Marine reacts to Finnish Special Intervention Unit - "Bear Squad" (Poliisin Valmiusyksikkö Karhu)
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Valmiusyksikkö karhu is really secretive finnish police counter terrorist unit and it’s kind of finnish version of mixed swat and fbi hostage unit. Main purpouse is counter terrorism. And finnish police has own swat groups that are not as much trained as the karhu.
Part of the gear mismatch that's noticed at 3:24 is probably due to the secretiveness. Hard to find current footage of note, so editors end up having to dig into older archive footage that's been cleared for release.
@@mrminiguns Pretty sure that clip you mentioned was from 2010, the first clip with the high cut helmets was definetly from just a few years ago. Definetly all the clips where they have those old ceramic helmets and all black suits are from 2010, they definetly have high cut helmets now.
Also, that camoflauge is a pretty weird choice for that helicopter clip. You'd think they use M05 woodland today
They work a lot more on "regular" police missions than on counter terrorism. There aren't that many counter terrorism operations in Finland which need feet on the ground (Karhu doesn't do investigations, police or supo does) compared to that that the karhu has on average 100 missions/year. Karhu is almost always deployed if there's an armed suspect even if the situation isn't that threatening.
On weapons, the police uses your average H&K variety of submachineguns and CZ scorpion evo. The sniper rifle is SAKO TRG (a Finnish product). Also they use H&K G36K and such.
About the name, the group's nickname is karhukopla which translates to Beagle boys from Donald duck. The karhu unit is based on Helsinki region and is heliborne if response is needed somewhere far out. Border guard or army choppers are used (in Finland there is a lot of cooperation done between different authorities). There are regional units as well but the Karhu group is perhaps equivalent of FBI or some other more specialiced unit in the US.
It might be relevant for non-finns to understand the peoples view on Police. Finns have a saying: Poliisi on ystävä - police is your friend. Few Finns would ever lie to a police officer - that mindset just doesn't exist, Policeman say - we do.. Civilians are honest and work with the police, the general public rarely have anything bad to say about the police. The relationship between police and civilians is at a beautiful balance, if I may say so myself.
@Ivar Walleij Hard crime with guns has really gone up in sweden in recent years, hasn't it? Here in Finland we talk about "the sweden phenomenon", which we are afraid will land here too, eventually.
Yeah, finns generally like and trust police, except for the criminals who always feel that they got a rough deal. :D
About using guns you must know that every time a police is firing it's weapon in Finland another police district investigate whether the use of arms was a legal or excessive use of force.
@@markkujii4247 And if I may add that even tho the gunshots are investigated they are almost every time justified.
@@marsjaatelo5697 It probably tells quite a lot about finnish gun crime that almost every time a police officer discharges their weapon it's a guaranteed news story.
Most of the footage is well over a decade old and 99.9% of it is in training (which why the equipment don't match and are old and bulky).
They don't really release cam footage or footage at all of the Karhu ryhmä. They sometimes do for Vati (our Swat, which every department has).
It's illegal to release anything about karhu.
@@hennapeltonen3137 Yeah. It´s peculiar as in some countries this type of secrecy would be seen as suspicious. In Finland we have a trust based society which includes the police. We trust they are not going to work to undermine our democracy, so they are given the level of secrecy they need. In other countries that trust is just not there, even if they need the same secrecy.
Runescape music is always welcome!
Glad you are a RS fan lol
Christ
runescape rules 😎😎😎🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍
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dude osrs is so fun
For their own safety etc, they are not allowed to tell anyone, that they are part of the Bear squad. Not even to family members.
Thats crazy
tf you talking about fam
Facts 🔥
I am pretty sure, not quite 100% though, that one can tell to a wife/husband/life partner. Atleast I understood from the book I read: Karhuryhmä by Harri Gustafsberg & Heidi Holmavuo
Bullshit
They have to be ship trained because of the large amount of international ferries that travel to and from Finland.
