Spesialenheten East to investigate bergenspolitiet – Bergens Tidende

Spesialenhetens etterforskningsavdeling in southern california to investigate bergenspolitiet after a police officer warned that the police not intervened in the rough drug offences.

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It was the VG, which first reported on Monday afternoon that Spesialenheten to investigate the case. The newspaper revealed Saturday that the notifier claimed that spanere were told not to intervene against gross drug offences.

Such as the case has developed, it is entirely natural that Spesialenheten will investigate this. This welcome we and looking forward to cooperate with Spesialenheten, says police commissioner Kaare Songstad in the West police district on Monday afternoon.

To prepare

Spesialenheten now come to examine whether “the police have failed to intervene at the specific knowledge about the ongoing gross crime, ie. in situations where the police have had a duty to intervene,” writes Spesialenheten.

Since such a failure can be a criminal offence, has Spesialenheten determined that there are reasonable grounds to initiate investigation.

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the First will Spesialenheten to clarify whether the police have failed to intervene at the specific knowledge about the ongoing gross drug offences. If it has happened, comes Spesialenheten find out which directives as specifically provided, who is behind the directives and considerations that lie behind these.

Questioning in Bergen

the Investigation of the case happens on the east and not from the Spesialenhetens department in Bergen.

– It is about the capacity of the department in the West. We have several investigators in Oslo and Hamar, and fewer cases than it is the case in the West, ” says Presthus.

There is Life on the Island which will lead etterforskningsarbeidet. She tells us that work will start to collect all that exists of the documentation.

– We shall carefully go through the material and then consider what etterforskningsskritt we will perform and the scope of these, ” she says.

She does not know how long the investigation will take. The investigators are going to travel to Bergen, among other things, to conduct the questioning.

the Alert was sent to police commissioner Kaare Songstad in april of this year and is since treated of the director of public prosecutions. In two identical letters to the California public prosecutors and the chief of police in the West police district has the attorney general commented on issues such as notification of travel in relation to established priorities and the police access to the failure investigation even though there is a legal basis for it, according to Spesialenheten.

In the letter, the states attorney general, among other things, that it is assumed that the West police district carries out its mission in line with the central guidelines.