Carl Persson

Carl Johan Gunnar Persson (14 December 1919 – 6 November 2014) was a Swedish jurist and politician.

[1] His highest profile investigations during his tenure as National Police Commissioner included the hijacking of Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 130 to Bulltofta Airport in 1972, the Norrmalmstorg robbery in 1973, and the West German Embassy siege by the Red Army Faction in 1975.

[4] Persson did his clerkship in Södra Åsbo and Bjäre Judicial District from 1942 to 1945, and became a Legal Clerk in Scania and Blekinge Court of Appeal in 1945.

Persson served as a tingsrätt secretary in the Södra Åsbo and Bjäre Judicial District from 1948 to 1949 (acting in 1947) and as an assessor in 1951.

[5] Furthermore, Persson was chairman of the natural resource delegation of the Coordinating Board of the Swedish Research Councils (Forskningsrådsnämndens naturresursdelegation), Emergency Services Commission (Räddningstjänstkommissionen), the Theft Investigation, National Bacteriological Laboratory (Statens bakteriologiska laboratorium) Investigation, the Investigation of Nuclear Power Preparedness from 1987 to 1989, the Delegation for Patient Transport by Helicopter from 1989 to 1991, chairman of the Committee for Teaching of the hospital's Expansion from 1981 to 1990 and the Disaster Commission (Katastrofkommissionen) from 1982 to 1990.

National Police Commissioner Carl Persson, Per-Gunnar Vinge from the Swedish Security Service and public prosecutor Lars Ringberg examines part of the Nazi organization's seized weapons store in 1965.