Very cool
Cause Finland is basically a island, when you look it from Germany, Poland etc. It can be reached from Sweden, (no border check) Norway, i think there is some checking, cause Norway isn't in European Union. and Russian border with regular border patrol units with dogs, and they have a cameras with motion sensors each side of border. there is a ferry from Riga, Tallinn, Stockholm, Rostock in germany. And couple of world largest cruise ship came from Finland. the thing, that reject their height were,a suspension bridge in Denmark its 3rd longest suspension bridge in the world. In order that they were successfully pass under the bridge, they need a calculate tide level, and going almost full speed so the ship were deep in water, that was requirement. There was 1m (3,2 FT) leftover space between bridge and ship.
@@tomi_9212 Norway is part of the schengen area so you don't need to stop at the border if you don't have sometime to declare.
@Papa Stalin Åland has no military bases and why would sweden have any military inside finnish borders. Not to mention the whole island is demilitarized and can't have any fortifications build on it that weren't there already.
@@tomi_9212 yeah i remember hearing that when I was working at Meyer, they had to fill all the ballast and heeling tanks, calculate tides and go full speed to just about make it.
Originally Bear Squad was trained by German GSG-9, so the 'DNA' of the unit and some basic techniques are inherited from there. And yes, the members of the unit do normal police work as well as special training and operations, so the cop that checks your license in capital area could be Bear Squad trained. The rifle is Sig SG-552. Rajavartiolaitos = Border Guard. Chopper was Bell 412, which is civilian version of Huey.
That is also main reason why they chose USP-9 as their sidearm. Kind of odd choice IMHO.
Haha thanks!
@@jpenna1976 If im not totally wrong, though police and FDF changed their pistols to new one?
@@gruntscrewdriver3261 FDF has been using Glock 17 since 2008. Police switched from Glock 17/19 to Walther P99Q (bad idea) few years ago. I think Karhu is still using HK UPS9's. Not quite sure... If they can choose what they want, I don't think they would choose Walther. I have heard that Police is again looking for a new pistol.
the green sharpshooter rifle is homegrown Sako TRG-22 and TRG-42... the military uses the TRG-42 8,6 TKIV 2000
When I was in the finnish defence forces in the corpral training me and few other corpral students got a chance to be a target man for the Karhu and the santahamina military rediness unit. It was incredible experience we vere fighting in this closed school that still had all the furniture and stuff all laying in there. We used soap rounds. Their mission was just to hunt us down in the school and me and my buddys could do whatever we came up with.I got a flank on the karhu in a hallway I took a few shots with my clock and went back to cover. And really studibly I peeked the same corner again and the Karhu squad has in that 2second cover taking time advanced allmost 10meters towrds me on a perfect stack and got propably 20shots to my face when I peeked. Those guys dont fuck around.
Just found your channel today. It is surprisingly fascinating and I gotta love your enthusiasm and it is certainly interesting to see people from other countries reacting to finnish army -related topics.👍
I saw these guys when i was doing my service. I was in line for eat between these dude and they were Huge! a rumor says that anyone who were after them in the queue died in hunger.
NBA of police force. regular police are also bigger than average citizen.
Rifle is SAKO TRG-21 and SAKO TRG-42.....308WIN and 338Lapua Mag.
Trg-22 on .308 ja Trg-42 .338 Lapuamagnum. Faktat haltuun😉
mistä sää edes tiedät nää?
Only one I know that has been in Karhu unit:
Harri Gustafsberg, M. A. - iPREP Developer and Trainer
Mr. Gustasfberg has worked as a law enforcement officer since 1990. He is a veteran police officer for 25 years. His last post was chief inspector at the Police University College of Finland, 2014. He served as a member of the Finnish National Special Intervention Unit called KARHU for 22 years. During his years of service, Mr. Gustasfberg worked as a member of the SIU, then as an expert use of force instructor, operational commander, and K9 Instructor.
He has also done doctoral thesis about mental resilience. Thesis is found by the name “DO PEOPLE GET SHOT BECAUSE SOME COPS PANIC?” : Enhancement of individual resilience through a police resilience and efficiency training program
Looks like a Sako TRG.
Sako is finnish company
Yeah, the sniper probably is Sako TRG as it is Finnish design by Sako (owned by Beretta of Italy), used by police, military and special forces around the world, and highly praised by other countries for its accuracy and effect. Here's some reading of it: books.google.fi/books?id=LZO2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=compare+%22sako+TRG%22&source=bl&ots=m-K2tK4deK&sig=ACfU3U0mPVMnOIFwnvp2rReOp_cBITJ7cA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9grqmwfjqAhVol4sKHXQLAMc4MhDoATAHegQICRAB#v=onepage&q&f=false
Yes its Sako TRG
Sako TRG 42 in .338 Lapua Magnum. The, same rifle is in use within the Finnish Defence Forces and the Border Guard.
