BERGEN (Dagbladet): Birthe Eriksen is in the final stages of his doctoral thesis which is entitled “Employee right to report unacceptable circumstances”. The thesis also referred the matter to the whistleblower Robin Schaefer in Hordaland Police.
– I use this case as an example of notification serious shortcoming in the judicial system. He warns that police and prosecutors fail in a very serious matter as it is linked heavy societal interests. It notified questions about life and death and a child who probably killed. It can not get more serious than that. Notification of economic crime pales in comparison, says Birthe Eriksen Dagbladet.
She met Robin Schaefer and have read bokmanuskriptet his. Birthe Eriksen call alert a security mechanism in the rule of law.
– Have alerts protection
– As a society, we are lucky if we have any alerting, when the ordinary system of management and control fails.
Birthe Eriksen heard the audio recording of the meeting that Robin Schaefer had in November last year with two representatives from the Police Directorate (POD) and a organizational psychologist who was hired by the chief of Hordaland.
– The consistently amazes me in this case is that police management sore doubt that Robin Schaefer has alerts status. An employee who notifies serious and reprehensible practices have alerts protection. The protection provided not only by the Working Environment Act, but also of the Constitution, paragraph 100 and Human Rights.
– Has hidden
– I ask myself questions about this is pure incompetence of police management and POD or whether it is conscious interests behind. One must understand that it is the rule of values here at stake, says Eriksen.
She notes that the management of Hordaland Police had one year in which to do anything.
– I mean the employer in this case far too long and far too long has been hiding behind all the investigations progress. They have pushed their employer responsibilities ahead. There is much that could have been restored to an earlier date.
– Designated protection program
She hopes now that the top management of the Ministry of Justice and the elected in Parliament see it as revealed in this matter and that it be related to some of the discoveries made in Gjørv Commission report by July 22 tragedy in Norway.
– They must see the relationship in terms of management culture in the justice and emergency agency . In the society we live in now, we need leaders with decision making.
– Considered risk
– This case also shows that whistleblowers who often find themselves in a lonely and very vulnerable situation must obtain a separate protection program. Both the US and UK is such realizations central. In the UK, they even own courts that deal alerts matters.
Birthe Eriksen says that the good leader is grateful when employees speak up about blameworthy conditions.
– When all goes well. Bad leaders fear notification from the staff as a risk in itself. It is about power culture that protects illegitimate interests.
She notes that we January 1 this year received a national notification channel for employees of justice and emergency agency. There sits an independent expert group that will receive and process the notification from the staff at the agency. Birthe Eriksen also wants a discussion on who should investigate alerts affairs of the agency in the future.
– It can not continue with the agency investigating itself. We recall that there was a big difference in Gjørv Commission report and the police’s own investigation report.
– expelling
She has read the book to whistleblower Robin Schaefer. She says that the pattern of his history that alerts are recognizable compared to other alerts things she knows.
– One experiences themselves subjected to processes at several levels. On the one experiencing one to be undermined as a professional by having one’s credibility in doubt. On the second experienced strong forces that attempt to defuse the message, ie the employee notifies. The pattern of Robin SHAEF history is well known. It starts with ar Notifier experiencing disregard, then rejection.
– When this does not get the whistleblower to drop ceiling in the case, comes the threat of possible consequences and sanctions. Eventually this leads to exclusion from the workplace. It is not unusual that the employee ends in prolonged sick leave, with the costs of this for both the employee himself, the employer and society.
Network
She recommends all other parties in a similar situation as whistleblowers that they ensure a solid support network outside the workplace.
– Robin Schaefer writes in the book that he has had the support of individuals and solid support from their union. It is crucial to survive such a situation. What’s nice about this book is that it moves the focus back to this matter is really about, namely a single worker struggle to restore the wrongs committed against Monika and her mother.
– I hope that it takes place a real restoration of this matter, also opposite Robin Schaefer, his family and friends. He is the kind of police officer that we need, especially in the risk society we live in, says Birthe Eriksen.
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