[4] Two days before the revised budget for 2022 was presented in November 2021, Stensland said that justice minister Emilie Enger Mehl had to "get out of the campaign fog", and that the police didn't need more stations, but more officers.

[5] On 5 December 2021, after justice minister Emilie Enger Mehl had notified of a reversal of the courts reform, Stensland criticised the decision.

[6] In early January 2022, he expressed concern that the Norwegian Police Service was in the process of requiring new drones made by Chinese manufacturer DJI.

He also asked for justice minister Emilie Enger Mehl to halt the process until all necessary questions regarding the possible security issues were answered.

[8] In January 2023, Stensland stated that his party's confidence in justice minister Emilie Enger Mehl was weakened following controversy surrounding her usage of TikTok on her work phone.

[9] Stensland was a board member of Navamedic from 2002 to 2006, Rockfest from 2008 to 2011, of the International Research Institute of Stavanger [no] from 2011 to 2014, and of the Western Norway Regional Health Authority from 2012 to 2014.