Comments on: Police in Norway: The Norwegian Policing System Explained

By: Keith

Keith — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:37:29 +0000

In reply to Mike Vanni. And the current pats are glad you’re an Ex. The farther you’re removed from the decision making processes, the safer we are. Glad you found a place where you have even less impact on your own community.

By: Fabian Schmidt

Fabian Schmidt — Mon, 29 May 2023 22:10:37 +0000

In reply to An ignorant yank.. Mobile phone in prison. Initially, no. But under special conditions, prisoners can access the internet. An example could be that a prisoner is in education. In order to face the future, prisoners must be prepared to take care of their freedom. Because when a prisoner is free, we as a society cannot look after them, or take care of them.

By: Dessale Berekhet

Dessale Berekhet — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:56:28 +0000

Interesting to read!
When I first came to Norway that was in Oct. 2012, I was directly taken from the airport to the police station in Skien. I really thought that I was taken to a kind of a clinic for some sort of quarantine. Because all those I saw in the building were women and had no weapon at all. Later, when I knew it is a police station, I felt a little bit insecure. In my little african head, women and on the top of that unarmed can hardly deliver any security. But after I read stories such as this one and I knew there is nothing to fear in this beautiful and peaceful land!

By: An ignorant yank.

An ignorant yank. — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 01:11:44 +0000

I am an ignorant yank. Can you please tell me if it’s true that offenders are permitted to use their personal cell phones at certain points of the day in Oslo’s jail?

By: Bill Watson

Bill Watson — Sat, 21 May 2022 05:41:22 +0000

Australian police services (State based) also employ police officer prosecutors. Patrolling Australian police until recent years carried their firearms in vehicle gloveboxes, but now wear them openly. Federal Police have wider powers of anti-terrorism and drug trafficking responsibilities throughout the country, co-operating with State Police and Border Force.

By: Mike Vanni

Mike Vanni — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 09:40:36 +0000

The fact that those who file criminal charges work for the same bureaucracy as those who prosecute those charges is downright scary – a built in opportunity for collusion where a clear separation of powers would have been preferable.

On the other hand, the U.S. practice of permitting mayors of every Podunk city to appoint their own chief of police is beyond scary – it’s an insanity that gives rise to variable rules, variable enforcement, and arbitrary punishments (the U.S. has more imprisoned persons per capita than any country on earth).

The inevitable abuses are manifest in the condition where one can’t have an abortion after 6 weeks in Texas, 15 weeks in Utah, and 25 weeks in California. On a more trivial level, an automobile driver is permitted to make a right turn at a red light in California, but not in Nevada. The rules of the road are contained in a book called the Vehicle Code. It’s about 1,500 pages long in California, but there are 50 different books across the U.S. because of the unfortunate notion of “states’ rights” embedded in the U.S. Constitution – every state gets to make its own rules. It’s less like a unified nation than it is an amalgamation of independent countries.

Glad to be an expat…