Norway

Special jails for foreign criminals

The Conservative Party (Høyre) wants foreign criminals convicted in Norway to serve their sentence in special prison blocks, with limited facilities and without the usual on-the-job training.

Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg said this as she presented the party's own plan for combating crime to the party's Central Committee.

The plan calls for an extra 2000 police officers in place before 2015, and an average of two policemen for every 1000 citizens well before 2020.

The party also wants to establish a special national policeforce led by the National Bureau of Crime Investigation (Kripos), dedicated to fighting organized crime.

Source: NRK/Norway Post