General state of the office
were concluded within six months (calculated as 182 days) as against a target of
75 per cent, and 89.7 per cent of substantively investigated complaint cases were
concluded within 12 months – here the target was 90 per cent.
The Ombudsman's targets for processing times for complaint cases
Rejected cases concluded
within 2 months
90.0 %
Substantively investigated cases
concluded within 6 months
75.0 %
Substantively investigated cases
concluded within 12 months
84.8 %
73.4 %
90.0 %
89.7 %
Target
Result
Target
Result
Target
Result
As at 1 June 2012, 258 concrete cases had not been concluded within five months
of being opened. 163 of them were awaiting the Ombudsman’s procedure.
In one complaint case, the Ombudsman declared himself disqualified. The Legal
Affairs Committee of the Danish Parliament assigned this case to Mr Ejler
Bruun, High Court Judge.
In 2011, the Faroese Lagting asked the Ombudsman to act as ad hoc Ombudsman
in two cases, whereas the Landsting of Greenland did not ask the Ombudsman
to act as ad hoc Ombudsman in 2011.
A total of 30,305 documents (letters to and from the office etc.) were registered in
the electronic system of the office in the calendar year 2011. The corresponding
figure for 2010 was 28,346 documents.
On 1 May 2012, the institution was organised as follows:
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