Sp wants to strengthen police preparedness in the districts. Last autumn, party leader Trygve Slagsvold Vedum presented a three-year plan to step up. The first point in the plan is to open or reopen 20 police stations and police stations this year. And after a quarter, he wants to open even more. Many sheriff’s offices were closed in connection with the police reform in 2016. To find out where this should be, the Ministry of Justice has asked all the country’s municipalities how they want to strengthen the police with them. Many SP mayors in the country have demanded to be allowed to reopen the office in say municipality, but not in Nord-Gudbrandsdal. Police reform The local police reform was adopted by the Storting in June 2015. The Conservatives, the Greens, the Liberals, the Christian Democrats and the Labor Party took part in the settlement. 27 police districts were cut to 12. The number of places of service was reduced from 340 to 217. At least 90 per cent of the inhabitants of a police district shall have a maximum of 45 minutes driving time to the nearest sheriff’s office or police station. It must be possible for at least one day a week to have services performed by the police outside office hours. Requirement for response time for ordinary events. 95 percent of all calls to 112 must be answered within 20 seconds. Web solutions for the public and more mobile technology. Close and close cooperation with the municipalities and broader rescue and emergency cooperation. The proposed amendment is based, among other things, on a police analysis in 2013 of how the police should be organized in the future. The analysis was commissioned after the harsh criticism of the police in the July 22 commission’s report. (Source: POD, NTB) Strengthening those who are Mayor Mariann Skotte in Lesja is clear that the time is not right to invest in more offices. – We want first and foremost to strengthen the police stations we have. We fear that resources will be obtained from them, to establish an office in Vågå, says Skotte. It is the Chief of Police in the Interior who proposed an office there, early in the process. Together with the rest of the Nord-Gudbrandsdal Intermunicipal Council, Scots have stated their views in a consultation response to the Minister of Justice. Four of the mayors come from Sp. First and foremost, they want more police, not new offices. In Nord-Gudbrandsdal, there are police in three places today. At Otta, in Lom and at Dombås. They have a shift in collaboration with Midt-Gudbrandsdal. This is how they ensure that there are people on duty around the clock. LOYAL: Mayor Harald Sve Bjørndal in Vågå says he would like to have a police station in his municipality, but he is loyal to his mayoral colleagues who first and foremost want to strengthen the service cities that are now. Photo: Even Lusæter / news The police arrive too late The mayor of Vågå, Harald Sve Bjørndal (Bygdalista) says it has been a problem that it takes too long for the police to reach events. There are long distances, and it is often the fire and rescue service that first arrives at a crime scene. – If the police preparedness gets better by opening an office in Vågå, we would like that, says Sve Bjørndal. But he still stands behind his mayoral colleagues that the most important thing now is to strengthen preparedness with more people. Will listen State Secretary Erik Idsøe in the Ministry of Justice says that they will create service centers in dialogue with the municipalities and police districts. And that it is a precondition that it should happen in places where there is a local desire for it. At the same time, there must be special geographical reasons for it, or that the crime picture is such that they need it. Now the ministry will first go through all the consultation responses, before the Minister of Justice presents his plan to strengthen the police throughout the country. WILL TAKE TIME: State Secretary Erik Idsøe in the Ministry of Justice says they will decide where there will be new police stations only this autumn. Ikkje Vågå on the list Police Chief in the Inland, Johan Brekke, proposed early in the process to open the police station in Vågå. And a police station at the Swedish border, at Magnormoen in Eidskog. It opens on July 1. – I suggested Vågå because there are long distances in that part of the Inland and that we have partly had a problem with too long a response time here, says Brekke. That is, the time it takes from an emergency incident being notified, until the police arrive in the city. CHANGED: Police Chief Johan Brekke in the Inland now does not propose a new police station in the Inland. But he would like to have more police officers on duty. Photo: Per Magnussen / news But after a meeting with the mayors of Nord-Gudbrandsdal, Brekke writes that the most important thing for the Innlandet police district is to strengthen the police as it is organized now. Creating a new office is expensive and it must have between 4 and 6 police officers with it, writes Brekke. And he emphasizes that these people must not be taken from other places of service. Does he want a police station In the hinterland, the municipalities of Engerdal, Sør-Odal and Stange have asked for a new police station in their consultation responses to the Ministry of Justice. Nes municipality in Viken will have an office with 12 employees in Årnes. And in Trøndelag, both Meråker and Flatanger and Os want police stations. You can read the question from the Minister of Justice and the consultation response from the municipalities here.
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