Willy Haugli (2 August 1927 – 12 February 2009) was a Norwegian jurist, university director and police chief.

Biography

Haugli was born in

Tromsø Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the ...

, Norway. He was the son of Ivar Stefanussen Haugli (1889-1942) and Jenny Løvberg (1896-1961). He graduated from the

Norwegian Police University College The Norwegian Police University College ( no, Politihøgskolen; PHS) is a public university college located in Oslo, Kongsvinger, Stavern and Bodø, Norway. It offers education for the police force of Norway, including a three-year basic educati ...

(''Politiskolen'') in 1950. He attended the National Defense College (''Forsvarets høgskoleof'') from 1967 to 1968.Family genealogy
In 1969, Haugli was appointed university director of the newly established

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...

. He was university director from 1969 to 1978. In 1985 he was appointed district law judge in Tromsø and that same year became

Chief of police Chief may refer to: Title or rank Military and law enforcement * Chief master sergeant, the ninth, and highest, enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force * Chief of police, the head of a police department * Chief of the b ...

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 ...

, a position which he held from 1985 until 1994. In retirement, he returned to Tromsø where for some years he served as extraordinary judge in the

Hålogaland Court of Appeal The Hålogaland Court of Appeal ( no, Hålogaland lagmannsrett) is one of six courts of appeal in the Kingdom of Norway. The Court is located in the city of Tromsø. The court has jurisdiction over the counties of Nordland, Troms, and Finnmark as ...

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1927 births 2009 deaths People from Tromsø Norwegian police chiefs Norwegian jurists Norwegian educators {{law-enforcement-bio-stub