The number of police districts was nearly constant from 1894 to 2002 , although a few have been creased and closed . However , the organization in the various police districts varied considerably , especially in the cities . In particular , some cities had their civilian responsibilities taken care of by the municipality . This was confusing for the public , resulting in the police services reorganizing to a homogenous organization during the 1980s , whereby the civil tasks being organized as part of the police stations . Økokrim was established in 1988 and in 1994 the administrative responsibilities for the sheriff 's offices was transferred to police districts . Only once has the order to shoot to kill been issued , during the Torp hostage crisis in 1994 . The police school became a university college in 1993 and introduced a three-year education ; in 1998 a second campus opened in Bodø . Police Reform 2000 was a major restructuring of the police force . First the National Police Directorate was created in 2001 , and from 2003 the number of police districts were reduced from 54 to 27 . The Police Computing and Material Service and the Criminal Investigation Service were both established in 2004 . Ten police officers have been killed in service since 1945 . The Gjørv Report following the 2011 Norway attacks criticized several aspects of the police force , labeling the work as " unacceptable " . National Commissioner Øystein Mæland withdrew following the criticism , in part because an internal report of the attacks had not found any criticism of the police force
Torp hostage crisis
Torp hostage crisis
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