Politiets Aktionsstyrke

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Special Intervention Unit
Politiets Aktionsstyrke (Danish)
Patch worn by Politiets Aktionsstyrke
Active	1973 - present[1]
Country	Denmark
Agency	National Police
Type	Police tactical unit
Role	Counter-terrorism Law enforcement
Abbreviation	AKS
Structure
Operators	100

The Politiets Aktionsstyrke (AKS, English: Special Intervention Unit) is the police tactical unit of the Danish National Police. 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-trains with the army and navy elite-units Jægerkorpset and Frømandskorpset.^[2]

Its activities are under the jurisdiction of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) while the Danish Ministry of Justice supervises the AKS.^[2]