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KrF and Frp want the police to once again hunt down heavy drug addicts. No one should listen to the two penitents.
ILLEGAL PRACTICE: Member of the Storting Kjell Ingolf Ropstad will reintroduce an illegal practice. Photo: Lise Åserud / NTB
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Manager: This is an editorial from Dagbladet, and expresses the newspaper’s views. Dagbladet’s political editor is responsible for the editorial.
Published
Monday, June 13, 2022 – 08:56
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When KrF and Frp stand together (and alone) about a proposal, there is rarely anything sensible we have in store.
This weekend, penal comrades Kjell Ingolf Ropstad (KrF) and Per-Willy Amundsen (Frp) told NRK that they want to turn back time. They want to the police will again start searching for heavy drug addicts. This is despite the fact that the Supreme Court in a recent ruling has ruled that they should not be punished for the use and possession of small amounts of drugs.
In May, the Attorney General sent out a letter to all the country’s police districts that they will no longer spend a lot of resources on searching heavy drug addicts. The background for that was the mentioned judgment in the Supreme Court.
Not everyone likes that development. FRP and KrF believe it makes the police less equipped to catch criminals and fight crime.
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Their only problem is that large parts of the police’s handling of drug addicts has simply been illegal.
Earlier this year, the Attorney General struck fixed that it has been “Systematic errors and deficiencies in the police’s handling of coercive drug use in minor drug cases”.
For many years, the police have gone too far in checking mobile phones, digging in pockets and searching people’s houses without them being allowed to do so.
The director of police and the government have shown little willingness to clean up the illegal practice. Then the Attorney General had to take the case into his own hands.
KrF and Frp try to create an impression that this is political activism from the Attorney General. It is not. It is about the police having to follow the law and something as obvious as that drug addicts must also have legal certainty.
In the war on drugs, most things should be allowed if we are to believe the two. “Amundsen believes that the police, for example, must be able to check telephones and find out who the person bought the drug from,” writes NRK. This is how he wants to make tired drug addicts the police’s tool for catching criminal culprits. It is not, and should not be, law. The police should find culprits without breaking the law.
KrF and Frp will not only reintroduce an unfortunate practice. They want to introduce a practice that is much stricter than what the Attorney General believes is illegal.
Drug addicts also have rights. The government should close its ears to the cries from KrF and Frp. Otherwise, they lose the little bit of credibility they have left in the drug policy.
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