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Today, the police can intercept people suspected of crimes that can result in at least two years in prison. Now they want the opportunity to eavesdrop on people who are not suspected of any crime. The purpose is to be able to combat gang crime in a more effective way, among other things to better understand how criminals reason.
– We need a change in legislation that gives us greater opportunities to listen to encrypted phones, says Mats Löfving, deputy chief of the National Police, in Ekot’s interview on Saturday.
“Important experiences”
This summer, Europol managed to hack Encrochat, an encrypted phone that is also used by many criminals in Sweden. For several months, the police were able to read messages sent between various criminal actors across Europe.
– Now we hope that all this telephone traffic will lead us to clarify more crimes than we would have done otherwise. All in all, these are very important experiences. We would like to have more opportunities for this type of entry on encrypted phones, especially for intelligence purposes, for the Swedish police, says Deputy Chief of the National Police, Mats Löfving, to Ekot.
