Thorkild Fogde

Thorkild Fogde (born 18 July 1965) is a Danish police officer and current commissioner of the Danish Police; he became national police commissioner on 1 March 2020, replacing Jens Henrik Højbjerg.

Early life

Fogde has a Master of Law degree from Aarhus Universitet from 1991. He is a former clerk for the Ministry of Justice and the Prime Minister's Office. He also served as a judge in the Court of Roskilde from 1993 to 1994.

Police career

In 2009, Fogde was employed as a Politidirektør in North Zealand's Police and later in 2012 as the Politidirektør for Rigspolitiet. From 2013 to 2017 he was the Politidirektør for Copenhagen's Police.

In April 2017 he became the director for the Danish Prison and Probation Service.

On 24 August 2022, Fogde was relieved from service following the 2020 Danish mink cull, and summoned to official interrogations and disciplinary hearings. He was reinstated as the national police commissioner on 10 February after the preliminary inquiry had completed its official investigation, and concluded that no offence had been committed by him.