Beate Gangås
Beate Gangås | |
|---|---|
 Gangås in 2008 | |
| Chief of Police of Oslo | |
| Assumed office 12 August 2019 | |
| Deputy | Bjørn Vandvik |
| Preceded by | Hans Sverre Sjøvold |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 April 1963 Asker, Norway |
| Occupation | Police officer Civil servant |
Beate Gangås (born 24 April 1963) is a Norwegian police officer and civil servant. In 2019, she was appointed Oslo Chief of Police.
She was born in Asker.[1] In her younger days she played football for Asker.[2]
She graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.jur. degree in 1991. She worked for the Norwegian Directorate for Health from 1991 to 1992, served as a police prosecutor in in 1992 before being hired in the Oslo police. From 2001 to 2006 she worked in the National Police Directorate. In 2006 she was appointed as the ,[3] a merger between the Centre for Equality, the Equality Ombud and the Centre Against Ethnic Discrimination.[4] She became the chief of police in Østfold Police District in 2010, and in Oslo Police District in 2019.
Openly lesbian, she became the first LGBT police chief in Norway.[5]
References[]
- ^ Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Beate Gangås". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
- ^ "Asker topplaget, jevnere besatt i år". Asker og Bærums Budstikke (in Norwegian). 30 April 1981. p. 12.
- ^ Åmås, Knut Olav, ed. (2008). "Gangås, Beate". Hvem er hvem? (in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 170. ISBN 978-82-03-23561-0.
- ^ Henriksen, Petter, ed. (2007). "Likestillings- og diskrimineringsombudet". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 3 April 2010.
- ^ Hultgreen, Gunnar (21 June 2019). "Beate er Oslos første homofile politimester". Dagbladet (in Norwegian). Retrieved 15 December 2020.
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