Dan Eliasson

Dan Tore Eliasson (born 14 August 1961 in Sundsvall) is a Swedish lawyer and civil servant. He served as Director–General of the Swedish Migration Agency from 2007 to 2011, as Director–General of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency from 2011 to 2014, as National Police Commissioner from 2014 to 2018 and as Director–General of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) from 2018 until his dismissal in 2021. After his dismissal in 2021, he was placed as Director-General of the Division of Crisis Preparedness of the Ministry of Justice until the end of 2022.

He was appointed National Police Commissioner by the Minister for Home Affairs in November 2014 and began serving on 1 January 2015. Eliasson is a graduate of law at Uppsala University. He has also served as ambassador and Chief of International Affairs at the Ministry of Justice from 1999–2001, as State Secretary under the Minister for Justice Thomas Bodström from 2001–2006 and as acting head of the Swedish Security Service in 2006.

Head of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency

In October 2011 Eliasson became head of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Swedish: Försäkringskassan). As head of the agency he ordered the article about himself on Swedish Wikipedia to be edited by agency staff to remove criticism.

According to a staff poll at the agency, employees at the agency had very low confidence in Eliasson.

Head of the Swedish Police Authority

In November 2014 Eliasson was appointed the new head of the Swedish Police Authority and he took up the position on 1 January 2015 while the authority was in the middle of a major restructuring. His appointment was criticized by the police union on the grounds that Eliasson is not a police officer and had no experience of policing.