One or more Special Prosecutors for the State Attorney for Special Crimes

The Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime seeks one or more special prosecutors who would like to specialize in economic or organized crime.

The positions are filled with commencement by agreement.

About the position

As a special prosecutor you will among other things be responsible for handling complex and often larger district court and appeal cases within one or more of the Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime's areas. There will be both criminal cases that run as cooperation cases and traditional appeal cases. You will also contribute to supervision and legality control with the National Unit for Serious Crime.

Depending on your experience with larger cases of a certain weight you may possibly begin as a deputy prosecutor on larger appeal cases together with another special prosecutor from the Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime, so you gain the necessary competences and procedural experience in relation to handling complicated cases with substantial press attention. Prosecution work at the Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime often starts with the establishment of a prosecution team when the character and scope of the case justify it.

We will continually challenge you on both the legal and organizational fronts, just as the job naturally will require your collaboration skills.

The Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime is a smaller office, where there is close collaboration between the prosecutors. You will have easy access to advice, guidance and professional sparring in everyday life. We place a high value on the development of the office’s prosecutors. We must be able to perform at the highest prosecutorial professional level and create visible results in relation to serious, society-destroying crime.

You

You are trained as a jurist (cand.jur.).

The position will predominantly be relevant for lawyers who have solid experience with handling larger cases involving organized or economic crime.

In addition, we imagine that you

• are able to work in depth within the specialty area and thereby contribute to the development of the office and the organization
• have a solid eye for quality and legality assurance
• can make decisions that promote efficiency and quality in case handling
• can be a important role model and sparring partner – both internally within the prosecution service and in collaboration with the police and external parties
• can appear in the High Court

Us

The Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime was established on 1 January 2022 together with the National Unit for Serious Crime to strengthen the fight against complex crime.

The Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime currently consists of approx. 30 staff distributed across two prosecution areas and an executive secretariat.

The Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime leads appeal cases of high complexity in the High Courts, conducts supervision and performs legality control of criminal proceedings in the National Unit for Serious Crime and additionally handles a number of other tasks that are also carried out by the regional prosecutors' offices.

The Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime leads appeal cases that originate from the National Unit for Serious Crime, and as a special feature it also handles the so-called cooperation cases with the National Unit for Serious Crime, where large and complex cases involving economic and organized crime are selected for joint handling already from the start of the investigation.

In these cases the prosecutor from the Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime collaborates with the prosecutors and investigators from the National Unit for Serious Crime on the progress of the case, the tailoring and conduct in both district and High Court, and the prosecutor from the Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime is thus involved in all phases on an equal footing with the prosecutor from the National Unit for Serious Crime.

The aim of the cooperation cases is to achieve higher quality in the investigation and prosecution and a better management of resources in complex cases.

Salary and terms of employment

You will be placed in pay grade as a Special Consultant or Chief Consultant under the Academic Agreement's appendix on special consultants and chief consultants on the new pay scale, unless you are already a civil servant. Placement and any other allowances are negotiated individually.

If you are already employed as a civil servant in the civil service area, you can retain your civil servant status. The position is classified in pay band 36 with associated fixed allowances. In addition, any individual allowances can be negotiated depending on relevant experience and qualifications.

The position’s area of employment is the Ministry of Justice with related institutions. If you are already employed within the Ministry of Justice's employment area, a move to the position will be a rotation within the area.

You must be able to obtain security clearance to the necessary level – normally up to the classification level Secret. You may be required to perform functions where clearance to a higher classification level is necessary. Employment in the police and the prosecution service is conditional on your being able to maintain the necessary security clearance at all times.

Your workplace will be the prosecution service at the Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime, Kampmannsgade 1, 1604 Copenhagen V, and some travel should be expected.

Interested?

If you would like to become part of the prosecution service at the Public Prosecutor for Serious Crime, please submit your application via the "Apply for the position" button. If you are not already employed by the prosecution service, please also send your CV and relevant exam papers.

You can obtain more information about the position by contacting Deputy Public Prosecutor Malene Stage Christensen, [email protected], tel. 4010 1989.

The application deadline is 16 November 2026 , and we expect to conduct interviews on an ongoing basis.

We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, regardless of age, gender, race, religion or ethnic background.