Armed forces, police to jointly fight gang violence in Sweden: PM

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Swedish Armed Forces have been called in to help police forces fight the recent increase in organized crime, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told a press conference here on Friday.

The armed forces are well equipped to deal with explosives and IT forensics as well as to organize helicopter transports. They also have extensive analytical skills that make them competent to assess risk scenarios, Kristersson said.

The Defense Radio Agency (FRA), a civilian authority under the Ministry of Defence, will also be tasked with assisting the police with signals intelligence, Kristersson said.

"We have increased their funding to enable them to step up their signals intelligence activities on serious cross-border crime," Kristersson said.

Legislation allowing preventive wiretapping to stop shootings, bombings and other crimes linked to organized crime before they are committed will take effect on Sunday, following a decision made earlier this year.

Kristersson also said that the decision to let the police force request help from the Armed Forces is only a first step and the police will be given additional powers.

In a 2020 study that analyzed criminal activity in 23 European countries, the Crime Prevention Council found that between 2000 and 2019, Sweden had gone from having the lowest number of shootings to having the highest number of incidents.

That trend has since continued, and two shootings and a bomb attack that claimed three lives on Wednesday night and Thursday morning brought the September death toll to 12, a level not seen in a single month since 2019.

There have been more than 130 bombings in Sweden since January, surpassing last year's total of 90 incidents.

The majority of the shootings and bombings are believed to be related to organized crime, and many of the victims and suspects are in their teens.


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