Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet
Governance index 2024
The agency is in the bottom quartile among police, courts and correctional service (12 agencies). Its development over three years is in the bottom quartile.
- Financial control: 75 of 100
- Audit: 25 of 100
- Employer: 0 of 100
- Procurement: not included (no open figures)
Quartiles within the group, not a ranking. Parts without figures are left out and the weights spread over the rest.
Efficiency and quality 2024
In the group «police, courts and correctional service» (12 agencies) the agency falls in the box «Efficient and well governed».
Efficiency (use of resources)
- Operating cost per full-time equivalent: 88 of 100 · 1,251,090 kr
- Growth in cost per full-time equivalent, 3 years: 43 of 100 · +18.6%
- Consultancy share of operating cost: 50 of 100 · 1.5%
Quality of governance
- Financial control (budget deviation): 75 of 100 · −1.4%
- Stability of the budget deviation, 3 years: 100 of 100 · ±0.8%
- Audit: 25 of 100 · named among the accounts with material errors
- Competition in procurement: not included (no open figures)
The placement is a quartile in the group, not a score or a rank. A low use of resources can reflect different tasks or underfunding, and quality here means quality of governance, not quality of service. Parts without figures are left out.
Not measured: quality of service and user satisfaction, cost per output, and staff turnover.
State accounts
| Year | Spending | Operations | Against budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 through 09/2026 | 5,825 MNOK | 5,634 MNOK | – |
| 2025 | 7,303 MNOK | 6,969 MNOK | −0.6% |
| 2024 | 6,587 MNOK | 6,352 MNOK | −1.4% |
| 2023 | 6,213 MNOK | 6,024 MNOK | +0.1% |
| 2022 | 5,939 MNOK | 5,702 MNOK | +0.6% |
| 2021 | 5,657 MNOK | 5,452 MNOK | +0.1% |
The deviation from budget covers the agency's own operating chapters (posts 01–29), where it posts at least 95 % of the amount. The budget is the adopted budget, changes during the year and what was carried over from the year before. Source: DFØ, state accounts.
As an employer, 2025
- Employees: 5,820
- Agreed full-time equivalents: 5,210
- Full-time equivalents lost to certified sick leave and parental leave: 8.5% (state average: 5.6%)
- Departures as a share of employees: 12.1% (707 departures, 878 new hires)
- Women: 51% · Leaders: 4.4% · Average age: 41.3
Agreed full-time equivalents by year: 2022: 5,188 · 2023: 5,093 · 2024: 5,077 · 2025: 5,210
Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), tables 12627, 12876, 12877 and 12827 (CC BY 4.0), unit «Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet». The share lost compares full-time equivalents excluding parental leave and certified sick leave with agreed full-time equivalents: it mixes the two and is not sick leave alone. It counts in the employer part of the governance index, where lower is better.
Salary costs, 2025
Two of the key figures DFØ asks agencies to report, computed the same way for all from the state accounts and SSB full-time equivalents. Against the median for agencies of the same type (10 agencies). Operating expenditure per full-time equivalent and the consultancy share are under efficiency.
- Salary per full-time equivalent: 888,264 kr (median 1,321,972 kr)
- Salary share of operating expenditure: 66.4% (median 67.9%)
Source: DFØ (state accounts, NLOD) and Statistics Norway (SSB), table 12627 (CC BY 4.0). Salary is account class 5 in the state accounts (payroll costs, which may also include employer’s contributions and pensions). A high salary per full-time equivalent can be the task, not waste: the figures are context and do not count in the index.
Documents from Kudos
- Latest annual report
Årsrapport Kriminalomsorgen 2025 - Letter of allocation
Tildelingsbrev Kriminalomsorgen 2026 (JD) - Evaluation · 16 January 2025
CAMEO - Et evaluering- og effektmålingsprosjekt av aktivitets- og omsorgsprosjekt for eldre i fengsel
Source: DFØ (Kudos), the documents are held by Kudos. Annual reports and evaluations are tied to the agency that owns them, letters of allocation to the agency that receives them.
