Beredskapstroppen, nicknamed Delta, is a specialized police unit situated in Oslo, Norway. It is the main counter-terrorist force in Norway, trained to perform dangerous operations such as high-risk arrests and hostage situations. The team members are recruited from the ordinary police force.
Located in Oslo, the force has responsibility for the whole country, including oil installations in the North Sea. Beredskapstroppen took part in the dramatic hostage situation at Sandefjord Airport on September 29, 1994. Delta is similar to FBI Hostage Rescue Team in the United States. Unlike the rest of Norwegian Police, they are routinely armed, weapons including Glock 17 pistols and MP5 submachine guns. Beredskapstroppen spend 50 % of their time training and preparing for missions, and the rest of the time they normally work like ordinary law enforcement in Oslo. They wear slightly different uniforms, instead of the normal black pants and blue shirts they wear black jumpsuits and often, but not always, drive an unmarked Chevrolet Suburban. These Suburbans are very easy to spot because of a large firetruck ladder on the roof. 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 other military special forces. Since October 2006, Beredskapstroppen has been more in the media because of the government's war on gang crime in Oslo.
