The young nätverkskriminella does not shoot rarely kill, but they also shoot in a larger extent for the damage. So look regionpolischef Ulf Johansson’s picture of how the violence between the networks that control the drug and arms trade in Stockholm and its surrounding municipalities developed during the year.
he’s right. So far the year has eleven people died and 47 skottskadats in the gängkriminella the network environment. Last year died of 18 and 39 were injured. The year before it died nine people and injuring 43. Each of these police investigations consume considerable resources and that the DN previously told you yesterday, fewer and fewer of them to prosecution or lead to a conviction.
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– It is extremely difficult to get people to tell what they had seen. Neither the witnesses or the plaintiffs themselves want to talk with us. We seriously need to start building on our confidence in the affected areas, to show that we really want to and have the capacity to put an end to the cycle of violence, ” says Ulf Johansson.
thousand west with 130 ongoing investigations and with the intelligence and reconnaissance work related to the rough skjutvapenbrottsligheten.
– It is extremely difficult to get people to tell what they had seen, ” says Ulf Johansson. Photo: Lisa Mattisson
During the year, the police have taken over 800 weapons seized, which is a 30% increase compared with last year. A hundred people have been detained for roughly vapenbrott, much thanks to the stricter legislation that makes it possible to arrest persons found in possession of weapons.
according to the police, around 50 people are arrested or detained for the murder. The most high profile are the cases with Shayan, 22, who was shot to death by mistake and the case with the 20-year-old who was shot to death in an apartment in Enskede on Sunday, 16 december – both are cases where the police have relatively quickly been able to seize the suspects.
We have an urgent requirements, not least on the utredningssidan.
– We have an urgent requirements, not least on the utredningssidan. At the same time, I want to say that we have during the year has strengthened our ability when it comes to intelligence gathering. We have a better grip on the gängkriminella network environment than ever before, claims Ulf Johansson.
it is in the day 10-15 different networks in the Stockholm area, whose conflicts could lead to deadly violence. Somewhere between 500 and 600 individuals with links to these are now mapped to 20 of these individuals is ”högintressanta”.
– We are so close to them as possible, rush them, it locks up when it goes. We do everything for it to be extremely hard to belong to these networks. Now we have also better detailed information about them. When there is a murder, we often direct more ideas which do that they can launch with full power faster, ” says Ulf Johansson.
out to the various units investigating serious violent crimes in the county is to focus on the drugs and the guns. To get away the guns, not the least of handgranaterna, is a first step to reduce mortality. Last week was a crackdown on an apartment, which police describe as an ”arms factory”. Three people are now in custody, suspected of extremely serious vapenbrott in this case.
– We have also been able to fend off the deadly violence in other conflicts, through the knowledge we have. However, it is the case, we can’t go into detail, but I interpret it as that we acquired a better grip and that it pays to bet also on the prevention of conflicts in the criminal environment, ” says Ulf Johansson.
We make every effort to be extremely hard to belong to these networks.
for 2019 is to re-growth among the young criminal is strong. If one disappears, is it a ten on the turn, ready to take over.
In January this year, shot a 24-year-old to death at a pizzeria in Rinkeby. A 16-year-old boy has been convicted of murder. Photo: Fredrik Sandberg/TT
” We have said it before and we’ll say it again. The police alone can not deal with it here. The school, social services, municipalities and civil society must have the resources required to reduce the risk factors.
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Next year hope Ulf Johansson on being able to nyrekrytera the 1,500 police officers and 300 civilian employees to the police department in Stockholm.
the Police alone can not deal with it here. The school, social services, municipalities and civil society must have the resources required to reduce the risk factors.
– In combination with that we become better and get better tools so I hope that we shall succeed in breaking the cycle of violence. It is absolutely necessary.
Footnote: Here you can read named Anders Thornbergs and regionpolischef Ulf Johansson’s wish list to the government on measures to break the trend when it comes to public order and security, linked to the vulnerable areas.
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