To prioritize work environment offenses – Dagens Industri

To prioritize work environment offenses – Dagens Industri

Want to prioritize health and safety offenses

                  2015-03-16 04:18
             

The Swedish Work Environment Authority wants stricter penalties for safety violations. But prosecutors believe that police must get better at prioritizing those suspected of crimes, reports the Echo on Swedish Radio.

Have a murder, you can easily get a number of police officers knocking on doors and examine it here. But if you have a serious workplace accident, you will never get as many investigators to investigate it. Priority is given there, says the prosecutor The lot Loberg.

Police Inspector Filippo Bassini agree that it is at least in part may have been so in the past. He points out, among other things, that the crimes are not easy to investigate and therefore might be easier to lay aside.

Bassini manage a group of police in Stockholm working exclusively with health and safety offenses. He says that it is currently eight cases awaiting a vacant officer. In a survey a few years ago, it could be upwards of 150 cases high.