Beate Gangås (born 24 April 1963) is a Norwegian police officer and civil servant. In 2019, she was appointed Oslo Chief of Police. She was born in

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. In her younger days she played football for

. She graduated from the

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with the cand.jur. degree in 1991. She worked for the Norwegian Directorate for Health from 1991 to 1992, served as a police prosecutor in Vest-Finnmark in 1992 before being hired in the

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police. From 2001 to 2006 she worked in the

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. In 2006 she was appointed as the

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, a merger between the Centre for Equality, the Equality Ombud and the Centre Against Ethnic Discrimination. She became the

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in Østfold Police District in 2010, and in

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in 2019. In October 2022 she was appointed to director of the

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. Openly lesbian, she became the first LGBT police chief in Norway.

References

1963 births Living people People from Asker Norwegian women's footballers Asker Fotball (women) players University of Oslo alumni Norwegian police officers Directors of government agencies of Norway Ombudsmen in Norway Norwegian LGBT people 21st-century LGBT people Women's association footballers not categorized by position Sportspeople from Viken (county) {{law-enforcement-bio-stub