@@LowSet LOL no way those are .338 what they are using haha. The recoil is waaay more powerful. Im pretty sure those are the TRG22 .308 Winchester versions what Police is using...
Unit Karhu is start in 1972. Then there was 15 men. Now Karhu - police are about 60 men.When they do 40 years old , they must back normal police work.
Afternoon boyo another great vid. Always looking forward to these now
Good videos on Finnish forces in general and as a reserve of Finnish QCB I appreciate them. Fun fact, they actually pull regular - allthough the absolute best - officers all around the country to form the "Bear Squad". They train and specialize as SWAT, but basically work as normal officers when there is no special issue at hand.
On that demo that black wearing "police" is volunteer from audience and that demo was Lahti (one city on Finland). And sniper-rifle is sako trg-42 as some mention here. And many questions but ya have get many answers here. And great ya look this vid and thanks for great vid again :)
00:04:37
Sako TRG-22 Cal. 308 win and also Sako TRG-42 Cal. 338 lapua magnum.
They use both, depending on the mission
we finnish ppl are so proud about our def forces and every1 who lives in here. We are strong, we are smart and most of them all... We all have our backs what ever comes....
COOL! So glad you found this! - This unit truly is the 'tip of the spear' of the Finnish Police.....the demands in it, are truly incredible, and very secretive....but it's always out there doing 'the impossible' out of the limelight.
Last time they caught the Porvoo police shooter brothers.
Karhuryhmä flew in 20 minutes with helicopter and opted to chase the brothers who tried to kill the policeman. It was eventually a car chase if i that stopped with no dead bodies and the attempted murderers getting caught in Tampere after a crazy chase
The green rifle looks like Sako TRG 42.
Thank you for your videos!
The bear squad is a special intervention unit that covers the entire nation. Their main base of operations is the Helsinki police department. They are pretty close to Germany's GSG9 or French Gign. There's only a handfull of these guys in the unit and they're very highly trained. The bear squad is also the main operative group for Finland's Central Criminal Police that deals with similar stuff that the FBI and hrt-units do.
Then there's local special response units in every police department. They are not a part of the bear squad, they're more like local Swat-units that deal with situtations that involve high risk operations such as weapons or other dangerous things. These units are called "Vati" which is short for Vaativien tilanteiden yksikkö = Demanding situations unit. Hope this helps!
I was there when this demo happened at 12:45. It was a safety exhibition here in Finland and they were asking if someone from the audience want to part of the policegroup in this demoshow. You can actually see the guy who is keeping armourplate is this one lucky volunteered from audience!
I might be slightly wrong in some parts, but accordingly to Finnish News etc, during years Karhu has upgraded really much their loadout. German made ballistic high cut helmets (opscore like modular stuff), FN Scars, new plate carriers and also Finnish Police got new CZ Scorpion Evo 3:s instead of MP5'es these days.
Those sniper rifles are Sako TRG-42 which are chambered to the excellent Finnish .338 Lapua Magnum caliber.
The Camo unit was FInnish Border Patrol so probably when doing co-op things with those guys they camo up also. The whole border is basically forest or sea in Finland. Co-Op between border patrol and police is actually quite common in many situations. And for the showcase part. There is a reason why the Finnish police forces are one of the most respected among the citizens :) One time I even was at a ski resort and they had a training situation for the dog on the restaurant I was at and we were not informed about it to make it as real as possible for the dog.
As always you are one respectful dude 👍 could you do one about the minute men ?
Also know as the Beagle Boys in finnish vernacular.
Aku Ankka über alles.
Music from RuneScape?! :D Finn, and know that training.. Did my duty at military mid 90's
4:40 It's a Finnish made SAKO TRG sniper rifle, fairly famous. It's used by multiple special forces around the world, including the Russian FSB. It's the standard sniper rifle in the Finnish Defense Forces.
Here's a short list of known users: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sako_TRG
I was going to say that too. Caliber is .338 i think?
