Don't pretend to laugh when you are angry. Of course you're right police are not great here either, just recently there was a case with punitive cavity searches

Don't pretend to laugh when you are angry. Of course you're right police are not great here either, just recently there was a case with punitive cavity searches etc. Police are also complaining about harassment online and ostracism offline (gee, I wonder why?) But the fact that they are complaining about these things shows they're not quite as unrestricted as police in other parts of the world. Lying is one of the areas there is a difference: Norwegian police aren't allowed to e.g. lie to a suspect that his friend has already confessed. Which isn't to say they won't, but cases can get thrown out over it. So it's a stretch to think that the police are lying to the public about the positive evidence they have. Lying by omission, maybe, perhaps being wrong, hell yes, but making up things out of whole cloth in public in just to gather information would be new ground for Norwegian police.