HOLMENKOLLEN (AP) Face to face with all the country’s police chiefs takes Anders Anundsen a powerful reckoning with the Bergen police handling of Monika case.
happened at the first ever summit between the police and prosecutors with the commanders of the special organization, Attorney General Tor-Aksel Busch and police director Odd Reidar Humlegård among the audience.
Lithuanian Monika Sviglinskaja (8) was found dead in his home in Sund at Sotra Hordaland 14 November 2011. First, the case was dropped, and the police thought it was a suicide, but now a person charged with murder.
VG knows that police chief Geir Gudmundsen in Hordaland present at parts of this police conference at Holmenkollen Park Hotel, which started with a police chief meeting.
– Only Gudmundsen determines
CAN NOT DISCARD? Police Geir Gudmundsen is police chief in Bergen, and only he can decide anything else, says his lawyer John Christian Elden.
Gudmundsen stepped aside as chief of police in February to be ordered to work for the Police Directorate in central Oslo until further – while Monika case was still subject to external scrutiny.
From his lawyer shall no signals that he will resign, quite the contrary:
– He is chief of police in Bergen until he possibly not politimester Bergen . I have not seen anything that would indicate that other than he can hit the election, said lawyer John Christian Elden VG.
Acting Police Chief John Reidar Nilsen says he works chief of police out only April.
Alerts scrutiny
Monika case is now the subject of an extensive investigation enough – namely how the various alarms in the case was treated by his colleagues and management. This work is outsourced to Wiersholm, headed by attorney Jan Fougner.
He told VG that work takes time – but he hopes to be completed during May.
– There are many we are asked to talk to. We now conduct interviews in both Bergen and Oslo, he said.
From the Police Directorate gets VG reported that alerts the investigation could be ready in about two months. Regarding Gudmundsen fate, says communications staff’s Gase Handeland t scheme acting police chief in Bergen will continue until further notice.
uncultured police
On the agenda at Holmenkollen conference stood criminal investigations that have come in backwater after 22 July terror, where the focus has been on emergency preparedness and operational efforts. And not the least; UNCULTURE police.
Now police be improved to solve criminal cases and learn from each other’s mistakes – good and bad. At the meeting also presented Attorney which cases the police should prioritize to uncover and solve in 2015.
Summit: Justice peaks Odd Reidar Humlegård, Anders Anundsen and Tor-Aksel Busch collected his troops for the first ever summit.
Photo: KÅRE M. HANSEN / Police
Important to evaluate
– Evaluation of own effort is important. But, unfortunately, there is one issue that has helped to give us a proper negative impact, not only for the Hordaland police their own sake but for the entire police force, said Justice and Emergency Minister Anders Anundsen (FRP).
There was no doubt about what he was referring to; that police management initially dismissed Monika Sviglinskajas (8) deaths even murder. It refused policeman Robin Schaefer to accept. After he announced the case was resumed, stepfather charged and police district imposed a live 100 000.
– But we will not only learn of the bad stuff, but also of the good, as there are many of . There is none of us who never makes mistakes. Nor is there any of us who have not known the burden of having a big stack work ahead of us.
Not embarrassing to make mistakes
It is not embarrassing to make mistakes. What is embarrassing is if one is not even helping to correct the error. Learning is something that is positive. It happens every single day. I know that.
Justice and Public Security Minister expressed great joy that Cold Case group by NCIS to tackle old, unsolved criminal cases are now in place. But again he came up with an ever so slight incision to the country’s police leaders:
– My impression is that it can easily go prestige in a case and that someone then do not like that other interfering. It is a prestige that we can not afford. That someone will give an input is good. It must be met with positivity and is a manager’s responsibility. There is absolutely no prestige defeat to open a case again.
Expect more police
Anders Anundsen makes it absolutely clear: He expects results after the agency has received 700 new police officers trained in the last two years. Several cases will be explained – and it will happen faster than is the case today.
– I expect that we get better results and that the police is in place when something happens. I think a lot about leadership and our commitment from the top of. Management must be clear and unambiguous.
Laws improvement
Attorney General Tor-Aksel Busch is also aware that his people, the lawyers, both to do more and better work in future.
– It is very important that Anundsen is so clear on what he expects. Not in my nearly 40 years at the agency I’ve heard a minister who is so clear in their expectations, said Busch, also known as the prosecutor in Treholt case in 1985.
Police Director Odd Reidar Humlegård laws stronger focus on investigation and prosecution – and better results.
– It is important and motivating to hear the minister’s involvement.
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