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Copenhagen Police issue warning after ‘dangerous’ medicine stolen from hospital

Police have issued a warning to the public after a large quantity of various types of medicine was stolen from Bispebjerg Hospital in Copenhagen.

Published: 14 August 2023 16:08 CEST
Copenhagen Police issue warning after 'dangerous' medicine stolen from hospital
File photo. Police have warned the public after a large quantity of powerful medicines were stolen from Bispebjerg Hospital. Photo: Linda Kastrup/Ritzau Scanpix

The types of medicines stolen can be lethal if ingested in large quantities, police said in social media posts following reports of the theft.

Medicinal items stolen include plasters and tablets that include drugs such as morphine, methadone and fentanyl. All three are used for painkilling purposes by hospitals.

Police said that potentially lethal medicines may now be in circulation following the theft.

“It can be very dangerous, potentially lethal in fact if you consume the drugs in excessive quantities,” Copenhagen Police senior officer Martin Finderup said.

A break-in at Bispebjerg Hospital was reported to police early on Monday and is thought to have taken place between 1pm on Sunday and 6:45am Monday.

“We urge the public to contact us as soon as possible if you are offered any of these medicinal preparates,” Finderup said.

“We are investigating the break-in and if any members of the public have information in this regard they should contact us on phone number 114,” he said.

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Danish government backs removing children from gang-connected families

Denmark’s government wants authorities to be able to move children out of families in which parents are gang members and is likely to formalise the measure in parliament.

Published: 9 April 2024 13:38 CEST
Danish government backs removing children from gang-connected families

The justice spokesperson with senior coalition partner the Social Democrats, Bjørn Brandenborg, told regional media TV2 Fyn that he wants authorities to have the power to remove children from their families in certain circumstances where the parents are gang members.

Brandenborg’s comments came on Monday, after Odense Municipality said it had spent 226 million kroner since 2009 on social services for eight specific families with gang connections.

“There is simply a need for us to give the authorities full backing and power to forcibly remove children early so we break the food chain and the children don’t become part of gang circles,” he said.

The measure will be voted on in parliament “within a few weeks”, he said.

An earlier agreement on anti-gang crime measures, which was announced by the government last November, includes provisions for measures of this nature, Brandenborg later confirmed to newswire Ritzau.

“Information [confirming] that close family members of a child or young person have been convicted for gang crime must be included as a significant and element in the municipality’s assessment” of whether an intervention is justified, the agreement states according to Ritzau.

The relevant part of November’s political agreement is expected to be voted on in parliament this month.

READ ALSO: Denmark cracks down on gang crime with extensive new agreement

Last year, Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard told political media Altinget that family relations to a gang member could be a parameter used by authorities when assessing whether a child should be forcibly removed from parents.

In the May 2023 interview, Hummelgaard called the measure a “hard and far-reaching measure”.

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