Gjørv Report

The Gjørv Report (Gjørv-rapporten or NOU 2012: 14, Rapport fra 22. juli-kommisjonen) is a report that was ordered by Norway's parliament, as a consequence of the 2011 Oslo bombing and the following Utøya massacre. The report was delivered to Norway's prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, on 13 August 2012, one year after the establishment of the "22 July" fact finding commission headed by Alexandra Bech Gjørv. The report found that the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) were aware of Anders Behring Breivik purchasing material components that could be used to produce a bomb, however, intelligence services failed to add Breivik to a watch list to further monitor his activities, the report also cites a "lack of preparedness" by the Norwegian Police Service to locate and mobilize adequate transportation leading to a response time delay for police and rescue operations attempting to gain access to Utøya Island. It also concluded that Anders Breivik could have been prevented from carrying out the Utøya massacre had police adequately responded to a call from a witness identifying Breivik as the suspect of the Oslo bombing twenty minutes prior to the first calls of a mass casualty shooting occurring on Utøya Island.

The Gjørv Report has 482 pages and was compiled by a ten-person commission which was chaired by lawyer and former Statoil ASA executive Alexandra Bech Gjørv and also included the former head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, academics, executives as well as police officials from neighboring Denmark and Finland. The report used data from global positioning systems (GPS), photos, film and audio files in addition to reports and interviews.