Viking Squad
The Special Unit of the National Police Commissioner (Icelandic: Sérsveit ríkislögreglustjóra), more commonly referred to as the Viking Squad (Icelandic: Víkingasveitin), is the police tactical unit of the Icelandic Police.
| Special Unit of the National Police Commissioner | |
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| Sérsveit ríkislögreglustjóra (Icelandic) | |
| Active | 19 October 1982 - present |
| Country | Iceland |
| Agency | Icelandic Police |
| Type | Police tactical unit |
| Role | |
| Motto | "Með lögum skal land byggja" "The land shall be built by laws" |
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| Structure | |
| Operators | 46 |
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The unit is in many ways modeled on the Delta tactical unit of the Norwegian Police Service with which it conducts many exercises, both in Norway and Iceland. As of 2021, the unit has 46 police officers.
The National Police Commissioner published that the squad would be fully staffed at 55 police officers by 2010. The unit has never had more than 46 officers. Iceland has no standard military, and thus some functions usually performed by military forces in other nations are performed in Iceland by units such as the Viking Squad.