The Swedish police are at times excellent. However, most of the time they are completely useless. Lazy, inefficient and downright nonchalant towards both the law and citizens. A victim can give the police the name of a suspect and sometimes even a film clip of the criminal. But the police will ignore the report anyway. Do absolutely nothing. A scandal?
When the Swedish police decide not to bother investigating a crime they record this in the statistics as a cleared-up crime. They are alone in this in Europe. Perhaps in the whole world, it wouldn’t be surprising.
Police luxury
The Swedish police are equipped in luxurious style compared with the police in most other countries. Police work schedules are generous. Police bureaucracy is swelling over and consuming every new police officer, who could otherwise be out patrolling the streets. Only one in four police officers work out among the public.
Even during office hours on a weekday in town centres the police cruise around two by two in their large cars – all the same size regardless of
Always two police officers in every car to keep each other company Foto: Lars-Kristian Bergh
location or type of assignment. In countries with serious crime on a far larger scale than in Sweden quiet areas are patrolled in the daytime by one police officer per vehicle. Thousands of police officers could be added as a resource at a stroke if ”one-officer patrols” were introduced at certain times.
The police agree with this and anyone who is well-informed knows that the only reason for two-officer patrols is that it is ”so incredibly boring to patrol alone” (quote from an experienced senior police officer).
Paper police
In Stockholm, minor crimes reported to the police never lead to anything other than registration so that the victim of the crime can receive insurance compensation. Take damage to parked cars as an example. Someone bumps into your car when it is parked and then disappears without leaving any note so that you can get in touch. The insurance company requires you to report this to the police.
You go to the police station where a person enters your personal details, registration number, scene of the damage and the date. A copy is printed out for you. No charge. No police officer looks at your vehicle, you do not need to sign and certify that your information is accurate or make a sketch of what happened, and if you offer pictures they are not accepted.
The police do nothing at all with your report, apart from giving it a case number and entering it in the statistics. This bureaucracy creates a number of jobs at the police authority, which is the only positive result. If that is positive?
Award-winning chief of police
Ms Carin Götblad, chief commander for a useless police department
The Swedish police manage to catch a perpetrator in four (4!) per cent of all crimes. The Stockholm police force consists of 4,000 employees. The Chief Commissioner, Carin Götblad, has been presented with the “Leader of the Year” award. So I cannot rule out the possibility that Carin Götblad really is a skilled corporate leader. But theStockholmpolice is without doubt useless as an organisation.
So you could ask whether it would have been even worse if Carin Götblad had not been a good leader? Or should one draw the conclusion that you can be a good leader, or rather be considered a good leader, even if the organisation you lead is doing an extremely bad job?
By Lars-Kristian Bergh
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Yes, even in violent backward USA, and in America’s largest ”blackhead” filled city, New York; unlike cities in Sweden, our gas stations are staffed 24/7, and the subway system has less crime than one apartment block in Malmo…Unlike Sweden, which has an appalling rate of rape not unlike South Africa’s, big bad New York City, which has the same population as Sweden has less than 1/5 Sweden’s rape rate, and clears 70% of all rape cases, (and the same percentage of all crimes) as opposed to Sweden’s pathetic rape conviction rate of 3%. Is that your idea of a paradise for women? Instead of wallowing in some state dream of Scandipolitically correct lala land, Sweden’s toy bureaucratic welfare state cops and Stockholm’s hood ornament of a police chief, should come over here and take some real lessons in policing from Ray Kelly and the proud men and women of the NYPD in how to be a real cop; respected for being brave, tough, and thoroughly professional. We wouldn’t be caught dead in a 1000 years repainting our police cars with the name changed from ’police’ to ’asshole” in Turkic/Farsi. Have you all completely lost your minds??? Oh, and in the last year, make it any year, no school has ever been burned in New York City; what was it last year in Sweden, 457? And here in this violent backward evil giant American city, our firemen are our heroes, not targets…Give me the challenge of making my own way in life American style anyday; you drunk self righteous gutless zombies can keep your socialist paradise all to yourselves, thank you….
Ooh my god, swedish cops completely useless. Send the head of swedish police forces to us for a lesson. Or two…