Police reform is presented to parliament Wednesday. It became known after Monday first leaked out that all current police districts will have new geographic boundaries, with the exception of the Oslo police.
KrF: Fears for neighborhood police
In particular, the major changes in the structure in Northern Norway, which currently has seven districts, newspaper VG reports.
According to the newspaper, it is up to each police commissioner to decide how many police and sheriff offices district should have. It allows for a sharp reduction in the current number of 354. Police Directorate response time requirements shall form the basis for the assessment.
Justice Minister Anders Anundsen denied however Monday night to NRK that there was consensus on reform.
– Nothing is clear until everything is ready, he said.
Not the goal
The government has previously announced that Parliament should get the police reform to treatment in March. Monday afternoon confirmed Justice spokesperson in FRP, Ulf Leirstein, told NRK that it will be presented to Parliament on Wednesday.
– We boilers not only to a government study. We have received many good suggestions that we should take account of, say Leirstein.
And parliamentary parties have expectations for the treatment of the reform in Parliament.
Government other cooperative party KrF are long out of negotiations on the reform, but is positive to the further proceedings of the case.
– This agreement means three voice predominance in Parliament. Such changes in the police should have the broadest possible anchorage, so I’m excited about this being presented as a “take it or leave it” from the government, says Justice spokesperson in KrF, Kjell Ingolf Ropstad, said.
He says he fears consensus on new organization of police leads to over half of the municipalities will be left without police office.
“Greatest centralization”
The Centre has described it as “all-time centralization of Norwegian police. “
– What I fear most is that the government with scarce possible majority, with support from the Left, will push through a giant reform without being willing to discuss changes with us, says Sps Justice political spokeswoman Jenny Klinge VG.
– We will read the proposal from Progress, Right and Left carefully and think it is a goal that a reform which will be of major importance for people’s safety and security, should have wide, bipartisan roots, says Hadia Tajik in a press release from the Labor Monday night.
She cites three factors as particularly important: whether the changes will move resources out of local police work, about the reform responds to criticism from 22 July- Commission on culture, attitudes and management of the police and whether the reform will lead to more cases being investigated and solved.
Powerful cuts
Although police districts cut from 27 to 12, the number be twice as large as police analysis recommends. In November last year said Attorney General Tor-Aksel Busch that six police districts were too few.
– I think the lowest number is nine, the highest 14 to 15. One place in between will probably result, said Busch, which also may have hit pretty well in their estimates.
Police Director Odd Reidar Humlegård believed at the time that under ten districts would be a big improvement, but it would be worse with more than that. (© NTB)
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