Knut Ragnar Mikkelsen (born 18 March 1951) is a Norwegian police chief. He was born in

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, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree. He was a police superintendent in the

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police from 1981 to 1988, and worked as police inspector from 1990 to 1997. From 1 November to 31 December 1994 he was acting chief of police of

. He was the chief of police of

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from 1997 to 2001, and in 2001 he became assisting director of the

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1951 births Living people People from Nome, Norway People from Lunde, Telemark Norwegian police chiefs {{Norway-bio-stub