[1] By 2007, USP had conducted roughly 1,650 missions[5] with an average of 300 assignments annually.

Two-thirds of these missions were police arrests or surveillance, and one third of these tasks was close protection or other escort duties.

[5] Notable achievements of the formation include: Applicants to the USP must be younger than 30 years-of-age with several years of experience in the Luxembourg police.

The applicants are tested for motivation, teamwork, thinking skills, and physical endurance.

Once selected, candidates are trained over the course of six months in abseiling, basicing defuse and disposal of bombs, close protection, close-quarters battle, commando style raids, counter-ambushes, counterterrorism, fast tactical shooting, field intelligence gathering, hand-to-hand combat, infiltrate the area with a helicopter, intervention, living difficult to access terrain, hostage rescue, marksmanship, medevac, mountain warfare, observation, reconnaissance tactics, SERE, tactical emergency medical, and urban warfare.