They have 2 different versions, one is .308 and one is .338.
Lapualaisil kudeilla ;)
The caliber is .338 Lapua in most cases. There are variants for NATO and other international compatibilities. Mostly .308 Winchester/7.62×51mm NATO and .300 Winchester
The Special Intervention Unit (AKA The Bear Group) is a national level police tactical unit. They handle all hostage and barricade situations, warrants on dangerous criminals, counterterrorism, and any other tactical operations/SWAT duties anywhere in Finland. They are based in Helsinki, the biggest city and capital of Finland.
Cool video. Like to see these reaction videos and get a glance of what our system looks like from the “American” perspective. I’d like to hear your voice louder and the music more quiet though :)
Props for the music buddy
In finnish we call it "Karhuryhmä". Music is cool, it sounds funny. Interesting stuff bro!
So much respect for these operators
The Helo is Finnish Border Guard (a paramilitary unit under the Ministry of the Interior, as is the Police) Agusta-Bell 412. But you were on the right track ID'ing it as A Huey; the 412 is from development path originating from the Huey. Kudos on that one! 👌
I once participated in a military exercise that also had the Karhu unit taking part. In this case they were the terrorists or the enemy, attacking a garrison we were protecting. They came early in the morning one day, with speed and lethal precision I had never seen before that point. Very impressive.
dude! you and your fast ropes!
4:14 That I think is the Sako TRG 22/42, used by the military and police
A Finnish rifle chambered in 338
Sniper rifle is Sako TRG 338. Lapua Magnum caliber. Army in Finland uses the same rifle.
The sniper/ sharpshooter rifle is Sako TRG-42, which I believe to be the first weapon system in 8.6x70 (also called .338 Lapua magnum). Both, the cartridge and the rifle are developed by Finnish companies who co-operate quite a bit in R&D. Both, the Finnish defense forces and the Finnish police use it. It might also be TRG-22 which is the same rifle but in 7.62x51.
Loving the RuneScape throwback
The marksman rifle is TKV2000, firing 338. Lapua Magnum. Its the same finnish made rifle that defence forces use.
Good video, would like to see a reaction to the battle of Berlin and also one about the Dambusters, both from WW2.
Couldn't help but notice the atom board.
Mbs boards are sick as hell
The rifle they used in 4:18 is a finnish made Sako TRG-22 bolt action rifle
A tip, if you have problems to pronounce some words, you can put them into google translate and there is a small speaker at bottom corner of the word where you can listen how they sound. :)
Those sniper rifles are SAKO TRG-22's in .308. The smaller sibling of the TRG-42 in .338LM which is the Finnish Defence Forces sniper rifle.
Maybe watch some US and Finland training together, look up Arrow 19
And Arrow 16,17,18
@@speediconsaales7599 Pick one Arrow exercise, I don't think he can watch all of them :D
You've read my mind bro :D. I was asking for a reaction video of Arrow
I would like tht
The sniper rifle they used around 04:00 is Sako TRG-22.
The ship you saw is a booze cruise ship. There are ferries going from Helsinki and Turku to Tallinn, Estonia and Stockholm, Sweden. Several times a day. And it's dirt cheap to get a 20h cruise ticket, go to Tallinn or Stockholm, never get out of the cruise ship, and carry cheap beer from the on board shop back home. Those ferries have a pub, a disco, a theme pub, shops. It's a party cruise. Very popular. A lot of drunk people. As in seriously, people go on Fridays or Saturdays on the cruise ship, drink on board, never get out of the ferry at the destination, wait until the ship goes back and then buy a couple of cases of beer for home when they get back.
At least back in the 90's you could get a 4 person cabin (lowest class) for as low as about €17 (100mk), which is probably something like $18-19. That's for 4 people. Under $5 per person. The cabin doesn't matter since you go there partying anyway. They get their money from the booze they sell.
This is really late but the sniper rifle was a Sako TRG-42 same that the military uses a .338 Lapua magnum. But also comes in .300win mag and .308 winchester.
