On 17 August, Oystein Mäland, Norway's chief police officer, filed a letter of resignation. The reason for this was the results of the investigation of the terrorist events that took place a year ago in the capital of this country and on the island of Utoya.
In July 2011, a resident of Norway, Anders Breivik, staged two terrorist attacks at once, which killed 77 people. 24 people were seriously injured then. The perpetrator of the crime was immediately detained, and an investigation was immediately launched into the incident.
For almost a year, 750 experts have been working to find out the causes of the tragedy. A huge number of claims were made to the Norwegian special services, which in this situation acted more slowly than they should have. According to the chairman of the independent investigating commission, both attacks could have been prevented if the security forces worked well together.
The official report emphasizes that police officers left unnoticed the received signal about "a man dressed in 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 to the rescue, losing a lot of time, which at that moment literally went by seconds.
Intelligence has also been heavily criticized by experts. According to their version, Breivik could have been neutralized much earlier if the organization responsible for the safety of Norwegian residents had a verified methodology that could be used. Now the ex-police chief 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.
Terrorist Anders Breivik has fully confessed to the crimes. At the same time, he does not consider himself guilty and at the trial on August 24 said that he would do it again. Experts' data on the sanity of the offender differ, however, this did not prevent the court from applying the death penalty in Norway to Breivik - 21 years in prison.
