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| Military of Iceland; Even thought there isn't one.. | |
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| Topic Started: Oct 5 2008, 04:45 PM (44 Views) | |
| Montenegro | Oct 5 2008, 04:45 PM Post #1 |
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Police 700 Police 60 Special Operations Unit of the National Commissioner Radar Agency 80 Men Crisis Response Unit 100 Crisis Response Units Coast Guard 3 Ægir-class Offshore Patrol Vessels. |
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| Montenegro | Oct 5 2008, 04:55 PM Post #2 |
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Iceland National Police The Icelandic National Police (Icelandic: Ríkislögreglan) is responsible for Law enforcement on all Icelandic territories except at sea where the Icelandic Coast Guard enforces the law. The two services assist each other as needed. The Icelandic Police is under the surpreme command of the Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastical affairs and the National Commissioner (Ríkislögreglustjórinn) administers the police under authorization of the Minister. The National Commissioner, headquartered in Reykjavík, maintains inquisitorial divisions, such as the National Security Unit, as well as the tactical operations unit Víkingasveitin nominally deployed in the Capital area, Suðurnes and Akureyri. The police is further divided into 15 regions of various sizes and responsibilities. The regions follow the old county boundaries or sýslumörk. Akranes Akureyri Blönduós Borgarfjörður Eskifjörður Húsavík Hvolsvöllur Höfuðborgarsvæðið - Capital area police forces Vestfirðir Sauðarárkrókur Selfoss Seyðisfjörður Snæfellsnes Suðurnes - Responsible for Keflavík International Airport Vestmannaeyjar Uniforms The National Commissioner Weaponry Transportation |
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| Montenegro | Oct 5 2008, 04:59 PM Post #3 |
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The Iceland Intelligence Service At the orders of the prime minister Hermann Jónasson in 1939 the State Police and the Útlendingaeftirlitið (Foreigner monitoring agency) founded a Security department or eftirgrennslanadeild. This service was founded primarily to monitor Nazi German scientists in Iceland as well as communists. After World War II this service had the embassies of communist countries under surveillance and compiled lists of communist sympathizers and potential saboteurs or terrorists. It was not until 2006 that this service came into light, after having been known to only a handful of men for more than 60 years, when historians were granted limited access to secret documents. Currently the National Commissioners operates a greiningardeild which goes by the name Icelandic Intelligence Service (IIS). |
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| Montenegro | Oct 5 2008, 05:06 PM Post #4 |
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Icelandic Crisis Response Unit The Icelandic Crisis Response Unit (ICRU) or Íslenska Friðargæslan, is an 100-person expeditionary military unit, with a civilian element, operated by the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is primarily designated for peacekeeping operations and was established in the 1990s to improve the status of Iceland within NATO as it lacked sufficient armed forces to support NATO peacekeeping operations. The ICRU has been deployed to the former territories of Yugoslavia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. It has a civilian observer mission in Sri Lanka in co-operation with Norway and has deployed civilian mine removal personnel to Lebanon. Iceland sent its first peacekeepers in 1950, when two Icelandic policemen were sent to Palestine as a part of an UN peacekeeping operation. Since then Icelandic specialists have taken part in various peacekeeping operations, mostly within the UN, but also within NATO, since the establishment of the ICRU. Military missions: [*]Afghanistan within ISAF [*]Iraq within NTM-1 (and the Coast Guard within Dancon/Irak) [*]Serbia/ Kosovo within KFOR Civilian missions: [*]Bosnia and Herzegovina within EUPM [*]Lebanon within MACC-SL [*]Sri Lanka within SLMM Icelandic Crisis Response Unit Edited by Montenegro, Oct 5 2008, 05:14 PM.
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| Montenegro | Oct 5 2008, 05:12 PM Post #5 |
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Iceland Air Defence System The Iceland Air Defence System or Íslenska Loftvarnarkerfið was founded in 1987. It operates four radar complexes, a software and support facility as well as a command and report centre. As of 2008 it does not independently possess any offensive capabilities, as Iceland's only air defence weaponry is operated by the Coast Guard, but is primarily used to monitor air traffic and direct allied interceptors based out of country. It has become the main element of the newly created Icelandic Defence Agency (Varnarmálastofnun Íslands) founded in 2008. |
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| Montenegro | Oct 5 2008, 05:26 PM Post #6 |
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Icelandic Coast Guard The Icelandic Coast Guard is the armed service responsible for Iceland's coastal defense and maritime search and rescue. Origins of the Icelandic Coast Guard (Landhelgisgæsla Íslands or Landhelgisgæslan) can be traced to 1859, when the corvette Ørnen started patrolling Icelandic waters. And in 1906 the first purposely built guard-ship Islands Falk came to Iceland. Iceland's own defense of its territorial waters began around 1920 and the Icelandic Coast Guard was formally founded on July 1, 1926. The first cannon was put on the trawler Þór in 1924 and on June 23, 1926 the first ship built for the Coast Guard, named Óðinn, arrived in Iceland. Three years later, on the 14 July 1929 the coastal defence ship Ægir was added to the Coast Guard fleet. The Icelandic Coast Guard played its largest role during the Cod Wars between 1972 and 1975, when the Coast Guard ships would cut the trawl wires of British and West German trawlers, while being rammed by the Royal Navy, in order to protect sealife from overfishing. Eventually, the British government agreed to recognize the expanded Fisheries zone, after the Icelandic government threatened to evict the U.S. forces (known as the Iceland Defense Force) from Keflavík Naval base and quit NATO. Operations The Fleet Aeronautical Division Ships and Aircrafts Weaponry Ranks Future Prospects |
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