When should you report the matter to the police?
Many parents are reluctant to involve the police in something that happens between children. The hesitation is understandable — but your child's legal protection should not be weaker than your own.
Many people are reluctant to go to the police. Parents may think that the police have other, more important, tasks to spend their resources on. Some bullying cases involve violence and threats, and constitute a clear danger to the child’s health. In those cases you should consider a politianmeldelse (reporting the matter to the police).
A check question
If you are in doubt about whether to report the matter, you can put the following check question to yourself; - What would I have done if I had been subjected to this?
For many the answer is obvious: they would have reported the harassment or the violence to the police. If that is the case, a natural follow-up question is; -*should my child’s legal protection be poorer? And if so, why — because it is a child? *
The questions are rhetorical, but telling. In bullying cases, society can show a strange capacity to accept injustice against children that would never have been accepted against adults. That is not how it should be.
Who can be reported?
The family can report to the police children who bully, the parents of children who bully, school staff who do not stop bullying and the owners of schools where bullying takes place.