After the Assassination of Olof Palme in 1986, two state commissions were appointed to assess Swedens counter-terrorism capabilities. As a result, the government ordered the Swedish National Police Board to organize the "Standby Force Against Terrorism" ("Beredskapsstyrkan mot terrorism") within the Stockholm County Police Authority in 1990. The group was soon renamed "Nationella insatsstyrkan" and became also a resource for the whole of Sweden. The right to make decisions about when they were used was delegated by the government to the Swedish National Police Board. After a parliamentary decision in 2002, the NTF was transferred from the Stockholm County Police Authority to the National Criminal Police ("Rikskriminalpolisen"). In connection with the reorganization of the police in 2015, the NTF was placed under the National Operations Department.