The annual audit
| Year | The auditor's conclusion |
|---|---|
| 2024 | The Office of the Auditor General found that the accounts may contain material errors and omissions. That applied to 10 of 230 audited accounts. |
| 2023 | The Office of the Auditor General found that the accounts may contain material errors and omissions. That applied to 7 of 235 audited accounts. |
| 2022 | Not among the 5 of 236 accounts in which the Office of the Auditor General found material errors and omissions. |
| 2021 | Not among the 4 of 235 accounts in which the Office of the Auditor General found material errors and omissions. |
Source: the Storting's recommendation on the annual audit (Document 1). «Not among» means the agency is not named there, not that we have read the audit report.
Procurement in Doffin
| Year | Notices | Awards | Single tender |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 2 | 0% |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 0% |
| 2024 | 1 | 1 | 0% |
| 2023 | 6 | 3 | 33% |
The single-tender share is computed from awards where the number of tenders is given. Source: Doffin (DFØ).
The Storting
Questions and cases in the Storting naming the agency in the title.
| Kind | 2025-2026 |
|---|---|
| Written questions | 4 |
| Question time | 0 |
| Interpellations | 0 |
| Cases | 0 |
Latest
- 31 May 2026 · Written questions · to the justis- og beredskapsministeren · named in the title
Har Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet eller Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet gjennomført vurderinger av hvilke konsekvenser en ny flytting av kvinnelige innsatte fra Bredtveit på Ullersmo vil ha for rehabilitering, psykisk helse, kontakt med pårørende og det etablerte fagmiljøet, og vil statsråden offentliggjøre disse vurderingene? - 21 May 2026 · Written questions · to the justis- og beredskapsministeren · named in the title
Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet vurderer på nytt å flytte kvinnelige innsatte fra "Bredtveit" på Ullersmo, til tross for dokumentert kritikk av soningsforholdene etter forrige flytting. Gjentatte omplasseringer kan svekke rehabilitering, stabilitet og kontakt med pårørende, og reiser spørsmål om kvinner i praksis behandles som en salderingspost. Mener statsråden dette er forenlig med krav om likeverd - 14 December 2025 · Written questions · to the justis- og beredskapsministeren · named in the title
Hva er status på de 21 forslagene fra Rambøll sin rapport fra september 2023 på oppdrag fra Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet (KDI) på tiltak som kan bidra til å redusere forekomsten av uønskede hendelser og belastningsreaksjoner blant ansatte i kriminalomsorgen? - 25 November 2025 · Written questions · to the justis- og beredskapsministeren · named in the title
I Meld. St. 31 (2024-2025) skriver regjeringen at en desentralisert fengselsstruktur som bidrar til å oppfylle nærhetsprinsippet, må bevares og videreutvikles. Likevel sender departementet 17. nov. d.å. et oppdrag til Kriminalomsorgsdirektoratet (KDI) om å utrede nytt fengsel i Mosjøen-området med utgangspunkt i rapporten "Fremtidig fengselskapasitet (2024)" der KDI har anbefalt nedlegging av Faus
Source: the Storting (data.stortinget.no, NLOD). Not counted in the index: much attention in the Storting is not bad, and little is not good. Questions are linked to the ministry by the minister's title, and to other agencies only when the name is in the title. We do not show who asked or answered.
What we do not measure
We do not assess policy, goal attainment, the quality of services or individual cases. We look only at what can be measured in open data and what the agency itself controls: financial control, audit and procurement. Sick leave per agency is not openly available and is therefore left out.
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The agency in the Central Coordinating Register · How we calculate
Sources: Brønnøysund Register Centre (NLOD), the Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ), state accounts (NLOD), the Storting (NLOD) and Doffin.
Indications based on open data. Not an assessment of the agency's public mission.