ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the organizational practices of the Norwegian police and military in terms of communication, power, identity, and ethics, which are formulations of social objects: generalized and particularized social behaviour. The communication patterns of the juridical-bureaucratic practices were similar in the police case and the military case. In the context of the two cases, there are two major organizational practices in the police and the military: the operational and the bureaucratic. The chapter focuses on the differences between the two practices and the direct impact of the differences in the specific events. The communication patterns of the juridical-bureaucratic practices were similar in the police case and the military case. In the military case, written orders were processed after the actions had taken place. The political bureaucrats in the two cases acted differently, partly due to the different ways they are formally organized. Power relations differed in the two cases.
