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The number of police officers working in the foreign service has decreased in five years. “Alarming”, believe the moderates. But the Police Authority calls the statistics “a bit misleading.”
More police, but less in the external service. Stock Photography.
During the period, the population increased significantly, crime worsened, and the total number of police officers increased.
In December 2019, 9,049 police officers were employed in the external service, compared to 9,226 police officers in 2015, according to information from the newspaper.
The figures also include parental leave, leave and sick leave.
– The figure is a bit misleading. But we are well aware that we need to have more in external service, says Mattias Dejke, national growth coordinator at the Police Authority.
– There is no established definition when we talk about external service. If we look at the annual workforce in external service, as we are trying to do, and we look at August of this year, we see the highest figure since 2015. Our municipal police, for example, has almost tripled.
The moderates’ legal policy spokesman, Johan Forssell, believes the figures are “alarming” and a sign that the police and the government have failed.
According to him, there is a structural tradition within the Police Authority, dating back a long time, where police officers work shorter periods in local areas and then land on a clerical job.
– It is not so strange because the work is exhausting and it is not that well paid. There, the Police Authority must consider how to use the resources. It must be attractive to work and stay in a local police zone.
Interior Minister Mikael Damberg (S) welcomes the Police magazine review, but is cautious about making major changes to the statistics.
– The police authority must account for the figures and how they should be interpreted. It is quite difficult to calculate this and it is easy to put the categories of personnel in different columns, he tells TT.
– Now we have opened two police trainings and we will have growth in the coming years, says Mikael Damberg.
Mattias Dejke points out that the objective of the Police Authority is to have another 5,000 police officers in service in four years and that he must “feel attractive to work in outside activities.”
– We are aware that it is a challenge to grow as much as we want, to accept as many students in a short time, but it still shows that we are going in the right direction, he says.
Corrected version: In a previous version there was incorrect information about who did the revision.
This counts as an external service
According to the Police Authority, these tasks are classified as police officers in the external service:
● BF-IGV: means “crime prevention” and “intervention activities”. Police officers without a specific assignment have a crime prevention function, while those who raise the alarm carry out intervention activities.
● Dog sitter groups
● Recognition
● Border police groups, which are not investigation groups.
● Traffic police
● Maritime Police
● Locus: “local crime scene investigators”, that is, those who carry out the forensic investigation at the crime scene.
● Assistance: when the police authority assists another authority, when police powers are needed, for example, during the transport of a person with a mental disorder or during a state visit.
● aspiring police
● Equestrian
● Action groups
● The police flight
● Task groups
Source: Department of Human Resources of the Police Authority