That sniper rifle might be Sako TRG-22.. They also use Heckler & Koch G36(.223rem) etc.. Helicopter is "Super puma"
Hey, love your videos - always fun to see foreigners checking on our police/military videos! One completely off-topic question though - what are those plastic things you have hanging in the background, e.g. the white one saying ATOM? Thank you and love from Finland
Rifle is SAKO TRG. 338
Karhu is a mix of SWAT/Counter terrorism unit. Most of the guys are special jaegers. There is also TEPO. "Terror bomb squad" but there is no video available.
Thanks again!
my father served for bear squad for many years i have seen their private training videos and heard stories when my father was clearing out a school after Jokela school shooting, walking over dead bodies to clear out if there still was threat was probably one of the most nerve wrecking things you can do in your "regular" job
That copter was Agusta Bell of VARTIOLENTUE of RAJAVARTIOLAITOS. simply our boarderguards aviation section. RAJAVARTIOLAITOS have their own youtube channel also.
Actually the first part of the video is from a VATI group field show. It's like a SWAT group of local police forces, basicly few trained officers in every tour and group is to be alerted in scenes with high risks, weapons etc. These groups are in every police municipality (altogether somewhat around 15) in the bigger cities, northernmost in Rovaniemi Lapland. They are nowadays pretty well geared (assault rifles, M-B LAPV Enok) and trained with national tests every year.
That rifle is Sako TRG-42 and the Coast Guard helicopter is an Super Puma.
In the beginning it was called "Karhukopla" by Finnish media. "Karhukopla" is the Finnish name for "The Beagle Boys" in Donald Duck. It was shortened to "Karhu" because naming them after a gang of criminals was seen inappropriate. Officially it was called "Valmiusryhmä" that is "Response team" when it was established in 1972. It consisted of 15 men from the Helsinki police department traffic police.
that runescape beat is 🔥
The marksman rifle they use is Sako TRG-22.
8:59 Huge guy could be Dr. Harri Gustafsberg, former leader of Karhu, he was also a dog handler. You gotta read his book "Karhuryhmä" if it is available in english. Pretty interesting stuff.
green sniper looks like same that i had in military, SAKO TRG 42 .338
IIRC the one who has a pistol and is holding the shield in the public demo was actually a volunteer from the audience, so thats why it looks a bit clumsy and slow.
12:20 the finnish police (and i believe karhu too) use a TETRA based encrypted radio network called VIRVE ("VIRanomais VErkko" loosely translates to 'authority net'), they have repeaters covering practically everywhere in finland, but AFAIK they are moving to a new system (VIRVE 2.0) that utilizes mainly the 4G and 5G networks.
Finland has one police national SIU / CTU (Valmiusyksikkö, Karhu) and about 12 local police SWAT (Regional Special Response Team) teams. Finnish Border Guard has two SIU units, much like police national SIU and they have compatible tactics.
Video has lot of filming over 10 years old (sniper, helicopter, shooting range etc. scene). Guys who attack car in camo ballistic vests and Ops-Core helmets are from the local SWAT (RSRT) team.
The Finnish RSRT police do not use an M05 camo, but they have a MARPAT / CADPAT type camo overalls, hardshell and more. SIU Karhu uses the same CADPAT camo overalls as well as other equipment they needs. Overalls and other equipment are available in several different colors (Navy, dark blue, brown Green and civilian clothes ofcource), Swedish-made Snigel Design overalls, clothes with Finnish design, Crye, UFPRO etc. SIU Karhu and local RSRT have Ulbrichts Titanium + ballistic visor helmets and high-cut helmets (Ops-Core and United Shield). Ballistic Tactical vests, Plate Carriers and ballistic shields are mainly produced by the Finnish company Sioen OY.
4:11 I'm pretty sure that is one of the Sako TRGs. TRG-42 probably.
Fun fact: Finnish police can ask help from army, depending on case it goes up to ministers/generals but by law they can have all assets military has in their use. So basically finnish police can order airstrike if really needed. Only thing i now remember they got military ATV to crush through walls of bike gang building. I remember reading about man who armored his vehicle in usa and police couldnt stop him "call army and ask tank you idiot" but i learned thats impossible in there.
4:14 I believe the rifle is Sako TRG.
rifle is SAKO TRG42 used by Finnish snipers in army and police special units like Bear group
That RuneScape music tho😂😂
The closest I've ever seen to an emergency services demo in the UK is when I was in primary school and they had I think it might have been and Ambulance, fire engine and a police car came and we got to have a look around it, I think it was a different combination of the 3 each year, e.g only police and fire engine, or only ambulance and police etc., I can't exactly remember since it was ages ago.
