Hans Sverre Sjøvold
Hans Sverre Sjøvold is a Norwegian police chief and civil servant.
He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1988 and embarked on a career in the prosecution authority. From 2001 to 2002 he served as assisting director of the National Police Directorate before serving as Chief of Police in Vestfold from 2002 to 2005. He was then rector of the Norwegian Police University College from 2005 to 2010, and deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Justice and the Police from 2010. He was appointed chief of police of Oslo in 2012, succeeding Anstein Gjengedal.
He has been appointed head of the Norwegian Police Security Service, effective from June 2019.
