The two police officers arrived in Bislett on November 9 last year after the police were notified of a threatening man with a knife.
The knife drama ended with 33-year-old Rustam Louis Foss being shot by the police. He later died of his injuries.
Since the incident, the two officials have had the status of suspects in the case.
The special unit for police matters has investigated whether these did something wrong to the service.
The special unit’s conclusion
The investigation shows that the police fired a total of six shots. First one shot alone, then another two seconds later, also four in quick succession. Five of the shots hit Foss in the upper body.
The special unit believes that the police were in an emergency situation when the shots were fired, and that the use of firearms was necessary and justifiable.
The prosecution against both officials has therefore been dropped as no criminal offense is considered proven, it is stated in the decision of the Bureau.
In this police car sat the two officers.
Photo: Runar Henriksen Jørstad Photo: Runar Henriksen Jørstad
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Everything was over in minutes
According to the investigation, it took about one minute and thirty seconds from the patrol reporting on call that a man was standing outside the police car with a knife, until one of the police officers reported that they had shot the man.
The entire course of events lasted between two and three minutes.
The police officer who was in the driver’s seat has explained to the Special Unit that she thought that her colleague would be killed if she did not kill the man herself.
She took out her pistol and fired two shots. When the man did not stop, she fired several shots, until the weapon was empty.
The officer in the passenger seat has explained that he fired one or two shots at the man during the attack.
One of the shots fired hit the officer in the passenger seat in the foot. The special unit believes this happened as he tried to kick the man out of the car. The shot probably passed through his foot before hitting the man.
The special unit has also questioned five witnesses. Three people who were in apartments in Therese Street and who saw the situation, as well as two people who were random passers-by on the street.
Drove on with police car
The incident happened on November 9 at 9 o’clock in the morning. Witnesses described, among other things, that a man ran with a knife after a woman.
Police used the service car to run over the perpetrator twice. Both times he got to his feet.
A video from the scene showed that the police car was used to gain control of the man by pushing him against a house wall.
But he got away, opened the door of the police car and stabbed one of the police officers with the knife.
Police chief Johan Fredriksen has previously described what happened, as «A battle of life and death».
The police officer then fired several shots at the man.
He later died of his injuries.
Under psychiatric treatment
In December 2020, the 33-year-old was sentenced to compulsory mental health care. Among other things, he was convicted of having stabbed a person in the back at Ankerbrua in June 2019.
The man was therefore undergoing psychiatric treatment in the health service.
He was out on one short-term leave when the incident at Bislett happened.
The police officer who was attacked with a knife ended up hospital with extensive injuries after the incident. Just before Christmas, he was discharged from hospital.
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