Slædepatruljen Sirius
| Sirius Dog Sled Patrol | |
|---|---|
| Slædepatruljen Sirius | |
| Founded | 1941 |
| Country |
 Greenland
|
| Allegiance |
 Danish Realm
|
| Branch | Joint Arctic Command |
| Role |
Reconnaissance Enforcing national sovereignty Information operations |
| Size | 14 |
| Garrison/HQ | Daneborg (74° 18'N 20° 14'W) |
| Nickname(s) | Siriuspatruljen |
| Mascot(s) | A Sled dog |
| Engagements | World War II |
| Commanders | |
| Chief of Defence | General Bjørn Bisserup |
| Chief of Joint Arctic Command | Maj. Gen. Kim Jesper Jørgensen |
Sirius Dog Sled Patrol (Danish: Slædepatruljen Sirius), known informally as Siriuspatruljen (the Sirius Patrol) and formerly known as North-East Greenland Sledge Patrol and Resolut Dog Sled Patrol. The Sirius Partrol is an elite Danish naval unit. It conducts long-range reconnaissance patrolling, and enforces Danish sovereignty in the Arctic wilderness of northern and eastern Greenland, an area that includes the largest national park in the world. Patrolling is usually done in pairs, sometimes for four months and often without additional human contact.
The Sirius Patrol has the ability to engage militarily, and has done so historically. Its purpose is to maintain Danish sovereignty and police its area of responsibility. The physical and psychological demands for acceptance into the unit are exceptional. Crown Prince Frederik patrolled with the Sirius Patrol.
In 1933 the international court of the League of Nations ruled in the Danish-Norwegian dispute over Erik the Red's Land that for it to remain Danish, Denmark had to assert its sovereignty there. Initially, this presence was in the form of two fixed police stations.
The sled patrol unit, first known as the North-East Greenland Sledge Patrol, was activated in the summer of 1941 during World War II to conduct long-range reconnaissance patrols along the northeast coast of Greenland thereby preventing German presence there. Its headquarters was at Eskimonaes, which had been until then a scientific station. At the time, the Germans established a number of secret weather stations on the eastern coast of the island to provide them with invaluable meteorological information both to assist their U-boat campaign and to predict the weather in the European theatre. Thus the patrol's discovery of these stations denied Germany such information with significant implications both for the Battle of the Atlantic and for air and land fighting in Europe, despite the enormous distance of Greenland from the main theatres of war.
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