Oslo Police District

Oslo Police District
Agency overview
Legal personality Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdiction* Police district of Oslo in the capital city of , Norway
General nature
Operational structure
Overviewed by National Police Directorate
Headquarters Oslo Police Headquarters
Grønnlandsleiret 44
Agency executive Hans Sverre Sjøvold, Chief of Police
Units * Mounted police (Rytterkorpset)[1]
* Emergency Response Unit (Norway)
Facilities
Stations 5
Boats Harbor police
Police helicopters 2 x Eurocopter EC135
Website
https://www.politi.no/oslo
Footnotes
* Divisional agency: Division of the country, over which the agency has usual operational jurisdiction.

Oslo Police District (Norwegian: Oslo politidistrikt) is largest police district in Norway with over 4880 employees, including police officers, police lawyers and civil employees. The district covers 454 square kilometres (175 sq mi) in the capital and serves 590,041 inhabitants (As of April 2010).[2]

Oslo Police District has five police stations in charge of policing duties, including assignments in terms of order, prevention and investigation purposes in the surrounding areas.

The Police Authority also has special sections for the investigation of serious crime. The investigation led formally by police lawyers, belonging to prosecutors.

Serious drug cases and robbery cases are investigated by the Section for organized crime, homicide cases and cases involving sexual crimes investigated by the Division of Violence and sexual crimes, while serious forms of economic crime investigation by the Financial and Environmental Crime Section. Traffic and sea buffet includes Trafikkorpset and Harbor Police and a specialist on criminal offenses related to the capital's traffic by land and sea. The Police is headquartered at Grønlandsleiret 44 at Grønland in Oslo.

Police stations

There are also police offices at several locations, including at Oslo Central Station. Emergency telephone number is ☎ 112, non emergency calls at ☎ 02800 or ☎ (+47)22 66 90 50.[3][4]

Mobility

Oslo Police disposal units that move on land (mounted police in addition to patrols on foot, by car and motorcycle), sea (Harbor Police) and by air (helicopter).

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ↑ List of mounted police units#Norway
  2. ↑ Statistics from University of Oslo in 2012, in Norwegian
  3. ↑ https://www.politi.no/oslo/ The official website in Norwegian
  4. ↑ Contact information, Oslo Police District