The National Special Crime Unit (Danish: National enhed for Særlig Kriminalitet (NSK)) is a unit that is part of the
Danish police
The Police of Denmark (, , ) is the Denmark, Danish National Police force, and the interior part of the Danish security forces (the Danish Defence, Danish military being the exterior) in the Kingdom (The Danish Realm: Denmark (proper), Green ...
.
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
A financial intelligence unit (FIU) is a national agency responsible for receiving, analyzing, and disseminating financial information on suspicious or unusual financial activity from the financial industry and other entities or professions req ...
.
History
In 2020 the Danish
Minister for Justice
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,
Nick Hækkerup
Nick Hækkerup (born 3 April 1968) is a Danish writer and politician of Social Democrats who has been serving as the Minister of Justice in the Frederiksen Cabinet from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as Minister of Defence, and Minister of He ...
, 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
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."
The bill establishing the unit was submitted for public consultation by the Ministry of Justice on 17 August 2021. 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.
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.
References
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External links
Official website
Law enforcement agencies of Denmark