Tag: preparedness
Government grilled on security issues
NEWS ANALYSIS: Seven years after a right-wing extremist's bomb destroyed Norway's government headquarters in Oslo, film crews were recreating the grim scene over the...
Solberg stresses security
Prime Minister Erna Solberg seems to realize that the best defense is a good offense: Just days before being called in for questioning by...
Terror preparedness blasted again
Norwegian politicians have been repeatedly criticized for failing to secure some of the country's most venerable institutions from a terrorist attack. Now the state...
State starts urging crisis preparation
Severe storms and greater potential for other calamities are prompting new campaigns that will urge Norwegians to be better prepared for a crisis. Everyone...
PST wants police to always be armed
UPDATED: Norway's civilian police intelligence unit PST has, for the first time, gone public in recommending that Norwegian police be armed at all times....
Oslo uses flowers against terrorists
City work crews in Oslo were busy during the night, setting up more heavy flower- and planter boxes along the main boulevard running through...
Police, military carry out major anti-terror exercise
Around 900 police and military personnel were taking part in a major anti-terror exercise in Oslo and the southern Agder counties early this week....
‘Norway is not prepared for terror’
Retired Norwegian general Robert Mood is openly defying recent claims by Justice Minister Per-Willy Amundsen that Norway "has never been better prepared" for a...
Islamists and Russia pose biggest threat
In a chilling return to Cold War rhetoric, the head of Norway's police inteligence unit PST declared on Wednesday that Russia has the intention...
France attacked as Oslo recalls its own
Prime Minister Erna Solberg has expressed shock and deep sympathy for "all the people of France" following the attack in Nice by a lone...
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