Mette F.: the national Police is halved

Prime minister Mette Frederiksen said in an interview to Berlingske that the Police need a little bit of a slimming diet. 900 posts will be affected, the majo

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
04 February 2020 Tuesday 15:00
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Mette F.: the national Police is halved

Prime minister Mette Frederiksen said in an interview to Berlingske that the Police need a little bit of a slimming diet.

900 posts will be affected, the majority of which must be divided out in the country.

The plan is done according to the prime minister as a response to a development, where the national Police has grown bigger.

- My claim is that centralization is not only have taken place in order to get more muscle to fight new kriminalitetsformer. Something has happened as part of a general development in society, we not only must accept, she says to Berlingske.

Some of the affected positions were known in advance - for example, the proposed national Police in January to abolish the 240 posts in January.

in Addition, the remaining 660 of the national Police in the police districts where there shall be created a 20 nærpolitistationer.

the Stations should be distributed, so there will be ten on each side of the great belt.

Police have 2048 employees, of whom 618 are operated. Around 1400 are civilian employees, and 300 of them work at the police academy, according to Berlingske.

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Updated: 04.02.2020 15:00