Oslo Police District (
Norwegian: ''Oslo politidistrikt'') is the largest police district in
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of ...
. The Police District of Asker og Bærum and Oslo Police District are from January 1, 2016 merged into one, Police Districts Asker and Bærum and Oslo are from 1 January 2016 merged into one, and kept the name Oslo Police District. The police district comprises three municipalities,
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of ...
,
Asker and
Bærum
Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...
. It has a total population of around 800,000 people.
Oslo Police District has seven 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
Western unit
* Asker police station, located in Torvveien 20,
Asker
* Bærum police station, located in Kjørboveien 33,
Sandvika
Sandvika () is the administrative centre of the municipality of Bærum in Norway. It was declared a city by the municipal council in Bærum on 4 June 2003.
Sandvika is situated approximately west of Oslo. It is the main transportation hub fo ...
(Bærum)
* Majorstuen police station, located in Sørkedalsveien 27 B at
Majorstuen
Unit of central Oslo
* Grønland police station, located in the Oslo Police Headquarters at Grønlandsleiret 44,
Grønland.
* Sentrum police station, Hammersborggata 12, next door to
National Police Directorate (Norway)
National Police Directorate ( no, Politidirektoratet) a government agency subordinate to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security which heads the Norwegian Police Service. The directorate is led by the National Police Commissioner (Politidirekt ...
in central Oslo.
* There is also a smaller police office, located at the
Oslo Central Station.
Eastern unit
* Manglerud police station, located in Plogveien 31 at
Manglerud.
* Stovner police station, located in Aasta Hansteens vei 10 at
Stovner
Stovner is a borough located to the far north east of the city of Oslo, Norway. Historically, Stovner was the name of a farm in the municipal borough " Østre Aker". Østre Aker merged with Oslo in 1948, both instigated and followed by a massive ...
.
Contact
Emergency telephone number is ☎
112, non emergency calls at ☎ 02800 or ☎ (+47)22 66 90 50.
Common units
*Police Section for Immigration Administration
Section for Immigration Administration
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*Common unit for operational service
*Common criminal unit
*Common unit for intelligence and investigation
*Common unit for prevention
*Common unit for prosecution
*Common unit for foreigners and administration
*Joint unit for civil justice (namsfogd)
*Common unit for national aid resources
Mobility
Oslo Police disposal units that move on land (mounted police
Mounted police are police who patrol on horseback or camelback. Their day-to-day function is typically picturesque or ceremonial, but they are also employed in crowd control because of their mobile mass and height advantage and increasingly in t ...
in addition to patrols on foot, by car and motorcycle), sea (Harbor Police) and by air (helicopter).
Gallery
File:Politihuset Oslo.jpg, Oslo Police Headquarters
File:Hammersborggata with Politidirektoratet and Oslo Sentrum Police Station - 2007.04.03.jpg, Sentrum Police Station
File:08-09-19 Stovner politistasjon.jpg, Stovner Police Station
File:Majorstua politistasjon 20100509-1.jpg, Majorstuen Police Station
File:LN-OCP 010.jpg, Police Helicopter in Oslo
File:Mounted policeman in Oslo (Norway).jpg, Mounted police
Mounted police are police who patrol on horseback or camelback. Their day-to-day function is typically picturesque or ceremonial, but they are also employed in crowd control because of their mobile mass and height advantage and increasingly in t ...
in Oslo
File:Politibaaten klar.jpg, Harbour police in Oslo
See also
* Police Services at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen
* Norwegian Police Service
* National Criminal Investigation Service (Norway)
The National Criminal Investigation Service ( no, Den nasjonale enhet for bekjempelse av organisert og annen alvorlig kriminalitet, previously ''Kriminalpolitisentralen''), commonly known as Kripos, is a special agency of the Norwegian Police Ser ...
* National Police Immigration Service (Norway) The National Police Immigration Service (NPIS) ( no, Politiets utlendingsenhet) is the unit in the Norwegian Police Service for handling immigration cases.
The NPIS's main tasks are to register asylum seekers who come to Norway
Norway, ...
* List of police districts in Norway
The Norwegian Police Service is divided into 27 police districts, which collectively cover Metropolitan Norway.
Current structure
The following is a list of police districts in Norway. It lists the head office location, the chief of police, the ...
References
External links
Contact information in English
Police districts in Norway
Organisations based in Oslo
Law enforcement agencies of Norway
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