Strong JO-criticism of the police romregister – Aftonbladet

The Parliamentary Ombudsman (JO) addressed today sharp criticism of Skåne police.

The reason: the police’s illegal records of Roma.

According to the Ombudsman, the very vague responsibilities within the police force were a prerequisite for the shortcomings in data collections.

– Responsibility for the fundamental shortcomings of the Authority’s organization, instruction and practice rests on the police authority and its top manager, the provincial police chief. It also rests a heavy responsibility on those who held the position as head of the county kriminalavdelningen. I am very critical also to the head of criminal intelligence in Lund, who had a responsibility for data collections were built up, and the police who built them up, says Jo Cecilia Renfors today.

Unclear responsibilities

Skåne County Police had illegally record of more than 4,000 Roma. The news hit like a bomb in Sweden in autumn 2013, and the matter was investigated by including the Security and Integrity (SIN), which concluded that the register was illegal.

But exactly who was responsible for the register has so far been unclear. The Ombudsman has therefore reviewed whom in Skåne police who had responsibility for the illegal registration of Roma. The police have the unclear division of responsibilities has been a prerequisite for the shortcomings of data collections, says Ombudsman in his decision stated that the defects found with very serious consequences.

The ambiguity of the responsibilities meant that those involved were not aware of the extent of their responsibilities.

– I want to point out that the confidence that the legislature has given the Police Authority, through the extensive right to process data in criminal intelligence, requires that careful follow and respect the police Data Act’s privacy provisions, concludes JO Cecilia Renfors.

Past examined

Security and Integrity and prosecutors have previously done audits showed that there were serious flaws in the processing of the data into two data sets within the police’s criminal intelligence.

JO presupposes Now that the new Police Authority do what is necessary to ensure that the Police Data Act’s privacy provisions are complied with throughout the Agency.