 He graduated from the national police academy in 1987 and completed Special Forces training in May 1987, after which, while continuing to work with the conventional police in Rekjavík, he was also a member of the Special Police Task Force until November 1992.From then until 1998 he was with the Drug Division of the Reykjavík police, since when he has been assigned to General Investigations.From 1999 to 2000, he served with the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina.