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Sweden: Policing in brief

01 January 1996

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* The Court of Appeal (Svea Hovratt) has convicted the former chief of the CID, Tommy Lindstrom, for serious fraud. The sentence was a conditional imprisonment and the reason was that he had used "tip-off" money from an insurance company to arrange a big party for the police staff. The court however did not regarded it at punishable that Lindstrom had used faked documents in trying to get hold of some stolen paintings by Carl Larsson. Lindstrom has been suspended from duty ever since the suspicions were raised, and will now be dismissed. He is the fourth senior police officer in Sweden over the last few last years to have been sentenced and convicted to (conditional) imprisonment and convicted, but he is the first to be actually dismissed. * The Swedish police, from 1 February 1996, will be allowed to use hidden, remote-controlled, video-cameras while investigating suspected crimes which can result in more than two years imprisonment. Supervision, by a court, can only be given for a specific place over a specific period, but can be ordered as soon as someone is suspected on "reasonable grounds".

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