[6], The police can trace its origins to 1778 when the first traces of industry started to appear. Or is it? Police affairs in Iceland are the responsibility of the Ministry of Justice and are administered by the Office of the . [19][20][21], The police academy was shut down as of 30 September 2016 and the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture has decided to hand the responsibility of training future police officers to University of Akureyri (Icelandic: Hsklinn Akureyri). When the Nordic EU members Denmark, Sweden and Finland applied to join the Schengen cooperation, Norway and Iceland also had to enter into an agreement with the Schengen countries so that the Nordic Passport Union could be retained. Furthermore, it's unclear whether these numbers have changed significantly since 2013, which is the most recent year for which the Bureau of Justice Statistics has data. The Defence ActNo 34/2008 applies to the administration of defence matters within Icelandic territory as well as the co-operation and relations of Icelandic state authorities with foreign states, military authorities and international security and defence organisations. Initially tear gas was used in an attempt to subdue the gunman,[13] a 59-year-old man, but it failed to affect him. Member states are Estonia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden, while Iceland holds an observer status. However, commendable and methodologically rigorous efforts have been undertaken to create an unofficial database, notably by the Fatal Encounters website, which has been used as a data source in academic research. This reckoning is supported by another robust source, the Guardian's database of police use of deadly force for 2015 and 2016, which tallied 1,146 and 1,093 deaths in 2015 and 2016, respectively. The Bureau of Justice Statistics/U.S. "Norwegian Police Involved in Just Fourth Fatal Shooting in 14 Years." The current police district division is stipulated by the Regulation on Police Districts of the Police Commissioner which was signed 4 December 2014 by Prime Minister Sigmundur Dav Gunnlaugsson who acted as Minister of Justice temporarily within the Ministry of the Interior due to a scandal.
