Missed ID checks give no million fine – Sydsvenskan

The Transport Agency has so far dealt with 26 cases of ID checks which failed to materialize. But the other day wrote to 25 of them.

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Therefore, DSB does not release a devil over the bridge, to borrow a phrase from the tales of Ensign Stål, if that devil prove to be a passport, driving license or other approved identity document.

the same rule applies to bus services on Öresund bridge and ferry traffic between Helsingborg and Elsinore. Any deviation from this rule leads to the transport companies risk a fine of 50,000 crowns.

Transport Agency has so far dealt with 26 such cases that had come in from police for control. But the other day wrote to 25 of them. Transport Agency considered the DSB, Skånetrafiken and Scandlines had given reasonable explanations for why travelers have been able to cross the Oresund to Malmo or Helsingborg without valid identity documents.

Scandlines avoid penalty charges 500 000. Transport Agency declines police reports that the ferry company botched the ten identification checks.

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– This means that the carrier will not get penalty in precisely those cases. The reason we have written of the cases is that we are not based on the evidence we have been able to assess that the carrier has violated its obligation of verification, says Henrik Olari.

The only company which is now under threat of a penalty is Bergkvarabuss, which may have to pay SEK 50 000 to one of its drivers had not the heart to stop to drive a shabbily dressed Somali teenager in winter cold.

– the case investigating police still says Henrik Olari.

the companies is alleged to have failed to carry out identity checks have big money to earn by convict Transport Agency that the people who come to Sweden without valid iD documents actually showed a valid identification before departure from Denmark. That is why the DSB photograph all the identification documents presented at the controls at Kastrup.

Sydsvenskan and HD has called out the notifications entered from the border police in the South Region Transport Agency in Stockholm that carriers would not have fulfilled its obligation to verify passengers’ identity documents.

notifications are made from January 5 onwards. They show that during the first weeks of ID checks were several cases of misunderstanding between the Danish and Swedish police.

The rules also apply to bus traffic across the Øresund Bridge.

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They also show the identification verifiers on the Danish side of the Öresund seems to have become harsher in their assessments and that during the last five weeks only accused of having released the past six passengers without valid identification documents.