The right man for the job: Straight from the asylum:
(News & Views from Norway/thanks to coffee)
Øystein Mæland, tapped late last week to be Norway’s new chief of police, is a psychiatrist and Labour Party veteran who’s held a long list of leadership roles both in and out of politics. He’s also married to a man and the couple is expecting their second child this fall, with the help of a surrogate mother in California.
Not exactly the most conventional choice to lead 12,000 police officers nationwide, but Mæland has the support of the police officers’ union and a proven track record of tackling difficult tasks.
He has, for example, been a state secretary in the Justice Ministry, a member of the Oslo City Council and handled tough immigration issues in the 1990s. The 51-year-old doctor most recently has headed the main psychiatric clinic at Norway’s largest hospital, UllevÃ¥l in Oslo. In addition to finishing medical school, he studied criminology as an undergraduate and worked as a doctor at one of Norway’s biggest prisons.
“There hasn’t been any political management of this process at all. But Norway is a small country and folks know one another.” (source)
Family Fair/Sly Stone
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Bizarre. Maybe an insight into the lunatic asylum that Norway has obviously become…
Will he be going on paternity, or maternity leave when the child is born?
At least he has an education – that doesn’t go for most american “experts”.