Believes preparedness is better than 22 July 2011: – The results were … – NRK

Preparedness in Norway has received strong criticism after the terrorist attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011, including the Gjørv Commission and later by the OAG.

Friday invited Justice Minister Anders Anundsen (FRP) and Police Director Odd Reidar Humlegård the press to talk about measures that make the police were handled attacked in a better way today.

– New potential attacks will never look the same, so it is important to be clear that we has a generally better preparedness today than we had then. We are better prepared to deal with both the imaginable scenarios and what you can not imagine, says Justice Minister Anundsen.

Anundsen believes interaction between the police and the defense has improved. Here from Exercise “Gemini” in 2012.

Photo: Simon Solheim / NTB scanpix

extensive “bragging list”

Anundsen leave Friday until what must be called a comprehensive praised list of steps he believes has made contingency better the last five years:

• Improved cooperation between the armed forces and the police, which was criticized by Gjørv Commission.
• strengthening PST: police security service has been strengthened by 60 percent. This applies to both analytical capacity and bodyguard service.
• New plans for preparedness for major events. This will also capture and correct errors detected by emergency exercises in a better way.
• 1054 new police positions since the change of government in 2013.
• The number UEH brigades (the police emergency unit) is increased, should be at around 1,000 during the year.
• Emergency squad is strengthened by 40 per cent since the autumn of 2013.
• It is required to have response times that police meet, although Anundsen previously said that these requirements are too loose.

police Director Odd Reidar Humlegård agree with Justice Minister that preparedness is better in the police now compared with five years ago.

– If we had in place what we have in the 22 July 2011, so did the outcome probably been different. We have put in place emergency network, which had ensured good communication and fewer misunderstandings. We have a greater capacity operation centers, we have received new applications, we forward storage and we have several police officers who are better trained, says Humlegårdsvägen.

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Scroll arrows to see different urban categories. Districts marked in red have exceeded the requirements. The figures are based on 80 percent of the fastest call-outs.

– Dramatic lag

Anundsen views for a better preparedness is not necessarily shared that officers of the police. In February this year wrote Kristin Aga, leader of the Oslo police union of “Excess Program,” which would be her salvation when it comes to the big challenges that exist in ICT since the Norwegian police.

Kristin Aga, leader of the Oslo police union, has been critical of spending in connection with the “added value program.”

Photo: Martin HW Zondag / NRK

the program was laid down before it had come properly underway, but had already managed to cost several hundred million. Anundsen says that now uses about 300 million a year on developing police ICT capacity.

– There is a time lag that is dramatic in that area. Some of these ICT systems are older than me, and it has major consequences when it gets knocked out. Excess program was a billion project that really gave a user gains for the police or the public, but that would create the foundation. Now we do both parts in parallel, says Anundsen.

Humlegårdsvägen says that efforts to improve the police ICT everyday high priority.

– We have many legacy systems that are critical to have an emergency, to deal with major incidents, and the daily police service. This is some of what we now spend most attention to, in addition to police reform. It is an important prerequisite for a functioning police and we have an ICT lag is going to cost billions.