The Victim Counseling Service in Denmark.
Someone to talk to!

To be the victim of crime can be a highly unpleasant and often scary experience. The result is often a strong feeling of insecurity, which may result in a personal crisis. This can happen to victims of burglary, mugging, robbery, threats, violence, rape and many other crimes.

Support networks and people who are ready to help you make all the difference. It is important that a victim has another person to talk to who understands the situation, can give attention, provide counselling and offer good advice about other avenues for help such as compensation.

The Victim Counselling Service is not intended to replace existing governmental institutions or the assistance that they offer – but instead serve as a supplement and make a difference!

The Victim Counselling Service works independently of the authorities and is fully independent in form, structure, and organisation. All personnel work on a voluntary basis.

The Victim Counselling Service is completely anonymous.

The Victim Counselling Service does not just help victims of violence. It provides support to all victims of crime. Information about the activities and the addresses of victim counselling services is provided when victim-related crime is reported to the police.

After reporting an offence, many people are left with unsolved problems and a feeling of insecurity. In these cases, the opportunity to contact the Victim Counselling Service and talk to another person who understands the situation is often a great help. Just the act of talking it over will help ease many problems.

In 1997, the Minister of Justice introduced a bill for an amendment to the Administration of Justice Act designed to strengthen the position of victims in criminal law. To this end, the Minister proposed a series of initiatives for help and assistance to victims. One of these was the establishment of victim counselling services in police districts across Denmark.

Links to the addresses and telephone numbers of the victim counselling services can be found on this website.

At the request of the Minister of Justice, the National Commissioner In 1998 initiated the establishment of such counselling services. Your local police will inform you how to get in contact with Victim Counselling Services.