Marie Benedicte Bjørnland

Benedicte Bjørnland
Director of Police
Assumed office
1 April 2019
Preceded byOdd Reidar Humlegård
Director of the Norwegian Police Security Service
In office
8 June 2012 (2012-06-08)  29 March 2019
Preceded byJanne Kristiansen
Succeeded byHans Sverre Sjøvold
Personal details
Born
Marie Benedicte Bjørnland

(1965-04-30) 30 April 1965
Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway
Children2
OccupationLawyer

Marie Benedicte Bjørnland (born 30 April 1965) is a Norwegian lawyer. She is the current Director of Police since 2019, and was the head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) from 2012 to 2019.