Odd Reidar Humlegård (born 9 May 1961, in
Porsgrunn
is a city and municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Grenland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Porsgrunn.
The municipality of Porsgrunn wa ...
) is a
Norwegian lawyer, civil servant and the current National Police Commissioner. Humlegård previously served as head of the
National Criminal Investigation Service, and was appointed as director to the
National Police Directorate in August 2012 after the controversial resignation of
Øystein Mæland.
Career
Humlegård first joined the Norwegian police in 1984, after graduating from
Norwegian Police University College, having previously received officer's training at the Military Academy. He later enrolled in- and graduated from law school in 1992. From 2003 he served as head of the
National Mobile Police Service, before he was appointed to the National Criminal Investigation Service in 2009. He was responsible for the investigation of many high-profile cases during his tenure, such as
The Pocket Man
Erik Andersen (born 20 March 1952), also referred to in the media as The Pocket Man (in Norwegian "Lommemannen"), is a convicted Norwegian child molester from Bergen. He was arrested in 2008, accused of molesting hundreds of children since 1976, ...
in 2009.
In the wake of the sudden resignation of Øystein Mæland in 2012, he was promptly appointed to the position as the next Police Commissioner, basically in charge of the whole police force.
References
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Living people
Norwegian civil servants
Norwegian jurists
Norwegian police chiefs
People from Porsgrunn
1961 births