Was asked to send picture of dead person to the police – Bergens Tidende

Three women had to wait hours for help when they found a dead person in Balestrand.

According Sogn Avis was Marta Kvikne, Heidrun Bjorg Sveinsdottir Grinde and Inga Kupetauskiene first place as a dead person was found in a garden in Balestrand in Sogn og Fjordane.

the three are neighbors, and should have been contacted by a resident in the area that could not find the person.

– Televisions his stood on, and we started looking for him, says Marta Kvikne, who knew the deceased.

Had to take picture of deceased

But when neighbors contacted the ambulance, they expected that the police or health would scramble to take care of the person.

– We thought it was fixed procedures in such situations, but little indicated that, says one of the neighbors to Sogn Avis.

After they had talked with AMK, and checked that the person had not pulse, connected AMK out of the call.

the women continued the conversation with the police, who asked women to look for external damage and the circumstances of the deceased. Then they said they would call later.

– They called us up after half an hour and told that they considered this to be a natural death, and therefore not one police matter, says Kvikne.

Heidrun Bjorg Sveinsdottir Grinde react like Kvikne that the police did not come out.

– Yet they asked us to do the work the police clearly should have done on the spot. They asked a series of questions and asked us to take a picture of the person with your phone and send over, says Grinde.

Marta Kvikne react most of the missing legal protection for the deceased.

– We no prerequisite to know whether this was a suspicious death, or something about the state of man, from what we saw, she says to BT.

No who managed to place

Neither police or ambulance pulled out. It was several hours before an undertaker came and carried away the dead, as they must be by ferry to Balestrand.

– It was considered that this was not a police matter. Therefore, we sent no police resources, said police inspector Odd Arve Solvåg NRK.

He acknowledges that the women were asked to send the image.

– To ask outsiders to take picture of a dead person is not okay. In retrospect we can say that the review that was taken should have been done differently. We’ll regret that it was as it was, say Solvåg.

The police will review the matter internally.