response Unit'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 the Emergency Response Unit's most dramatic missions was the Torp hostage crisis, where an elderly couple and two police officers were taken hostages by two criminals. In the end of the two-day drama, the Emergency Response Unit 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, the Emergency Response Unit 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.
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