Janne Kristiansen
| Janne Kristiansen | |
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| 1st Head of the Norwegian Criminal Cases Review Commission | |
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In office 16 April 2004 – 18 September 2009 |
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| Monarch | Harald V |
| Succeeded by | Helen Sæter |
| Head of the Norwegian Police Security Service | |
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In office 25 September 2009 – 18 January 2012 |
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| Monarch | Harald V |
| Prime Minister | Jens Stoltenberg |
| Preceded by | Roger Berg (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Marie Benedicte Bjørnland |
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| Born |
21 November 1952 Oslo, Norway |
| Nationality | Norwegian |
| Occupation | Jurist |
Janne Kristiansen (born 21 November 1952) is a Norwegian jurist. She was the first head of the Criminal Cases Review Commission from 2004 to 2009. and head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) from 2009 to 2012, a position from which she resigned following a heavily politicized scandal.
Born in Oslo, Janne Kristiansen graduated cand. jur. from the University of Oslo in 1979 and worked for a number of years as a high-profiled defence attorney. She was the head of Forsvarergruppen av 1977 (a group of defence lawyers working to promote the principles of the Rechtsstaat and rule of law) between 1985 and 1990. Kristiansen worked as a public defender in Borgarting Court of Appeal from 1986 and in Moss District Court from 1990.
Janne Kristiansen has participated in the making of several Norwegian Official Reports, such as NOU 2003.18 on national security and NOU 2003.21 on "Crime fighting and privacy - the police and public prosecutors' processing of information".
As head of the Criminal Cases Review Commission between 2004 and 2009 she oversaw the decisions on the applications to appeal the criminal trials of Fredrik Fasting Torgersen and Arne Treholt.
She was appointed to the position as director of the Norwegian Police Security Service on 25 September 2009. There were three other applicants, and Minister of Justice Knut Storberget had specifically asked her to apply. In the period between her appointment and her accession in November, Roger Berg was acting director. As head of the PST Kristiansen was juxtaposed with the director of the National Police Directorate as one of the two top leaders of the Norwegian Police Service. During her time as head of the PST she oversaw the arrests of three men with residencies in Norway suspected of planning a terror attack on the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. In addition the terror attacks on the government quarters and Utøya on 22 July 2011 happened during her PST leadership.
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