In Finland police dogs are family members too. They live with their families, they are family dogs too. State of course pays for food and vet bills, but part of of their social skill training comes from home.
There was a hostage situation in my hometown back in '02, where this dude took a bus driver as a hostage at 3am and forced him to drive downtown. Couple of police units came by and he started shooting at 'em, eventually ending up in a local gas station that was open 24/7, took couple of more hostages there. Luckily they managed to escape soon after. Dude later threatened to blew up the station, but he didn't have any explosives with him. Later the police unit sent a dog after him but he shot the dog with a shotgun. There was also one APC in the scene (not sure if it was the Bear Unit), can't remember, but around 9am, a sharpshooter shot him above the knee when he started coming towards the cops and he didn't comply after several commands to drop his weapon and surrender. That was pretty wild. And last Fall, these two brothers made a fake 911 call (or 112 here in Finland) about a robber in a local small industrial area. One unit showed up and immediately those brothers took one of the cops as a hostage, shooting the other one in the arm, but he managed to escape, luckily the other cop escaped too. Soon after my old neighbourhood was filled with cops, choppers, Bear Unit and all that. Later the next day, those brothers were spotted in another town and there was a pursuit for awhile and they got caught. Greetings from Finland!
I belive its mix of two units on the video, you 'Karhu' which is part Police of Helsinki and response unit for high risk tasks or example to execute some high risk arrests etc, and they will support from military or border guard what comes material or vehicles etc. Camo guys are border patrol first reponders which example will go ships etc but they have same rights as a police. Wests looks pretty heavy because by standard Finnish police is using light west or like a level 3 west on any cases, so then will put heavy west over it. Rifle were some version of Sako TRG
That was another great reaction video! This is sort of my domain being a police dispatcher in Finland and having trained in the Finnish Police Academy. Here are my comments. I don't think the guys in the beginning of the video with the bulky body armor were actually Bear Squad. Looks like the stuff the regular patrol officers use if they need protection from high caliber weapons. The big earmuffs, they don't wear them on the field. They are just for the firing range. Sneaking around in the forest with the police K9 wearing black camos, they were just playing for the video. They don't really do that. The Finnish Police don't have their own helicopters. They hitch a ride from the Border Guards if they need to. The Border Guards fly Super Pumas which actually look a lot like Hueys.
Thanks for the info!
@@CombatArmsChannel I do have to correct myself, the helicopter in the video was a Bell-412. That is the Border Guard's older aircraft. The Super Pumas are the new stuff which I'm more familiar with. It was fun to hear your thoughts about their fast roping. Being a helicopter insert/extract master, you really know what you are talking about. My friend served in the Finnish Defence Forces as a MP. Some time ago she told me, she had fast roping training when she served. Next time I see her I have to her ask her more about that. Knowing that, I have to say, she is definitely badass!
came for the music, 5/5 👌
This video has a lot of very old, and not a lot of contemporary footage. Also, large parts of the original video depict regional police intervention units that are not a part of the Bear Group. They're essentially like local SWAT teams, or Vati teams (Vaarallisten tilanteiden ryhmä - dangerous situations team) consisting of regular officers with some special training and weapons.
The Bear Group is more akin to the FBI HRT just like you mentioned. It's a national-level unit under the Helsinki metropolitan police, however they work all over the country. They're called in for the most difficult and dangerous operations (organized crime, terrorism, hostage situations, tracking and detaining especially dangerous, armed individuals - for example). They often cross-train with the other Finnish special operations units - Border Guard's special intervention units (Valmiusjoukkueet), Navy's Special Operations Group or ETO (Erikoistoimintaosasto) under the Coastal Brigade, and the Army's Special Jaeger Company (Erikoisjääkärikomppania) under Utti Jaeger Regiment's Special Jaeger Battalion.
The contemporary Bear Group is a lot more focused on the special operations component than before. They've become a genuinely world-class intervention unit. Their work with dogs is legitimately top tier even compared to other European special police units such as the GIGN or GSG9 for example. Their gear has also gone through a thorough modernization - you can't tell them apart from any other tier one police unit - even weapons-wise you often see them with AR15/HK416 pattern rifles nowadays.
