Laws no more money to the police at the airport – ABC News

But he would also not open your wallet to solve the acute problems.

– This is an untenable situation that should be addressed within the framework adopted by the Parliament, says Anundsen said.

Labour’s deputy Hadia Tajik asked Saturday Anundsen to clean up.

– the resources of the police is a political responsibility. It is the Minister of Justice’s task to ensure that this happens, she states.

– Brist point

– We have reached a breaking point, says police chief at Gardermoen, Paal SØRHAGE, said.

– We can not seem to get the resources to suffice. We are very vulnerable if someone gets sick, he said.

Police Post at Gardermoen had to shut both Friday and Saturday, because all available staff were needed at passport control. It frames including passengers who, for various reasons, need an emergency passport.

Also in June alerted the police at Oslo Airport that they had the capacity to issue an emergency passport. When struck Anundsen determined that the police shall provide public necessary services, such as issuing travel documents.

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security risk

Employees at Gardermoen police station called Saturday to NTB and told about the problems.

– This has nothing to do with disease to do. We are chronically understaffed, we are missing 70 people, says one who does not want to get his name in print.

On Saturday it up to three hours waiting at passport control, getting NTB illuminated.

police fear that the wear of the employees may jeopardize safety. Wednesday said Police Chief Jon Steven Hasseldal in Eastern Police District told NRK that the pressure on border control is now so large that terrorists and criminals at worst will pass.

Three grip

Tajik believe that in the first it must police themselves find means together with the National police and ensure that passport checks can be completed in a proper and safe way.

More long-term suggest Labor three steps to improve the utilization of police resources: the police have enough money to hire graduates policemen, the allocation of sufficient funds for the operation and that civilians take over some administrative tasks and freeing police resources.

dialogue with POD

According SØRHAGE has Gardermoen police station for some time been in dialogue with Police Directorate (POD) to see if something can be done with the staffing.

– the challenge is that Gardermoen police station is completely different than a police. We are locked into the violent activity that is and the situation just gets worse and worse because air traffic increases, maintains SØRHAGE.

The police station had a meeting with POD in June.

– We are waiting at 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.