Police officer accepts fine for video deletion in the Kongsberg police violence case – news Oslo and Viken – Local news, TV and radio

A few days ago, the Bureau of Police Affairs gave a police officer a summons for misconduct, after he deleted a video from the mobile phone of an arrested person. Another police officer has been charged with violence after beating two young men with a fist and baton in Kongsberg on the night of Sunday 30 October. One of the men at the scene filmed the incident, but had the video deleted by a police officer at the scene. The police officer who deleted the video has been fined NOK 12,000. He has now adopted this. Thinks the punishment is too lenient – It sends a signal to other police officers that it is not so dangerous to delete video material, says Marius Stormo. The police seized his mobile phone and deleted the video he filmed when his friend Kevin Simensen was beaten by a police officer who has been charged with violence. Marius Stormo believes the policeman’s punishment is too lenient. Photo: Eirik Sørenmo Påsche / news Stormo thinks the punishment is unfair because it is about evidence that has been deleted. Therefore, he believes it is understandable that the police officer accepts the fine. He points out that the fine of NOK 12,000 is on the same level as driving too fast. The police officer: – Stupid of me The police officer wrote a report after the incident, which the Bureau has also used in its decision on the case. “In retrospect, it was stupid of me to delete this film, but the idea of ​​deleting it was to maintain the privacy of the accused. There are good surveillance cameras at Esso which most likely captured all/parts of the incident,” writes the police officer. The police officer has explained that the deletion took place in the heat of battle, according to the Bureau: “It was not his intention to delete evidence in a potential criminal case, or to delete the film to cover up the police intervention against V6 (one of the accused men) On-site. There was a lot of adrenaline and he wasn’t thinking clearly, but he realized almost as soon as the adrenaline had subsided that it was a very stupid thing to do. That was also why he wrote about it in his report.”



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