“Squeak in the fight against organised crime”
“A group of heavy authorities have been instructed to jointly fight organized crime.”
“But the cooperation has major flaws, shows a review from the national audit office.”
“– No-one knows not how much money, time and effort that is put on it here. Not what we get for the money, ” says Susanna Honnér, who led the examination.”
“the Large resources spent on the joint effort against serious organised crime, where the twelve great authorities.”
“But it is difficult to say how successful the collaboration has been.”
“the Government, which initiated the project in 2008, has not set up some concrete goals, more than to the organised crime should be combated. At the same time, the authorities can’t disclose what cooperation has yielded actual results, considers the national audit office, which reviewed the governance and the follow-up of the joint project.”
” It is a fairly extensive operations. After ten years, should the government and the responsible authorities to know more about what the effects. The objective to combat organised crime – how close are we? says Susanna Honnér, project manager for the study.”
“the 2.8 million working hours.”
“The last five years, the authorities have added more than 2.8 million hours and 1.4 billion on the venture – think it. The authorities have not been able to show more than estimates of how much ploughed down in cooperation.”
“– the Majority of the authorities can’t say how much time and money that has been put on the regional level and it is where most of the common efforts, ” says Susanna Honnér.”
“Several authorities have stated, however, that money is a problem. Some earmarked funds are not available for cooperation, without authorities to finance their efforts in the myndighetsöverskridande the project with money from their own budgets. It could lead to that the authorities must weigh its own operations against the common law enforcement, according to the national audit office.”
“the Authorities make joint decisions about which actions to do together, but since none of them can rule over someone else, it is up to each authority how much each bet should be a priority.”
“At the government level, the project is in limbo, shows review. Four ministries are involved, but none of them have samordningsansvar. There is no overall analysis, and no regular follow-up. Although all twelve authorities are expected to be part of the collaboration, none of them has had it mandated by the government since 2017. The police have a mandate to report back on the work – but in the instruction says nothing about the work itself.”
“the national audit office recommends the government to clarify the governance and follow-up the activities better, while the authorities are encouraged to make it possible to assess the benefits and costs of their cooperation.”
” We have no reason to believe that it is not a well-functioning business. Among the authorities, the picture is that it is the best way to access this type of crime. But there is no one who knows how effective it is, ” says Susanna Honnér.”
“Twelve agencies included in the cooperation: public employment service, the serious fraud office, the social Insurance office, the Swedish migration board, the prison and Probation service, the Swedish Enforcement authority, the coast guard, the Police, the Swedish Tax agency, the Swedish security service, the Customs service and the Prosecutor’s office.”
“the joint project is focused on the organised crime that is deemed to be serious or extensive.”
“Since 2015 working also on the problem in the vulnerable areas.”