I dont now how old this montage on r training! Police dont use camo armor like army. Mp-15 and Clock usually. This is training in blue shues cop,only hanging in! Because work it dangerous physical and mental. Tought dudes! (No many klips case work it "classifield" secret!
11:00 It's actually a Koala. It's the smaller heli of finnish border patrol. The second one is the Super Puma.
9:27 Rajavartiolaitos = Borderguard. 4:20 Snipers using TRG from SAKO most likely. TRG42 8,6 x 70 .338 Lapua Magnum, or 7,62 x 67 .300 Winchester Magnum
It's basically equivalent to SWAT. They execute high risk detentions and warrants, hostage rescue etc. They're attached to normal police patrol units, but can be activated and detached when needed.
Finnish police doesn't have armored or air assets (apart from some newly acquired armored patrol vehicles), so they regularly lend these from the defence forces or border guards.
As per protocol, you don't hear anyone of these operators speak about their assignments, so in that sense they're secretive. The unit itself isn't a state secret or anyhthing, aka black ops.
the green-white-orange helicopter (and colours overall) are those of the finnish border guard.
Fun fact, all weapons of Karhu unit are semi-auto only. That is because by the law a police must be able to legally justify every shot fired. And every time police has discharged a firearm the legality of that use of force is tested in court.
In Finland basic police training takes about 3,5 years. Then one becomes a police officer, with a bachelor degree. Before that, person must have a degree and also conscript duty in the military done.
Military service is not required and and gives no extra points when applying the police academy. Source: www.polamk.fi/usein_kysytyt_kysymykset/poliisi_amk_haku
@@wanhapatu True. It used to be though.
you had to put the fucking runescape music in and now im all nostalgic
The chopper was from the boarderguard
awesome music at video 😁😁😁, that one dude at team was huge who has that dog when they was going border patrol helicopter 😁😁, and also good video bro i really enjoying, +1like full view 👍👍👍👍
And Rajavartiolaitos in the helicopter meand border guard and in finland there is a lot of forrest so the special units are a lot in cammouflage...
Those sniper rifles are TRG-42's chambered in .338 Lapua Magnum. Also they have camo probably because they are the Army's service rifles for snipers.
Riffle is Sako TRG, caliber unknown, most likelly -.338 Lapua
Regarding the camouflage on the TRG rifles, police marksman usually only have to be worried about being spotted from the front, not the sides so that could explain it. There's also a smaller chance for the camo material to snag on anything or getting in the way if there's less of it near the action. Although maybe they were just in the middle of applying the camo when they participated in that training, it's impossible to say.
Actually some of the footage that you had wasn't actually from the Bear squad at all. For example the demonstration that was made for the public citizens where the K9 got the "criminal" from the car was a demonstration of Finnish police VATI squad (VATI = Vaativien tilanteiden yksikkö, freely translated as Dangerous situations unit). VATI squads are on every police stations in Finland and they work as a normal police officers when not in VATI squad but they can be mobilized when needed.
The Bear squad is only in Helsinki police and they are not allowed to mobilize on their own. Only the local police station can call the Helsinki station and ask for the assistance of Bear squad and then if it is given a green light then it will mobilize for missions all over Finland. Also Bear squad guys don't work as normal police at all, they are using over 50% of their time on training and rest for mostly missions.
Oh man, I was supposed to go to sleep and then I see more of your videos......
Specially trained and equipped operational unit of the Finnish police (special force). It is located in connection with the Helsinki Police Department, but operates nationwide if necessary.(wiki)
@4:15 think that is Sako TRG 22 or 42?
Bolt sniper Sako trg in .338 one would assume. Sig 552. Helicopter belongs to Border (raja) guard.
13:48 got flashbacks from training here
I think rifle is Sako trg - 22 ( 338 lapua magnum)
42*, the 22 is 308 only. 42 is the magnum version
to correct myself a bit. Yes, it's the 22 in 308 that is used by Karhu-ryhmä, but it's the 42 that is 338 Lapua
@@jokelius1 you right im wrong !! 😁 sorry my bad 🙂