National Special Crime Unit (Denmark)
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| National Special Crime Unit National enhed for Særlig Kriminalitet | |
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| Agency overview | |
| Employees | Approximately 800 employees |
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| Size | 43,000 square kilometres (17,000 sq mi) in Denmark, 2,175,000 square kilometres (840,000 sq mi) in Greenland, 1,400 square kilometres (540 sq mi) in other dependencies |
| Legal jurisdiction | Kingdom of Denmark - Denmark - Faroe Islands - Greenland |
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| Headquarters | Ejby Industrivej 125-135 2600 Glostrup |
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The National Special Crime Unit (Danish: National enhed for Særlig Kriminalitet (NSK)) is a unit that is part of the Danish police.
The unit works with investigation and prosecution of organized crime, financial crime and cybercrime. It is organized as a nationwide police district and consists of a police division, prosecution division, administration division and the Danish Financial Intelligence Unit.
History
[edit]In 2020 the Danish Minister for Justice, Nick Hækkerup, announced plans to create a national police unit that could handle the most complicated types of crime and said he "dreamed of a Danish version of the FBI."[1]
The bill establishing the unit was submitted for public consultation by the Ministry of Justice on 17 August 2021.[2] The bill was subsequently presented in the Folketing on 6 October 2021 and adopted on 16 December 2021 with 100 votes in favor and 2 against. 0 voted neither in favour nor against.[3]
The National Special Crime Unit opened 1 January 2022 and is a merger of Special Investigation West, Special Investigation East, the Nationwide Center for IT-related Economic Crime, the Border Center Øresund, the National Forensic Science Center, the National Cyber Crime Center as well as parts of the National Investigation Center and the Public Prosecutor for Economic and International Crime.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Ritzau (21 August 2020). "Hækkerup vil lave en ny stor politikreds: Drømmer om dansk FBI" [Hækkerup wants to create a new large police district: Dreams of a Danish FBI] (in Danish). Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
- ^ "Justitsministeren vil med nyt lovforslag etablere en ny National enhed for Særlig Kriminalitet og en ny Statsadvokat" [With a new bill, the Minister of Justice will establish a new National Special Crime Unit and a new Public Prosecutor] (Press release) (in Danish). Ministry of Justice. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ "L 14 Forslag til lov om ændring af straffeloven, retsplejeloven, hvidvaskloven og forskellige andre love" [L 14 Proposal for an Act amending the Criminal Code, the Administration of Justice Act, the Money Laundering Act and various other laws.] (in Danish). The Danish Parliament. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
- ^ "Organisationen" [The Organisation] (in Danish). Rigspolitiet. Retrieved 16 March 2022.