Norwegian Prosecuting Authority ( no, Påtalemyndigheten) is a body subordinate to the

Norwegian Council of State The Council of State (Norwegian: ''Statsrådet''), is a formal body composed of the most senior government ministers chosen by the Prime Minister, and functions as the collective decision-making organ constituting the executive branch of the K ...

. This body is responsible for legal prosecutions in Norway. It is divided into three levels. The third level of the Prosecuting Authority is the Police. The first two, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Public Prosecutors, are called "the Higher Prosecuting Authority" ( no, Den høyere påtalemyndighet). Public Prosecutors work on a regional basis, whereas the

Director of Public Prosecutions The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is the office or official charged with the prosecution of criminal offences in several criminal jurisdictions around the world. The title is used mainly in jurisdictions that are or have been members o ...

(Norwegian: ''Riksadvokat'') has the coordinative leadership. When

Tor-Aksel Busch Tor-Aksel Busch (born 17 March 1950) is a Norwegian jurist. He served as Director of Public Prosecutions from 1997 to 2019. Career Busch was born in Oslo, and graduated as cand.jur. from the University of Oslo in 1974. From 1981 to 1987 he was ...

resigned on 31 October 2019 he was the longest serving ''Riksadvokat'' in Norway's history.

Directors of Public Prosecutions

This is a list of the Directors of Public Prosecutions: *1889–1901 :

Bernhard Getz Bernhard Getz (21 March 1850 – 1 November 1901) was a Norwegian judge, professor, law reformer and Mayor of Oslo. He was born at Strinda in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. He was the son of merchant Anton Lauritz Getz (1817–68) and Anna Chris ...

*1901–1904 : Johan Blackstad (acting since 1891) *1904–1911 : Harald Smedal (acting since 1904) *1911–1929 :

Peder Kjerschow Peder Kjerschow (5 June 1857 – 10 December 1944) was a Norwegian judge. He was born in Tromsøe, as a son of Christian Collett Kjerschow and grandson of Peder Christian Hersleb Kjerschow. Through marriage he was a nephew of Jacob Andreas Miche ...

*1929–1940 :

Haakon Sund Haakon Ragnvald Olsen Sund (5 April 1873 – 31 December 1965) was a Norwegian judge and prosecutor. He took the cand.jur. degree in 1895, and became police chief in Bodø in 1904. In 1913 he was promoted to Public Prosecutor ( no, statsadvokat) ...

*1941–1945 :

Jørgen Nordvik Jørgen Kornelius Nordvik (28 November 1895 – 21 July 1977) was a Norwegian jurist. He was a member of the party Nasjonal Samling before the Second World War and worked as an attorney in Lillehammer. In 1940 he participated for Norway in battl ...

(collaborator during the

German occupation of Norway The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

) *1945–1946 :

Sven Arntzen Sven Arntzen (4 April 1897 – 27 November 1976) was a Norwegian barrister. He was also the acting director general of the Norwegian Prosecuting Authority from 1945 to 1946, and played an important role in the legal purge in Norway after World Wa ...

(acting) *1946–1967 : Andreas Aulie *1968–1979 : Lauritz J. Dorenfeldt *1979–1986 : Magnar Flornes *1986–1997 :

Georg Fredrik Rieber-Mohn Georg Fredrik Rieber-Mohn (born 13 August 1945) is a Norwegian judge. He was born in Lillehammer, and graduated as cand.jur. from the University of Oslo in 1969. He worked as a secretary from 1969, and as a prison administrator from 1971. In 19 ...

*1997–2019:

*2019-present : Jørn Sigurd Maurud

References

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Directors of Public Prosecutions

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