– As it is today, it is our assessment that it is harmful to blow the whistle on workplace conditions, says leader of the Norwegian Police Federation, Sigve Bolstad told NRK.
the Association is the largest within the police with over 16,000 members. This week adopted an overall national union decided they no longer would advise members to alert, when they discover illegal or misconduct in the police.
– With the bad experience we have is our answer simply, if any had to come and ask us for feedback, says Bolstad.
the experience revolves around both how whistleblowers are met in the police, but also how they are treated when they try to get a job in other industries. Labour Minister believes dissuasion incorrect procedure of the union.
FIVE detectors BERGEN: It started with Robin Schaefer, who went through the investigation of Monika Sviglinskaja (8) their deaths. Subsequently, four other police employees exempt status as alerts. They have told about sick leave, relocation, conflicts and the feeling that managers take revenge.
– the ultimate consequence could mean that serious problems never come to the table, says anniken hauglie (H).
– Struggling for years
Norwegian police Federation is organized under the country’s second largest union, Unio, which has 340,000 police officers, teachers, nurses and academics as members.
– it is very serious when a union goes out and warns alert. I, as a leader in Uniontown, will not dissuade anyone alert. They are too important for that, says Ragnhild Lied.
She rejects still not the Police Association’s stance, but says it is understandable. Unio experience that many who notifies the employer gets sick and struggling for several years to get back to work.
– The decision must be understood from the experiences they have from whistleblowers in the police, but also experiences we have outside police. For it is not an issue that just affects where, says Lied.
Unio believes protection of whistleblowers is too weak and attempt gaining support among politicians for a system of national alerts ombudsman. Without a specific organ to safeguard those who criticized the employer, many will find that it is hard to stand alone and lonely with criticism, according Lied.
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sick and tired: – We must understand the decision their basis of experience they have in the police, but also in other industries, says Ragnhild Lied leader in Uniontown. The second largest trade unions are finding that many are sick of standing as alerts.
sick leave and redeployed
the reason for the police association’s decision is primarily experiences with four detectors in the former Hordaland police.
Robin Schaefer was the first, when he warned about serious shortcomings in the investigation into the murder of 8-year-old Monika Sviglinskaja. Schaefer was sick for a long time after notification, and now has changed jobs.
In the aftermath came three other police employees with extensive forecasts. They have since told about medical and relocations, conflicts and what they believe is retaliation for that notification.
A fifth employee, former section head Rigmor Isehaug, went out of their jobs and took status alerts because she longer would cooperate with the responsible leaders of Monika investigation.
police acquitted and the case dropped
the lawyers Wiersholm investigated the treatment of whistleblowers and said police broke the law in the face of Robin Schaefer. The case was recently dropped by the Bureau, which did not find evidence that it was a criminal offense. This week the lawyers acquitted Bergen police for retribution against the other four alarms.
Meanwhile, Per Terje Engedal sought jobs outside the police, but he feels that interest disappear the moment they become aware that he is one of the detectors .
‘NOT WANTED’: Labour Inspection gave police order changes after Per Terje Engedal notified. He finds support for what he warned about the penalty as a jobseeker. – It’s scary how they lose interest for a job interview when they understand that I’m one of the detectors, said Engedal.
– I have come to several second time interviews over the past year. When it becomes clear during the interview that I am one of the detectors, then fall away. The interest ceases. That’s what scares me the most, says Engedal.
– The price to notify is that I am excluded from the labor market. And there is a high price.
A potential employer should have called and asked him to withdraw his application, shortly after he became known in the media as one of the detectors.
also in a number of other major issues have detectors struggled with illness and getting a new job after having given notice.
the legislation does not
in 2006, forecasts protection Working Environment Act strengthened. A 2010 survey showed that every tenth alerts experienced getting reprisals because they had their say. Half of the workers said that they would not raise ethical or illegal conditions, because they feared reprisals.
The unions believe alert protection fails.
– It should be easier to stand forward, but it has not happened. Now we need politicians to take responsibility, unless it can unfortunately be so reprehensible and criminal offenses such as corruption never arrive, says Bolstad.
Police Association believes a separate notification ombudsman and a notification court. Today it is the employer himself who consider the complaint, and there are no external that can provide corrections. Additionally believes politiforeningen there should be separate groups in the workplace that treats alerts matters.
Going in trenches
The law was evaluated three years ago. According to Minister of Labour Anniken Hauglie (H) is the Ministry satisfied with how the law worked in the workplace. Some aspects of the regulations are still reviewed to assess whether it should be done tightening the law.
– is mainly the rules well. It is not the law itself that is the problem, but one sees that one has poor routines for dealing with whistleblowers, says Hauglie-.
– What can often happen is that employers and workers on each side goes in the trenches. Therefore it is important that the sides sit down at the table together.
The Minister dislikes that Norwegian Police Federation takes an active role in drawing warning that harmful.
trenches: Minister of Labour Anniken Hauglie (H) believes the law to protect whistleblowers works well enough today. – But it lacks good practices for meeting notification in the workplace, says Hauglie-. She thinks it must be resolved by talks between the employer and the union.
– they need to talk
– it is serious that they have done so. We are all served by serious incidents in the workplace arrives, says Hauglie-.
– Is it prudent to recommend people to notify when you see that many struggling, sick leave and not come back to work afterwards?
– In those situations it is even more important that employers and employees sit down and work together to find better procedures and systems, says Hauglie-.
Sigve Bolstad in Norwegian Police Federation believes the law looks better on paper than in the workplace, and require a more comprehensive review of how it works in practice.
– it was hardly the intention behind the law that those who then became whistleblowers should experience it as harmful. It must go back to the politicians on this issue, says Bolstad.
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