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The Swedish Police Authority (Swedish: Polismyndigheten) is the national police force (Polisen) of Sweden.The first modern police force in Sweden was established in the mid-19th century, and the police remained in effect under local government control up until 1965, when it was nationalized and became increasingly centralized, [3] to finally organize under one authority January 1, 2015.
Reinforced Regional Task Force (Swedish: Förstärkt Regional Insatsstyrka), [1] prior to 2015 officially known as Piketen (or Piketenheten) [note 1] is a regional special operations asset of the Swedish Police Authority, similar to SWAT type units in the United States.
National Task Force operators during the 2017 Stockholm truck attack.. The National Task Force (Swedish: Nationella insatsstyrkan, NI), formerly known as the National Task Force of the Swedish Civilian Police (Swedish: Ordningspolisens nationella insatsstyrka), is a police tactical unit within the National Operations Department of the Swedish Police Authority.
In the United States, police tactical units are known by the generic term Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team (other countries have adopted this term). [2] In Australia, the term police tactical group is used for police tactical units. [3] The European Union uses the term special intervention unit for national counter terrorist police ...
In the Swedish Army, dragoons comprise the Military Police and Military Police Rangers. They also form the 13th Battalion of the Life Guards , which is a military police unit. The 13th (Dragoons) Battalion have roots that go back as far as 1523, making it one of the world's oldest military units still in service.
Swedish police detained 19 pro-Palestinian activists who barricaded themselves in the country's main technical education and research university on Friday. After two hours, police carried out the ...
The connection between the military police units and the Life Guards is similar to the structure in the Swedish Police Service; the Life Guard is responsible for service, coordination and development of the military police, and the local unit is responsible to investigate and keep law and order at the camp.
The Swedish security police arrested Tuesday two people suspected of gross unauthorized possession of secret information following an early morning police raid where several houses were searched ...