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发帖数: 10345 | 1 Norway disarms its police officers
Oslo (AFP) - Norway's police, who have been authorised to carry firearms for
the past year due to a heightened threat of Islamist attacks, will be
unarmed again now that the threat level has been lowered, police said Friday.
National police chief Odd Reidar Humlegard told reporters the measure would
take effect on November 17.
The country's 6,000 uniformed police officers will "have to keep their
weapons locked in their patrol cars like they did previously," he said.
Norwegian police were authorised to carry their service weapons on their
belts in November 2014 after the country's intelligence service PST raised
the threat level because of the risk of an attack.
A year later, the PST said arrests in Jihadist circles and the departure of
radicalised militants to the Middle East had significantly reduced the
likelihood of an attack and reduced the threat level at the end of October.
Norway's police union, most of whose members want to be allowed to carry
their service weapons, called the new directive "a very bad decision."
"The temporary arming (of police) responded to an extraordinary situation.
As things stand now, our laws do not allow for systematic arming," Humlegard
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