The State Administration Database

Department of Crisis Management and Security

This page shows the event history for this unit.

01.01.2013* Regular founding

Name: Department of Crisis Management and Security
Short name: Avdeling for krisehåndtering og sikkerhet
Affiliations: Ministry
Hierarchical level: Division
Superior body: Ministry of Justice
Located: 301 Oslo

The Government Emergency Support Unit is the permanent secretariat for the Government Emergency Management Council, and supports the Norwegian Government and Ministries in their crisis management.

01.01.2015* Change of name

Name: Department of Crisis Management and Security
Short name: KBS

Tasks:
The Government Emergency Support Unit is the permanent secretariat for the Government Emergency Management Council, and supports the Norwegian Government and Ministries in their crisis management.
Source: regjeringen.no, january 2015

31.12.2015* Ending by merger

Remarks

* = If a date is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies that the date is not confirmed.

* = If a name is denoted with an asterisk (*), this implies a direct translation from Norwegian to English. The translation is thus not necessarily the official one (if any exists at all).

Comment to the change-of-name event: Sometimes the old and new name is the same. This occur when the translation to English haven’t taken into consideration minor Norwegian name change.