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Police officer ‘shocked’ by indictment

UPDATED: Eirik Jensen, formerly one of the Oslo Police District's most high-profile investigators and top officers, says he's "shocked" that he's been indicted for...

Murder rate falls to a 44-year low

A total of 23 people were murdered in Norway last year, the lowest number since 1971, when 22 people were killed. The low murder rate...

Police settle on new district bases

Norway's police districts are being consolidated and streamlined, with state Police Director Odd Reidar Humlegård announcing on Wednesday where the new bases of operations...

Police allowed to continue carrying pistols

Justice Minister Anders Anundsen has once again extended his allowance for police to bear arms, citing what he called a "major" lack of clarity...

Skull found in Bergen is ‘sensational’

A human skull found near a popular swimming beach south of Bergen on Norway's West Coast last spring initially set off murder alarms. Now...

Two police officers stabbed in Vennesla

Two plain-clothes police officers were stabbed and seriously injured outside a bank in the small southern Norwegian town of Vennesla Friday afternoon. They were...

Majority supports re-arming of police

A new public opinion poll shows a majority of Norwegians supporting the decision earlier this week that extended an order allowing police to continue carrying weapons,...

Order to disarm police reversed

UPDATED: As Norwegians continued to stream to the French Embassy in Oslo over the weekend, to honor those killed in Friday night's terrorist attacks in...

Norwegian police ordered to disarm

The state police directorate announced Friday that Norwegian cops on the beat will no longer be allowed to carry weapons. The decision is based...

PST: ‘ISIL terror threat has declined’

Norway's police intelligence unit PST lowered the threat level for a terrorist attack by ISIL supporters in its latest evaluation of the country's security...
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