The Norwegian frigate patrolling the Gulf of Aden is expensive and an inefficient way to combat piracy.
“It costs 200 million kroner (33 mill. dollars) to keep the frigate KNM Fridtjov Nansen in the Gulf of Aden for six months. That would have covered the wages of 100.000 policemen in Puntland for the same period,” says researcher Stig Jarle Hansen at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) according to Norwegian daily, Vårt Land.
The Norwegian ship is part of a EU-operation to thwart pirate in the waters off Somalia. It has been on patrol since August.
“There are no simple solutions to the problem of piracy, but it cannot be solved without going in locally to where the pirates come from. The pirates are not the result of the absence of a state, but due to the lack of local institutions such as a police force, “ says Hansen, who has written a report for the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, “Piracy in the greater Gulf of Aden.”
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