SØRHAGE took over responsibility for the police at Oslo Airport on 15 October 2009. Already at that time was the police post considered to be understaffed.
– But it has never been worse here than now, he says to Romerikes Sheet.
This weekend police were hit by disease. Staffing problems led both Friday and Saturday to the police post had to close. There are doing it impossible to obtain an emergency passport, which only the police post at Gardermoen issuer on weekends. On a typical Saturday normally issued between 10 and 30 emergency passport.
And the wait at passport control were up to three hours on Saturday, according to NTB.
– We can not seem to get the resources to suffice. We are very vulnerable if someone gets sick, says SØRHAGE, who denies that the security concerns:
– This weekend we chose security front service. We must always do, underlines SØRHAGE, which is more concerned about the employees than for safety.
– Employees struggling
According SØRHAGE are a total of 175 jobs at the airport police station. 23 of them are vacant as a result of monetary shortage in the police district that RB has previously written about.
– I would estimate that I currently missing at least 50 positions to get it to go around, says SØRHAGE.
It is not the first time he should take a leaf from the mouth. Also in 2011 he called a cry through RBs columns:
– I have staff sitting in passport booth for eight hours straight, without meal breaks or opportunities to go to the bathroom. There is talk of exploitation, which runs on your health away. Police at Gardermoen is so understaffed that it is bordering on the irresponsible, he said at the time.
In 2016, therefore the situation even more precarious, according SØRHAGE.
– The staff struggling . Many dread to go to work, says SØRHAGE today.
– Who is responsible?
– The challenge is that we are part of the former Romerike Police and must compete for funds with the other operating units. I look at the police reform and the new organization as an opportunity.
Needs Action
Helga staffing crisis has not gone unnoticed in the political environment.
– This must be corrected immediately. Initially must police themselves find means together with the National Police and ensure that passport checks can be completed in a proper and safe way, says Labor deputy Hadia Tajik said.
She sends the ball on to Justice Minister Anders Anundsen (FRP).
– The resources of the police is a political responsibility. It is the Minister of Justice’s task to ensure that this happens, she states.
Immediately
Already Sunday night she answers. Anundsen ensures that police at Gardermoen now getting 14 new positions to reduce waiting times at passport control, according to NRK.
Ten of the new positions will be in place already from Monday, while the next four will be ready within a week.
Justice Minister Anders Anundsen (FRP) is nevertheless not satisfied with how the staffing situation at the airport has been handled by the police.
– It’s a situation that is completely untenable, and that should have been resolved long ago, he says to NRK.
Also in June alerted the police at Oslo Airport that they had the capacity to issue an emergency passport. The once beat Anundsen determined that the police shall provide public necessary services, such as issuing travel documents, and police post was still held open.
In June, police district a meeting with Police Directorate on the situation.
New meeting
– We are waiting for another meeting, said SØRHAGE, who denies that the closure of the police post is an action to draw attention to staffing problems.
– These things we do not. We take responsibility for the tasks we have, he says.
■ Sunday got SØRHAGE “borrow” the people from the other operating units in Romerike, so the police post was manned.
– Do not blame the chief
Parliament Sverre Myrli (AP) responds to Anundsen criticism of the police.
– It is very special that the Minister of Justice takes on chief . I think that is simply a violation of justice minister. Everyone knows that there have been too few positions at Gardermoen. Police may not conjure up new police positions and need crews elsewhere in Romerike. This could justice minister sorted out two months ago. I took it up, also in RB, before the summer break, says parliamentary representative Sverre Myrli to RB.
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