The Norwegian police have long worked with network patrols.
Region North has now been given a development assignment for network patrolling.
A group of police officers will therefore go to Oslo in a couple of weeks to train.
Then the idea is that they should work together - but online from the places where they are stationed.
Recently, there have been several notable cases of sex crimes against young people online. What can cyber patrol mean for that crime?
- If we increase our presence online, we get better conditions to prevent crime, but also to detect and investigate crime, says John Forsberg.