Police. the Police reported ten per cent fewer cases to prosecutors in 2016 compared with 2015.
– the Government must act now to reverse the trend, says former minister of justice Beatrice Ask (M).
Interior minister Anders Ygeman (S), said just before christmas that the police need to show better results before year-end. He promised then “strong measures” if the results do not turned. Ygeman counted then to see the improvements.
But the report that the police published on Thursday shows that one in december, reported a 24 per cent fewer cases to prosecutors, compared with december 2015. Total for the entire year reported to the police, ten per cent fewer cases to prosecutors compared to 2015.
Big bedrägerihärvor
Police out to bedrägeribrotten accounts for one-third of the decline in earnings. The deterioration of the the type is of 40% compared with 2015. Several polisregioner had in 2015 some bedrägerihärvor that generated a very large number of reported cases. Excluding the fraud stops, the decrease for the year of six per cent in december to two per cent.
It is according to the press release from the police “a clear improvement compared with september and October was two months with very low accounts.”
– You can’t count the fraud, they are a part of the crime, says the former minister of justice, moderaten Beatrice Ask.
She believes that the police should be careful not to try to finish the statistics. Ask refers to the that it is particular for the so-called vardagsbrotten as fraud and theft as results can go down.
When it comes to violent crimes reported to the police, six per cent fewer cases to the prosecutors in 2016, and for other offences against the person eleven per cent fewer. For damages to property, the decline was 17 percent.
Testy
“Obviously, we are not satisfied with this. But we have had a struggling year due to our reorganization and the increasingly violent organized crime, which absorbs large utredningsresurser”, writes Mats Löfving, head of the police’s National operations department, in a press release.
Löfving also suggest that border controls and ordningshållning at asylboende affected the results.
– You can no longer blame on the reorganization or the border control, there must be a fading effect. However, I think that gängkriminaliteten is relevant, there is a weighty argument, ” says Sven-Erik Alhem, a former superior prosecutor and president of the crime victim support.
Think on the turn of events
the Results are different for the different polisregionerna. For polisregion My reduced carrying case to the prosecutor, with 23 per cent and in the South there was a decrease of 14 per cent.
Even the police federation demands that the government act.
a new strategy is needed for the police in Sweden, according to the chairman Lena Nitz.
– We have lost a lot of competence in the police in those years. Many police officers, experienced investigators, have left the profession. It is the main reason for the downward trend,
the Year 2011 reported to the police almost 210 000 cases to prosecutors, in the year 2015, the figure was less than 162 000 and last year, more than 145 000.
Police refers to the fact that several measures are now being implemented to reverse the trend of earnings. More police officers are hired, and during the last year employee also 952 civilians. According to the head of the National operations department, Mats Löfving, this creates the conditions for the results turning up in 2017.
The final accounts of the police authority’s results are made in the annual report that is submitted to the government on February 22.
the FACTS
the Number of cases reported to the prosecutor’s office in 2016 compared with 2015
Violent crime: – 6 percent
Other offences against the person: – 11%
damages to property: – 17 per cent
Theft (excluding shop): – 15%
drug law Offences: – 4%
Traffic: – 5%
Theft in the store: – 6 percent
Bedrägeribrott m.m: – 40%
Economic crime: – 13%
Other penal code crimes: – 7 percent
Other specialstraffrättsliga crime: – 5 per cent
Other: – 14%
Total: – 10%
Source: Police department
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