Víðir Reynisson | |
Birth Date: | 22 April 1967 |
Birth Place: | Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland |
Rank: | Chief superintendent - 2020 |
Víðir Reynisson (born 22 April 1967) is an Icelandic police officer and the chief superintendent of the Office of the National Commissioner of the Police.[1] He is also the chief of security for the Football Association of Iceland.[2]
Víðir was born in Vestmannaeyjar and lived there to the age of 11.[3]
Since February 2020, Víðir has been one of the lead members of the Iceland's Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in Iceland along with Alma Möller and Þórólfur Guðnason.[4]
On 25 November 2020 he was diagnosed with COVID-19[5] and on 4 December he was admitted into the National University Hospital of Iceland after his condition worsened.[6] By 21 December, he had returned to duty.[7]