What does this say about the Police Forces in Norway?

-"The shooting spree at a youth camp lasted an hour and a half as Norwegian police struggled to access the camp by boat, police officials say at a news conference."



Nothing good - that is for sureIt says to me that police in pacifistic countries like Norway may be trained, but they're woefully unprepared.The camp was located on an island, one hours drive away. So, they had to drive for one hour and then take a boat for 10 to 15 minutes to the island. And then take 10 to 15 minutes to access the situation before deciding on a course of action. In addition to that, they were also dealing with a massive explosion of the government building in Oslo.



Under the circumstances, I think the police force handled the situation remarkably. There were almost 800 campers on the island. There could have been a much higher number of deaths.
Any helicopter trying to land would have been a target.



In hindsight I am sure people will think about how things could have been done differently.



It didn't help that the Norwegian police don't carry guns. There are advantages and disadvantages of that policy. We have just seen the disadvantages.
Norway is a peaceful country that does not often have to deal with maniacal behavior that is so murderous and on a scale such as this event.

Certainly they will now have to spend great resources to train their police and emergency services to handle future terror disasters.

The police are not evil because they were not prepared for this, the people who did it are evil.
Maybe the camp was miles away from the nearest town. That happens. There are day camps that are deep in the woods and miles away from cities. I've been in one of them when i was a kid. It took roughly a good hour to drive to that camp. Just because it was far away doesn't mean the police are incompetent in doing their job.
That they're as Good as they are ANYwhere. Because NOTHING can stop a Maniac -on a killing Spree. :(
Shut up, jerk.



The youth camp was on an island and emergency services were already struggling to deal with bombings earlier in Oslo.
Nobody knows yet what happened, even the Sun. Their reputation on facts has gone downhill over the last few weeks in many peoples minds. Why not wait until the police and the government release the true facts!
Don't blame the police force......



What could we say about the US defense after 9/11, four plays were hijacked and flown around your own skies over a 2 hour span and none of those aircraft were intercepted.