Police organisation
Rigspolitiet
Denmark’s police, organised into twelve geographical districts, with the Faroe Islands and Greenland each forming a district of their own.
At a glance
- Official name
- Rigspolitiet
- Commonly rendered in English as
- Danish National Police — a rendering in common use, not the organisation’s own name.
- System
- Denmark
- Level of government
- National
- Kind of body
- National police force
- Status
- Currently operating
- Official website
- https://politi.dk/ — confirmed against the organisation’s own pages on 13 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 13 September 2026
What it is
The Danish police are organised territorially into twelve geographical police districts. The Faroe Islands Police and the Greenland Police each constitute a police district, which is a structural fact about the Danish realm rather than a detail: two self-governing territories are policed within the Danish district system rather than by forces of their own.
What it covers
Denmark, plus the Faroe Islands and Greenland, each of which forms a police district.
Broad responsibilities
- Policing through twelve geographical police districts
Elsewhere on this site
- Politimuseet — the museum, archive or collection that holds this organisation’s history
- Who polices what — how Denmark is structured, against other systems
Other organisations to compare
- National enhed for Særlig Kriminalitet — Denmark
Where this connects
Institutions: National police.
Sources
Rigspolitiet (Danish National Police), politi.dk · Government publication · link verified 2026-09-13
The Danish National Police's own English site, read directly and re-confirmed. Supports that Denmark is organised into 12 geographical police districts, that the Faroe Islands Police and Greenland Police each form a police district, and that "the 15th police district is the Special Crime Unit, which is a nationwide investigative unit established in 2022". Re-read on 2026-09-13, when the page also gave the organisation’s name as Rigspolitiet in Danish and "Danish National Police" in English, and stated that "The Kingdom of Denmark consists of a total of 15 police districts". The specific sentence naming the National Commissioner (Rigspolitichef) as head of Rigspolitiet under the Ministry of Justice was not on the page fetched, so leadership is stated only to the extent the source supports it.