Director General Tor-Aksel Busch is the head of the Norwegian Prosecuting Authority.

The Prosecuting Authority is organised on three levels:

• The Director of Public Prosecutions
• The Public Prosecutors
• The Prosecuting Authority in the Police

The public prosecutors and the Director of Public Prosecutions are called The Higher Prosecuting Authority. The Prosecuting Authority is responsible for the handling of criminal cases, i.e. investigation, deciding whether to prosecute and to prosecute the cases that go to court. In combatting crime, the police is following two strategies: Preemptive measures and the handling of criminal cases. The two strategies are closely interlinked, and both are equally important. Most cases are decided by the Prosecuting Authority in the police, but the cases concerning the most serious crimes are decided by the public prosecutor or by the Director of Public Prosecutions (the DPP). The DPP is directing the handling of criminal cases, which implies deciding the targets and the priorities for the public prosecutors and the police districts. The public prosecutor in a region supervises the police districts in that region. National Authority for Prosecution of Organised and Other Serious Crime oversees the handling of criminal cases at the Kripos, which is a special agency in the police.

If you need assistance in an international matter (how to put forward a request for mutual legal assistance etc.), you might contact:

Mr Bjørn Feyling
Senior Public Prosecutor at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
His working languages are Norwegian, English and German
Phone: + 47 22 47 78 50
Fax: + 47 22 33 31 12
E-mail: bjorn.feyling@riksadvokaten.no