Everything about Politiets Aktionsstyrke totally explained
Politiets Aktionsstyrke (
AKS) is the special forces unit of the
Danish police.
AKS is a national
SWAT unit. It is meant to handle extraordinarily difficult or life-threatening criminal situations, such as
terrorism,
hostage situations, and
kidnapping. It also deals with emergency rescue situations that would be too dangerous for others to handle. The AKS holds responsibility for all anti-terror and counter-terrorism missions in Denmark. It is known that AKS cross-train with the
army and
navy elite-units
Jaegerkorpset and
Frømandskorpset.
AKS led the operation of clearing and eviction the
anarchist and
leftist groups from
Ungdomshuset on
March 1 2007
Other duties include
- Counter sniper operation.
- Forced entrance operations.
- Apprehension of armed suspects.
- Apprehension of barricaded suspects.
- Force protection during deployment.
History
The units operational functions are closely guarded secrets, so not much is known. What has been published is that's was created just after the Munich Summer Olympic incident in
1972.
In
1998 the unit was re-organized to include a fixed force of roughly 100 police officers, before that's "borrowed" officers from regular units on an
as needed basis.
The Unit is supposed to be transferred to the responsibility of the
Danish Security Intelligence Service
Leder
AKS is leaded by
Rigspolitiet by soon it'll be under
PET.
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