Tag: police

Police armed as terror threat rises

Norway's normally unarmed state police started carrying weapons on a temporary basis Thursday. They cited a higher threat of terrorist attacks carried out by...

Police accused of sexual harassment

Norway's state police force is run by women, as is the state police academy. That hasn't prevented sexual harassment from permeating the ranks, not...

Police criticized after mosque shooting

An external investigation of police response to last year's shooting at a mosque in suburban Bærum has resulted in some sharp criticism. It took...

Speeding zooms in the Corona crisis

There's been an alarming acceleration in the numbers of Norwegian motorists caught driving at high rates of speed in recent weeks. Oslo police point...

Police have won public confidence

Fully 94 percent of Norwegians feel safe in Norway, and 79 percent have confidence in their police. That's even higher than two years ago,...

PST raises threat of right-wing terror

Norway's domestic police intelligence unit PST issued a new terror warning on Thursday that raises the threat of attacks carried out by right-wing extremists....

Cop charged with corruption back in court

An appeals court trial began again in Oslo on Wednesday for Eirik Jensen, the retired Oslo police officer who's been charged and convicted by...

Police unprepared for weekend riot

The US Embassy had managed to warn its own citizens in Oslo of potentially violent demonstrations outside the Turkish Embassy on Saturday. Local police,...

PST ‘underestimates white terror threat’

Norway's police intelligence unit PST received tips last year about the young Norwegian white supremacist who murdered his adopted ethnically Chinese step-sister and then...

Shots fired during Oslo robbery

Two people wearing helmets drove a motorcycle up to the entrance of a jewelry store in the heart of Oslo late Monday morning, stormed...
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