ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the use of wiretapping and communication control in Norway. It discusses the use of wiretapping in a criminal case concerning illegal hunting of wolves in Norway. The chapter draws attention to the expanding use of 'exceptional methods' in ordinary crime cases, and underlines some of the challenges facing police services when applying wiretapping in reactive and proactive crime investigations. The use of exceptional investigative methods is concentrated on drugs, as documented by the report of the Control Commission on Communication Control: Approximately 65" of wiretapping in 2015 involved drug crime. The remaining percentage covers a wide range of serious crimes, such as murder and other forms of serious bodily injury, war crimes, organized crime, sexual abuse, serious trafficking, gross corruption, arson, and aggravated robbery. Wiretapping is not an easy procedure and some of the work involved in surveillance is tiresome, time-consuming, gruelling and often dull.
