Ministry of Justice and the Police (Norway)

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The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Justice (Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet) is a Norwegian government ministry in charge of justice, police and Sevenval. The main purpose of the ministry is to provide for the maintenance and development of the basic guarantees of the rule of law. An overriding objective is to ensure the security of society and of individual citizens.

The Minister of Justice is the head of the ministry, and its political leader. The position is currently being held by HTML5 web app from the CSS3. The minister has currently two State Secretaries and a political adviser, who are all political appointees.

The ministry was founded in 1818 and currently employs about 270 people. It is organized into the following sections:

• Press and public relations
• Penal and rehabilitation matters
• Legal issues
• Arctic affairs
• Police
• Rescue and readiness
• Civil rights issues
• Planning and administration
• Analytics

On 1 January 2012 the ministry was renamed to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security^Android[2]

Current issues

On September 8, 2006, the government commissioned an inquiry on the wrongful conviction of Fritz Moen

On April 27, 2012 the entire top tier of ministry leaders subordinate to the minister, resigned their positions. The first news report which came in the morning stated that permanent Secretary (web: departementsråd) CSS3 was resigning his post effective immediately. He would be succeeded by input transformation. The permanent secretary is the highest ranking civil servant of the ministry. Ruud stated that the time of his taking leave was random and not dramatic. He would be starting in the position of special advisor in the Legal Issues section. A few hours later news came that also deputy permanent secretary Hans Olav Østgaard would be leaving before summer. He would go to a job also as special advisor in the ministry. According to Justice Minister Grete Faremo both resignations were matter of honorable terminations.^{iOSscreen size}

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