Oslo Police Director Oeystein Maeland: Communication Systems

Anders Behring Breivik Dept: Presenting the results of an internal evaluation, police officials said the response was slowed down by flaws in communication systems and other mishaps, including the breakdown of an overloaded boat that was carrying a SWAT team to the scene of the shooting on Utoya island, according to The Chronicle Herald. I regret we weren t able to arrest the suspect earlier than we did, Oslo Police Director Oeystein Maeland told reporters and oSLO, Norway Norwegian police admitted for the first time Thursday that they could have responded faster to a youth camp shooting massacre that left 69 people dead in July. Investigators say the confessed shooter, Anders Behring Breivik, set off a bomb in downtown Oslo before he drove to a lake outside the capital and took a small ferry to summer retreat for the governing Labor Party s youth wing on Utoya. He was arrested 1 hour and 20 minutes later, according to the indictment presented last week. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.