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A record number of foreign citizens were deported from Norway last year, after country's police stepped up the use of deportation as a way of fighting crime.
Some 5,198 foreign citizens were expelled from the country in 2013, an increase of 31 percent since 2012, when 3,958 people were deported.
"It is the highest number we've had ever," Frode Forfang, head of the Directorate of Immigration (UDI), told NRK. "We believe that one reason for the increase is that the police have become more conscious of using deportation as a tool to fight crime."