Lillestrøm (Sørumsand), Rakkestad, Karlsøy, Kvinesdal, Levanger, Nesodden, Sør-Odal, Vaksdal, Åseral and Hemsedal (winter season) will have a police station in 2024. The government announced this on Wednesday 23 August. – We have reached out widely, and many municipalities have reported back to us. Some believe it is too far to the nearest police station, and that the police are not present enough, says Justice and Emergency Services Minister Emilie Enger Mehl (Sp) during the press conference. – We have received a lot of police professional advice. The sum of all the input we have received is the starting point for the decision we have made about these places, she continues. On Wednesday at 12 noon, Justice Minister Emilie Enger Mehl and Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum will hold a press conference at Sørumsand in Lillestrøm municipality. There they presented the new offices. New police office in Agder In Agder, the sheriff’s offices in Åseral and Kvinesdal will be reopened. The mayor of Åseral is very happy with that. – This is good news. I have to pinch myself, says Mayor Inger Lise Lund (Ap). She is particularly happy about the increased presence the police will have in the municipality. – There are large distances here. If accidents happen, the police are more readily available. We have experienced that people call and the police cannot come. Storting representative for Agder Gro Anita Mykjåland (Sp) believes it is the right decision to reopen the service locations. Indre Agder was particularly hard hit by the local police reform, says Mykjåland. – We have seen that the police have become more distant from the people and the district, and this is about people being safe. Then we have to distribute the resources evenly. Against the police’s advice Earlier this year, the government presented a list of nine police offices that will reopen during 2023. On Tuesday, news was able to say that this is happening against the police’s own advice in more than half of the places. – We did not want a new office. Offices and rent tie up resources, which we could rather spend on patrols and investigations, said police chief Nils Kristian Moe in Trøndelag police district about the establishment of the office in Meråker. However, the Government’s decision to open new service stations is supported by the police districts in Oslo, Øst and Møre and Romsdal. The Center Party has long fought for “local police”, and the government agreed in the Hurdal platform to open a total of 20 new police service locations. Earlier this year, it became known that these nine places will have police offices during 2023: Engerdal (Innlandet police district) Hvaler (East police district) – summer season only Meråker (Trøndelag police district) Oslo (Mortensrud in Oslo police district) Salangen (Troms police district) Sandefjord ( Torp Airport in Sør-East police district) Sigdal (South-East police district) Steigen (Nordland police district) Stranda (Geiranger in Møre and Romsdal police district) – summer season only Magnormo in Innlandet police district was established in 2022, according to a press release. Thus, all 20 places are now known.
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