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About Thorleif Karlsen
- Thorleif Oscar Karlsen (17 December 1909 – 31 January 2010) was a Norwegian police inspector, who also became known through the radio program Trafikk og musikk. He was born in Stavanger, to which his parents had moved in the same year.
- He was hired as a police officer in 1930.
- He worked in Stavanger from 1930 to 1932, for Statspolitiet in Oslo from 1932 to 1937 and then in Stavanger again from 1938.
- During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was arrested in February 1941 for "anti-German propaganda".
- He was imprisoned at Møllergata 19 from 26 February to 22 March, then at Åneby concentration camp until 16 April.
- He was freed, but was later arrested again during a crackdown on the police (Norwegian: politiaksjonen), and was imprisoned at Grini concentration camp from March 1943 to January 1944.
- After being released again, he was even arrested for a third time, and sat at Møllergata 19 from October 1944 to the war's end in May 1945.
- He has speculated that the reason for him not being sent to a German concentration camp, was that his father co-founded Nasjonal Samling.After World War II he continued as a police officer.
- He was also a member of Stavanger city council from 1947 to 1955, representing the Labour Party.
- In 1954 he became the first non-jurist to serve as police inspector in the city Oslo.
- The appointment of a non-jurist was controversial, and was even debated in the Parliament of Norway.
- He led the traffic police department in Oslo, and held the position until 1979.
- He became nationally known as permanent guest in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation radio program Trafikk og musikk hosted by Oddvar Folkestad which aired every Saturday afternoon between 1960 and 1980.
- He was one of the founders of Trygg Trafikk.
- In 1982 he was hired as a columnist in Stavanger Aftenblad.Karlsen died on 31 January 2010 in Stavanger.
- He was married for the most of his life, had five children and twelve grandchildren.
- He was also a Freemason and a member of the International Organisation of Good Templars, and from 1978 to 1983 he was a board member of the International Abstaining Motorists Association.
- He has been decorated with the King's Medal of Merit in gold, and appointed a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog, a Knight of the Order of Vasa and a Knight of the Order of the Lion of Finland.
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