Norwegian police will no longer carry guns on patrol after terror alert lowered

Armed police patrol at the Central railway station because of a possible terror attack by jihadits returning from Syria on July 25, 2014 the day after Norway stepped up security.

STAVANGER, Norway – Norwegian police are laying down their arms.

After carrying guns for about a year, police in the Nordic country will go back to patrolling the streets unarmed next week, the National Police Directorate said Friday.

Norwegian police were armed as a temporary measure after the country’s security service raised the terror alert level.

It has since been downgraded and the police directorate said “there are no grounds to continue the temporary armament.”

It said police will go back to keeping firearms locked in their patrol cars.

Norway has debated the preparedness of its police force to deal with terrorists since a horrific attack in July 2011, when a single anti-Muslim gunman slaughtered 69 people on a summer youth retreat after killing eight people in a car bombing in Oslo.

Hang a Gun Free zone on this country.

After the Paris attack they may just change their minds on this idea.

The regular police here in Main Land China do not carry guns either.. special police have them, but those guys are few and far between.

They have Chinese Muslims (they have the terrorist problem here too), Last year 5 went into the main train station one province over from where I am working and they stabbed over 100 people ( killing about 30), be for the police with actual guns arrived to shoot a few. The police on sight were basically useless.

The world is not as it was even 10 years ago. In my opinion, Police should be armed... because the bad guys certainly are.

That screeching sound your hear is the Norwegian disarmament bus doing a u-turn after the events in Paris.

I'm thinking the cops may just want to hold onto their guns a tad longer.