One of the cases that have been investigated, occurred on November 20 last year when it was fired accidentally shot at Namsos and Fosnes sheriff’s office. Now the Bureau has given the policeman who fired the shot a fine of 12,000 crowns, which he has adopted.
It writes vg.no Saturday morning.
The course of events should have been that the policeman stuck a finger down in Gun Holsters colleague, and that shot was fired when he pulled his hand back. This happened inadvertently.
“He had not previously ascertained that the gun was unloaded,” said the writ that VG has been given access to.
The shot that was fired hit a female police officer in the leg.
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Have investigated several cases in Central Norway
Halvor Hjelm-Hansen, head of the investigation department of the Norwegian Bureau for the investigation of police Affairs in Central Norway and Northern Norway, according to Adresseavisen that department the past two years has investigated seven or eight cases in connection accidental firing by the police in the area.
– I can in general say that for cases in Central Norway, some ended in positive prosecution decisions – for example this case from Namsos, but there are also matters as a shelved. For more detailed information about this, I am referring to the Bureau leader in Hamar, says Hjelm-Hansen.
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Nerve damage
in a press release sent out by police after accidental shot in Brasov were injuries to the policewoman termed as moderate.
– We have been informed by health care that harms her assessed as moderate. Both the injured woman and the employees of police in Brasov and Fosnes is safeguarded according to police district HSE procedures, wrote the police press release.
The shot hit the female police officer below the right knee, and went out of the leg about 20 cm further down. It did not hit bone, but at the Orthopaedic Department at St. Olav’s Hospital, she noted nerve damage in the leg, newspaper VG reports.
It is also apparent from the case that the woman is still partial sick leave and rehabilitation. The injuries in the leg has improved, but it is too early to say if she gets unharmed significant.
– Really hurt
The newspaper writes that the policeman, according to the Bureau’s own descriptions of the episode , would “show or try something on her service pistol while it was in the holster as she carried on the hip. He stood behind her and the next thing she remembers is that it said “bang” and that she lay on the floor and had “really hurt” in the right leg, “says the Special Unit decision.
The policeman is charged with violating the Penal Code § 188, “to have treated a firearm in a careless manner that was likely to cause danger to others’ life or health.” the decision will be in aggravating emphasized that the shot “was not only to danger, but actually led to a relatively serious injury, “writes VG.
the newspaper also writes that the woman is still on sick leave. The male police employees are working, but not operational.
This is as a result of the case, said police chief Nils Kristian Moe Trondelag.
– It’s not as long as we got the decision from Bureau. We now have case to personnel assessment, Moe says to Adresseavisen.
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