Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Safety officer alarm: emergency for the police in northern Sweden – Norra Västerbotten

After the alarm to police officers, mostly in inland northern Norrland, on its knees now report police safety situation to the Work Environment Authority.

The report Västerbottensnytt.

the reason is lack of staff. In Västerbotten has on several occasions there has been only personnel to patrol an area the surface is as large as Denmark.

– Just in Västerbotten is urgent, it is very urgent. It is a must for us to raise this question, says Peter Burman, chief at the Västerbotten police, to SVT.

The situation will also be similar in Norrbotten.

Now place Burman demands on police management that there will be staff to two patrols around the clock. In the notification, he writes: “For Sweden as democracy and the rule of law, it is particularly important that the police are given the opportunity to be present and available, even in sparsely populated areas.”

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