the Armed forces and the police is in open violation of the responsibility to combat terrorist attacks at sea. The great annual fellesøvelsen Gemini had in years is divided in two separate exercises.
A variety of people from both the Armed forces and the police have not managed to solve this 200 year old battle, which inherently is about the limits for Military use of force against own citizens.
This has been the Norwegian sikkerhetsmyndigheters nightmare in many decades: How to be a terrorist attack against the oil sector in the north Sea could be combated most effectively, and who should do this job?
Since the early 1980s the chief of police had the overall responsibility, while the Defense has trained to do the operational work at sea, with special soldiers, aircraft, helicopters and vessels.
In a recent report from the Røksund-selection vil group’s majority give the responsibility for all counter terrorism offshore for the Norwegian Armed forces.
Will allocate special soldiers
They suggest to create a separate platoon with soldiers from the Forsvarets Spesialkommando in antiterrorberedskap on FSK’s base Vealøs in Horten municipality. The task will be to strike at the terrorist attacks against oil installations and ships in speed.
the Minority, the police’s two representatives on the committee, insists that the local superintendent shall continue to be in the lead if terror affects oil installations or vessels in speed, in line with the new statutory provision of Defence assistance to the police.
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Regrettable
It is regrettable that we failed to agree. We worked a long time to get to a compromise, but at this point we were unlucky, ” says Arne Røksund, the ex-admiral who led the working group, to VG.
Here you can read the full report from the Røksund-selection.
Now, it is up to the minister of justice Anders Anundsen (the progress party) and defence minister Ine Eriksen Søreide (H) to agree on how the terrorist attack at sea to be fought.
We came up with three options: A clean police responsible for counter terrorism at sea, where the Norwegian Armed forces should take responsibility, and an intermediate solution that clarifies that it is the Defense that has the greatest resources, the ships, the planes and helicopters that must be used, but that the superintendent has the authority to stop an operation along the way, ” explains Arne Røksund.
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In the report describes the Røksund-selection what they perceive is the core of the conflict: “That the police have the principal and overall responsibility for maritime kontraterror, at the same time as the Armed forces have traditionally had this as a special mission”, with “significantly larger and better capacity to solve particularly demanding missions”.
But in reality, the Armed forces and the police never managed to allocate this responsibility:
Revirkamp and rivalry
“On the contrary, it is the majority the impression that it long has been going on revirkamp and rivalry around the maritime kontraterror, and that this inflamed the situation also has had an unfortunate trickle-down effect of on the relationship between the justice sector and the defence sector more generally, the” type selection in the report.
the standoff has paralyzed the so-called Gemini-exercises, which have been the sectors ‘ common arena in order to train the practical in the instruction of Military assistance to the police.
Røksund-the committee writes that it “in many years has been much disagreement about how maritime kontraterroroperasjoner shall be planned and conducted, what units will be and be trained for this”, and who should lead operations.
Hone each of the
According to the nyhetsnettstedet aldrimer.no, it went 28 hours from the exercise Gemini 2015 was set in motion, and to the police beredskapstropp “Participate” managed to take on board a supply boat in the Barents sea, where “militant environmentalists” threatened to kill the hostages.
the Lack of transport aircraft and the available helicopters, meant that it also took many hours before the Norwegian special soldiers came to the practice area for terrorøvelsen.
Røksund-the report reveals that police and the defense far on the way has given up to practice together after the Gemini 2015:
Up to 2015 participated in both the police and defence in Gemini-the exercises, but from 2016 it introduced two exercises, one for police and one for the Defense.
Arne Røksund says that the proposal to create a dedicated squad of FSK-soldiers in readiness for maritime kontraterror, does not mean that the police beredskapstropp be permanent on the land:
– No, the special forces and has built up a solid expertise, and we don’t want to throw this baby out with the bath water. They should retain this competence, but in our proposal is that the Defense should have the primary responsibility. It is economically most sensible to prevent that we build up the double capacities, says Røksund.
200-year-old conflict
Magnus Håkenstad, historian and researcher at the Institute for defence studies, says that this is a 200-year-old conflict about the limits of Military exercise of power in peacetime:
It has always been a grey area between the Armed forces and the police, with tasks that formally belong to the police, but that they are not able to solve entirely on your own. Now comes this conflict back up in the day, ” says Håkenstad to VG.
He says that the Armed special responsibility to combat possible terrorist attacks against the oil platforms, was the background for the establishment of Forsvarets Spesialkommando in the 80′s.
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Sitting on a pile
the Problem is that the defence and justice sector do not speak very well together. They sit on each pile and make their own long-term plans without having contact with each other. A large stridstema is who shall have the first right of refusal to the helicopters owned by the department of Justice, but operated by the Armed forces, ” says Ståle Ulriksen, senior researcher at NUPI and teacher at the naval academy.
He would rather have a parent kriseledelse subject to the prime minister directly, where people from defence, police, health and others are present, and using the personnel and resources that are best suited to solve the crisis.
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Regrettable
Ap-the leader Hadia May, who also leads the Parliamentary justiskomité, says that there has been a bipartisan desire that the police and the defence has more contact and practice more together:
“at the same time, I have heard the same as the report describes: That it can occur revirkamper and annotations of who is best suited on the field. When the report at the same time claim that it spills over on the relationship between them in general, I see reason to look more closely at this”, she writes in a text message to VG.
Anders Werp (H) is the deputy chair of the justice committee, and has noted dissensen in Røksund-selection:
I say that they failed to resolve this after each so well-known conflict, and I think that is regrettable. Thus, the matter must be resolved at political level between the ministry of justice and defence, says Werp to VG.
Neither the ministry of Defence or Military operational headquarters (FOH), which has the responsibility for the exercise Gemini, could Monday evening to comment on this matter.
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