What was initially intended as an educational and exciting police exercise, became a very unpleasant situation for the five young people who participated as markers.
Dagbladet can today report that last week a police exercise was arranged at Majorstua police station, under the auspices of the Royal Police Escort, where five 16-year-olds participated as markers.
There, the young people have been subjected to several exercises which they were extremely shaken by.
All the young people are students at Holtet upper secondary school in Oslo. Dagbladet has chosen to anonymize the school line for the sake of the young people involved.
– I can not go into details about what happened at the exercise. The students have been exposed to exercises with torque training that are far above what we consider acceptable.
This is what the principal at Holtet upper secondary school, Kathrine Reine, tells Dagbladet.
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– When we see what kind of exercise this has been, we are quite shocked, says the principal.
Reine does not want to go into details about what happened during the police exercise, but Dagbladet has received information from another source who knows what happened during the exercise. Dagbladet knows the identity of the source, but he wants to remain anonymous.
All of the five young people have been to the emergency room to document injuries they have suffered during the exercise.
The young people are said to have received bruises, wounds and stab wounds from needles, according to Dagbladet.
– All injuries are registered with the emergency room, and the school also follows up with an injury report, says Reine.
She states that the school has been in dialogue with the students and their parents, and she tells Dagbladet that the students are very affected by what they have been exposed to.
– The young people are perceived as shaken and affected.
SHOCKED: Principal Kathrine Reine at Holtet upper secondary school says that the young people have been shaken after the incident. Photo: Private
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Report the case
The exercise was not arranged as an initiative from the school, but the students were still given a valid absence to participate in this exercise.
In retrospect, Dagbladet is aware that several of those involved have reported the case.
– We have decided to report the case. The school will report the Royal Police Escort, Reine told Dagbladet on Friday morning.
She states that the school reported the case on Friday.
Dagbladet has been in contact with the special unit, which does not wish to comment on the case at this time.
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– We can neither confirm nor deny that we have received reports in this case out of duty of confidentiality, says Alexander Fotland Iversen, head of prosecution investigation in the Bureau of Investigation, to Dagbladet.
The police are sorry
Reitan says that the police, the school, the young people and the parents have been in a close dialogue after the exercise.
– They have apologized for the incidents and we will have a meeting with the police, parents and students this week, the principal says.
She states that the police write in the apology that they have not taken sufficient account of their young age.
– In the coming days, we will follow up the students and strive for them to receive sufficient help through the school health service. The aim of the meeting with the police is to help the young people also get the chance to re-establish a good relationship with the police.
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In an e-mail to Dagbladet, section leader Roy Hagen-Larsen at the Royal Police Escort, which is part of the Oslo police district, admits that the police have not behaved as they should.
– Oslo Police District thinks it is very sad that the students had a bad experience of the training. The idea was that this should be inspiring, exciting and provide learning benefits for both parties. Here we have not behaved as we should, writes Hagen-Larsen.
– SORRY: Section leader Roy Hagen-Larsen at the Royal Police Escort, which is part of the Oslo police district, tells Dagbladet that the police have not behaved as they should during the police exercise. Photo: Frank Karlsen / Dagbladet
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He informs that the police have asked to meet the students and their parents to explain and apologize for the incident directly in front of them.
– Oslo police district has already sent a letter to the students and their relatives, as well as the school, and strongly regrets the experience the five students had as markers for police medic training, Hagen-Larsen writes to Dagbladet.
He explains that the police have used the same training methods on the young people as they usually do with other markers from, among others, the Police Academy, the first-time service and the ambulance service.
– It was professionally justified that we wanted to train with young people, but we see that we did not take sufficient account of the markers’ young age, writes the section leader.
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He admits that more and better information and explanations should have been given in advance of the exercises, so that the markers understood in as much detail as possible what was going to happen along the way.
– In addition, a clearer consent should have been obtained in advance. We clearly see that obtaining consent along the way does not work for such a young group of markers, he writes.
Hagen-Larsen says that the police are aware that the students have sought health after the exercises, and he says that they are happy that they received help.
– We have expressed our gratitude that the students have subsequently so clearly stated about the incident, Oslo Police District will change routines and guidelines so that something like this does not happen again, he writes.
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