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About
u"The Police Rapid Response Unit (Finnish: Poliisin valmiusyksikk\xf6, Swedish: Beredskapsheten) is a special operations and counter-terrorism unit of the Finnish police. It is commonly known as the Bear Group (Finnish: Karhu-ryhm\xe4, Swedish: Beredskapsenheten, Swedish/Finnish mixed:Karhu-gruppen) and is also referred to as the Helsinki Police Special Operations Unit (Finnish: Helsingin poliisilaitoksen erityistoimintayksikk\xf6). Though it is attached to the Helsinki regional service, and is not considered one of Finland's two national police branches, it is available for use all around Finland.
The Bear Group was formed after the Munich massacre in 1972 to provide security for the OSCE Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe that was held in Helsinki in 1975. According to law all counter-terrorist operations belong to the Police or the Finnish Border Guard \u2013 with Finnish Defence Forces not involved in CT during peace time.
The Bear Group includes, in addition to leadership and training groups, direct action, technical, canine, and explosive disposal groups. It can also be reinforced with a negotiation group for hostage situations.
The Bear Group operates under the authority of the Finnish Ministry of the Interior and is headquartered in Helsinki. Its members are all volunteers and alternate between normal police work and special armed duties. The group had a strength of about 90 police officers in 2008.
The team's weaponry consists almost entirely of standard Finnish police weapons. It uses the H&K MP5 as its primary submachinegun along with the H&K UMP, Sig 552 as assault rifles and the Remington 870 as shotgun. The only significant difference is the use of H&K USP as personal pistol. The sniper rifles used by the group are Sako TRG -series of rifles TRG-21 and TRG-42."
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Founded
Sep 16, 2015
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