Thorkild Fogde (born 18 July 1965) is a

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police officer and current commissioner of the

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; he became National police commissioner on the 1 March 2020 replacing Jens Henrik Højbjerg.

Early life

Thorkild Fogde has a

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degree from

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from 1991. He is a former clerk for the Ministry of Justice and the Prime Minister's Office. He has also served as a

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in the Court of Roskilde from 1993 to 1994

Police career

In 2009 Thorkild was employed as a Politidirektør in North Zealand's Police and later in 2012 as the Politidirektør for Rigspolitiet. From 2013-2017 he was the Politidirektør for Copenhagen's Police. In April of 2017 he became the Director for the Danish Prison and Probation Service On the 24th of August 2022, Thorkild was relieved from service following the

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, and summoned to official interrogations and disciplinary hearings. Thorkild was reinstated as the National Police Commissioner on the 10th of February after the preliminary inquiry had completed its official investigation of Thorkild, and concluded that no offence had been committed by him.

References

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