Takes over the investigation of the Bergen police – VG

Takes over the investigation of the Bergen police – VG

Police Directorate deprives now chief of Bergen responsibility to examine themselves: Now it will be investigated how the police district treated homicide detective who raised the alarm about Monika case.

This confirms Police Directorate Personnel Director Karin Aslaksen to VG.

– It is true that it is decided to deal with this matter notification from the Police Directorate. It means that the directorate will obtain external consultants to conduct a review of the case. Police Master handling covered by the whistleblowing case, and therefore it is natural that the matter be raised to the superior authority, says Aslaksen.

Last week pointed Police Geir Gudmundsen Hordaland to VG that the investigation of alerts management should be done in consultation with Agency.

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Now it is clear that the chief is lifted completely out of management.

It was the whistleblower’s attorney, Jens-Ove Hagen, who demanded such a scrutiny of how his client was treated. He should have been rejected by both colleagues and the chief himself – and was sick as a result of that he raised the alarm about the lousy murder investigation by Monika-death.

Sent matter away

Police Geir Gudmundsen sent this requirement investigation over to the Bureau, which was already well underway to investigate several aspects of Monika investigation. The rationale chief state is that he believed that it should not take place parallel investigations of this.

Now, however, the Bureau indicated that there is no obstacle to its own investigation of this relationship. Police Directorate has also meant that the chief of Hordaland would initiate its own investigation.

Last week police let out a message that there would be engaged two lawyers to investigate. Who this is, is not clear yet, but this selection should be made in consultation with the Police Directorate, confirming Gudmundsen of VG.

Gudmundsen has not answered inquiries from VG today.

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Puzzled

Lawyer Jens-Ove Hagen says satisfied that notifies processing internally in police now being investigated, but is puzzled that the police have spent two months to arrive at this decision.

– The Bureau can neither deny or impose police to make such scrutiny. To make such an internal investigation stated at Work Act and such investigation follows a completely different track than a police investigation with the Bureau. Each police shall have established their own rules for how such scrutiny to take place, says Hagen.

He believes that those who are appointed to undertake the investigation, should not have any ties to either Bergen and Hordaland police and moreover be well qualified labor.

Reacts

The largest union in the police, Norwegian Police Federation, also responds to the chief of police dealings. On its website questioning the chief of police impartiality and that the chief has used the Bureau as an advisory body in evaluating what steps he can take:

– Norwegian Police Federation believes that it appears strange that a police commissioner who is himself responsible for monitoring the whistleblowing cases, must obtain permission from the Bureau. It is absolutely clear rules in whistleblowing cases, and responsibility for such matters lies to police management, says union leader Sigve Bolstad VG.

– We need the bottom of alerts cases. The best way to do that is that external experts are doing a total review of all notification cases, associated procedures, systems and so on, Bolstad.