Police organisation
Politiet
Norway’s national police service: the Police Directorate, twelve police districts, and a set of national special agencies (særorganer).
At a glance
- Official name
- Politiet
- Commonly rendered in English as
- Norwegian Police Service — a rendering in common use, not the organisation’s own name.
- System
- Norway
- Level of government
- National
- Kind of body
- National police force
- Status
- Currently operating
- Official website
- https://www.politiet.no/ — confirmed against the organisation’s own pages on 13 September 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 13 September 2026
What it is
The service’s own organisation page names Politidirektoratet, twelve police districts — Agder, Finnmark, Innlandet, Møre og Romsdal, Nordland, Oslo, Sør-Vest, Sør-Øst, Troms, Trøndelag, Vest and Øst — and særorganer including Kripos, Nasjonalt ID-senter, Politiets fellestjenester, Politiets IT-enhet, Politihøgskolen, Utrykningspolitiet and Økokrim. The page lists those units without describing what each does, so this entry names them and stops there.
What it covers
The whole of Norway, through twelve police districts.
Broad responsibilities
- Policing across Norway through twelve police districts
- National functions carried out through the særorganer named on the service’s own organisation page
Elsewhere on this site
- How police positions work in Norway
- Who polices what — how Norway is structured, against other systems
Where this connects
Institutions: National police.
Sources
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.