On Sunday evening sat NRK spotlight on the number of forensic autopsies are almost halved in 25 years, after each police even had to cover costs. Where you live in the country also has a bearing on whether the police requesting an autopsy.
The government has submitted a draft law on new rules for autopsy, said Undersecretary Hans J. Røsjorde. Photo: Eirik Hildal
Monday says Justice and Public Security to NRK that the government has submitted a draft law in December about new rules for autopsy, where the partly proposes to legislate a duty to consider the autopsy on all deaths and an obligation to prove that the assessment is done.
– This will help to increase attention that it is important to conduct more autopsies and about which deaths should be considered more closely, said State Secretary Hans J. Røsjorde (FRP) of the Justice and Public Security to NRK.
DRASTIC REDUCTION: Tall NRK has collected shows that autopsy numbers dropped drastically shortly after expenses were moved from a centralized fund to the individual police in 1992. Photo: NRK
– A more comprehensive legislation on autopsies
After Justice on 31 December 1991 removed a central fund that covered all expenses at autopsy and transport, were spending responsibilities assigned each police district. This led to autopsy numbers plummeted.
Autopsy figures fell from over 3,000 in the peak year 1989 below 2000 in 1993. This year’s figures were 1712 autopsies in mid December. Figures NRK has collected also shows that there are major differences in how many being autopsied by police district to because of economic priorities.
Head of Communications in the justice and emergency ministry, Gunnar A. Johansen, says that the purpose with the proposals is to achieve a more comprehensive legislation on autopsies and increasing autopsy rate by determining a requirement to consider autopsy at all deaths.
– Although the proposed new legislation does not directly go on forensic autopsies, will by increasing the number of medical autopsies also likely uncover more unnatural deaths requiring expert likundersøkelse, Johansen says to NRK.
FEARS MURDER GOING UNDER RADAR: Grete Lien Metlid fear that some murders are ignored because we carry too few forensic autopsies, and believes that the low autopsy rate is a threat to legal certainty.
– A danger of legal certainty
Both Section Grete Lien Metlid by violence section of the Oslo police and coroner Torleiv Ole Rognum Institute of Forensic Medicine at Rikshospitalet in Oslo said NRK that they fear that some murders are ignored because we conducting forensic autopsies get, and believe that the low autopsy rate is a threat to legal certainty.
– There is an economic problem here. Transport is expensive, and the autopsy rate decreases substantially with increasing distance from the forensic centers. Since a low autopsy rate increases the likelihood that one can overlook criminal acts, then this constitutes a danger to legal certainty, said Rognum NRK.
He was supported by Lien Metlid, who believe that the time is ripe for a new funding.
– The best would be if we got a centralized funding, which enables the individual police district economy has nothing to say about the conduct autopsies, said Lien Metlid NRK.
BIG DIFFERENCES: Tall NRK has collected shows that there are large geographical differences on whether police requisitioning forensic autopsies. Photo: NRK
Performs far fewer autopsies than the recommended
There is a distinction between legal / forensic autopsy and clinical / academic autopsy. In the latter it is the treating physician requesting autopsy while the police or the courts crave forensic autopsy. This applies unnatural deaths where the cause is unknown and death have occurred suddenly and unexpectedly.
State Health recommends autopsy of 40 percent of those who die. The number of autopsies is ten percent of the total number of deaths in Norway, while Finland is tight up to 30 percent.
First Attorney Katharina Rise by Attorney General’s Office wrote in an email to NRK that they are familiar with the decline in the number of forensic autopsies and that they repeatedly have been in dialogue with Justice and Public Security and expressed concern about the decline.
Ministry of Justice announced last week that they do not have plans to change the funding 2015.
SE fixture in Dagsrevyen ABOUT autopsy: The experienced Coroner Torleiv Ole Rognum are concerned about the large differences in the number of autopsies petitions from police district to.
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