The suggested measures to help reduce begging may lead to more aggression between the police and the Gypsies, warns researcher Ada Engebrigtsen at NOVA, a Norwegian institute for social research.
The government has suggested to let the municipalities ban begging at certain times and in specific places in order to reduce the large amount of Gypsies who travel to Norway.
Engebrigsten, however, thinks that the government's suggestions will lead to increased conflict and aggression between the beggars and police, and that police forces will have to use even more resources to follow them around.
Back in April, Minister of Justice Grete Faremo suggested to limit the times and places where begging should be permitted. She also wants to make it easier to deport citizens from within the EEA.
"We implement the same measures that are used in other countries," says Faremo in response to Engebrigtsen. She explains that the goal of the new measures is to solve the challenges the police currently have related to order and control, which should have the opposite effect of what the researcher is concerned of.
Meanwhile, Engebrigtsen says that these people groups are used to playing "cat and mouse" with the government, and that trying to control them will be a difficult task. Instead, she thinks the government should give more money to volunteers organizations and simply accept the begging.
(NRK)
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