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Mats Karlsson confirms for HD / Sydsvenskan that the police have a searchable database to access what they describe as “family-based criminal networks”.
The survey should be based on people who are suspected by the police to be criminals.
– We should not do otherwise, we should not collect information just because someone is related. It is based on the criminal. It doesn’t have to be an entire family involved, he tells the newspaper.
According to HD / Sydsvenskan, the survey has been conducted for at least one year. Exactly what the police have discovered is secret, but it is clear that there are up to ten family networks in Skåne.
I tried to get into the police
It was on last week’s episode of Ekot’s “Saturday interview” that Mats Löfving, the deputy chief of police, said that in Sweden there are 40 family-based criminal networks in Sweden.
– These clans have come to Sweden solely for the purpose of organizing and systematizing crime. They work to generate power, they have a great capacity for violence and they want to earn money. And they do it with drug crimes, violent crimes, extortion, he said then.
Since then, there has been a great debate about criminal clans in Sweden. Ekot also reported that Löfving’s statement is being questioned in several of the seven police regions of the country.
But Mats Karlsson, head of the police intelligence unit in the southern region, tells HD / Sydsvenskan that some of the criminal family networks are trying to get positions where they can influence society. Police have had to act when people with connections to family networks tried to break into them.
In 2013, the scandal with the Roma registry was revealed, in which the police mapped Roma families. Mats Karlsson says that the mistakes that were made then will not be repeated now.
– I see the homework you’ve done, how you’ve built a huge apparatus on how we should handle this. Because we need data collections. It is a huge trust that we have had to process information about people who are not convicted, maybe not even suspects, she tells HD / Sydsvenskan.
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Clans in Sweden have been established in the last 30-40 years.
