On August 17, Austin Maland, Norway's chief police officer, resigned. The reason for this was the results of the investigation of the terrorist events that occurred a year ago in the capital of this country and on the island of Utoya.
In July 2011, a resident of Norway, Anders Breivik, immediately staged two terrorist attacks that killed 77 people. Serious injuries were then sustained by 24 people. The person responsible for the crime was immediately detained, and an investigation was immediately launched.
For almost a year, 750 experts worked to find out the causes of the tragedy. A huge number of claims were made to the special services of Norway, which in this situation acted more slowly than they should have. According to the chairman of the independent commission involved in the investigation, it would be possible to prevent both terrorist attacks with the coordinated interaction of power structures.
The official report emphasizes that police officers went unnoticed by the received signal about "a man dressed in a police uniform", which led to a sad outcome. The commission was greatly surprised by the fact that the police first went down the wrong path, having lost a lot of time, which at that moment literally went for seconds.
Intelligence has also been heavily criticized by experts. According to their version, Breivik could be neutralized much earlier if the organization responsible for the safety of the inhabitants of Norway had a well-established methodology by which it could act. Now, the ex-chief of police Maland agreed with all the charges and admitted that there were mistakes in the actions of his subordinates that could have been avoided. In recognition of his own guilt, he resigned.
The terrorist Anders Breivik fully confessed to the crimes committed. At the same time, he does not consider himself guilty and at the trial on August 24 stated that he would have done it again. The data of experts on the criminal sanity differ, however, this did not prevent the court from applying the highest punishment in Breivik in Norway - 21 years in prison.
