SUMMARIES OF SELECTED STATEMENTS before operations were normal at both administrative centres, the amount of time it had taken was clearly not acceptable. 2017-15. Guidelines for employees of the police force on acceptance of gifts of gratitude, invitations to externally financed seminars etc. required tightening Following media coverage of a case of a police commissioner accepting free tickets etc., the National Police revised its guidelines for employees of the Danish police force on acceptance of gifts and hospitality. The Ombudsman reviewed the revised guidelines and subsequently asked the National Police to consider whether the guidelines complied with the general principles of administrative law on acceptance of gifts and other benefits. In its reply to the Ombudsman, the National Police stated that the guidelines could leave the impression that employees of the police force were permitted to accept gifts to a greater extent than what follows from the guidance notes on good behaviour in the public sector and a supplementary memorandum on acceptance of gifts, invitations and other benefits. In addition, the National Police informed the Ombudsman that the guidelines would be made more specific in the sense that they would make it clear, among other things, that the overriding principle was that employees of the police force were neither permitted to accept gifts of gratitude from citizens nor to attend externally financed seminars etc. The Ombudsman agreed and on that basis took no further action on the matter. 2017-16. Not adequately substantiated that use of restraint in connection with attempted deportation was necessary for its entire duration In October 2015, an Ombudsman legal case officer monitored an attempted deportation by the National Police of a man, his wife and their young child. During boarding, the deportation was aborted at the request of airline staff as the man and his wife offered resistance. The Ombudsman concluded that the deportation report of the police did not meet the requirements on documentation. The Ombudsman found the documentation to be inadequate because the use of restraint by the police officers 87