Tag: police
Russian vessel crews face new restrictions
Norway has controversially continued to allow Russian vessels to dock at selected ports in the north, for trade and maritime assistance reasons. Now the...
Commission recommends arming police
Norwegians seem to reluctantly be accepting that their police carry arms. Norway long prided itself on having generally unarmed police, but threats of terrorism...
Police strike back at latest rash of street violence
Calling them a bunch of "extreme bullies," Oslo police were not at all happy with groups of young men who set off more violence...
Police call for more help at Mongstad
Norway's western police district has asked the military for help, if the need for extra security around Equinor's huge oil and gas plant and...
Lack of police allowed deadly rampage
A mentally unstable man armed with a crossbow and arrows was able to carry out a violent and deadly rampage in Kongsberg last fall,...
PST boss quits under pressure
Hans Sverre Sjøvold, a former chief of police in Oslo, resigned in disgrace on Thursday as head of Norway's police intelligence agency PST. Sjøvold...
PST boss comes under fire
The leader of Norway's police intelligence unit PST, Hans Sverre Sjøvold, has landed in trouble again over his earlier illegal possession of weapons, now...
Norwegian passports went missing
A Norwegian father who had ordered a passport for his infant son was surprised to find not one but two passports in the family's...
‘Police need help’ in a nervous Oslo
A recent rash of shootings, robberies and now even another threatening situation in broad daylight have suddenly raised questions about how safe a city...
All police get electric shock weapons
The Norwegian government has decided that police on patrol all over the country can now be equipped with electric shock weapons. A pilot program...
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