Police organisation
Nasjonalt ID-senter
An expert body on foreign nationals’ identity and identity documents — part of the police organisation without being an operational police unit.
At a glance
- Official name
- Nasjonalt ID-senter
- Commonly rendered in English as
- National ID Centre — a rendering in common use, not the organisation’s own name.
- System
- Norway
- Level of government
- National
- Kind of body
- Specialist national service
- Status
- Currently operating
- Official website
- https://www.politiet.no/om-politiet/organisasjonen/sarorganene/nasjonalt-id-senter/ — confirmed against the organisation’s own pages on 13 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 13 September 2026
What it is
Nasjonalt ID-senter is "et ekspertorgan som arbeider med utlendingers identitet og ID-dokumenter". Its stated purpose is to raise the quality, competence, information exchange and methodological development of identity work. It sits among the Norwegian police’s special agencies and does no policing, which is worth noticing: a police organisation can contain expert bodies whose output is advice rather than enforcement.
What it covers
National, by subject: the identity and identity documents of foreign nationals.
Broad responsibilities
- Expert work on the identity and identity documents of foreign nationals
- Raising quality, competence, information exchange and method development in identity work
Elsewhere on this site
- Who polices what — how Norway is structured, against other systems
Other organisations to compare
- Politiet — Norway
Where this connects
Institutions: National police.
Sources
Nasjonalt ID-senter — Politiet
Politiet (Norwegian Police Service) · Institutional (self-description) · link verified 2026-09-13
SCOPE: Nasjonalt ID-senter only. The service’s own page, read directly. Supports that it is "et ekspertorgan som arbeider med utlendingers identitet og ID-dokumenter", and that its purpose is to "bidra til å høyne kvaliteten, kompetansen, informasjonsutvekslingen og metodeutviklingen innenfor identitetsarbeidet". It is an expert body rather than an operational police unit, and nothing here supports treating it as one.
Politiet (Norwegian Police Service) · Institutional (self-description) · link verified 2026-09-13
SCOPE: the organisational units of the Norwegian police. The service’s own organisation page, read directly. Supports that the service comprises Politidirektoratet, twelve named politidistrikter (Agder, Finnmark, Innlandet, Møre og Romsdal, Nordland, Oslo, Sør-Vest, Sør-Øst, Troms, Trøndelag, Vest, Øst) and særorganer including Kripos, Nasjonalt ID-senter, Politiets fellestjenester, Politiets IT-enhet, Politihøgskolen, Utrykningspolitiet and Økokrim. The page lists these units WITHOUT describing what each does, so no function is asserted for any særorgan from this source, and the position of PST is not established by it.