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Policing police crime: the case of criminals in the Norwegian police

There seems to be a tendency to consider police crime as a result of bad practice, lack of resources or mismanagement, rather than acts of criminals. However, examples illustrate that criminal acts are intentionally carried out by police officers on duty. For example, a 30-year-old female police officer in Norway used her computer access in the police department to change the addresses of her personal enemies in public systems, which represents a serious kind of document crime. Unauthorised disclosure of confidential information occurred in two out of ten criminal police cases in Norwegian cou…