On Thursday held a new secret meeting, a so-called ”call-in” with with nine people from the Malmö gängmiljö and a number of representatives from authorities and civil society. The meetings are a part of the initiative ”Stop the slide”, which has been going on for a year, and is based on a methodology imported from the U.S.
to the serious reduction in violence thanks to the project. Since the first so-called ”call-in”meeting in October 2018, there have been five firings against the person in Malmö, one of which with a fatal outcome.
” It is too early to say that we see a reversal of the trend but the fact is that we have fewer firings than in the past. Much is about that we have effective prevention cooperation at the same time that we have had success in several of our investigations, ” says Jonas Karlberg, squad leader for Serious crimes in Malmö.
in Addition to a reduced number of firings to see the police more effects of the bet. A total of 99 people been detained in the polisområde Malmö during this period, of which 31 for serious violent crimes.
Right now we have about thirty detainees influential criminals in ongoing investigations. At the same time, there are two major trials relating to serious violent crimes. Eight criminals have been extradited to Spain suspected of serious violent crimes. In addition, we have between 11 October 2018 and 31 march 2019 seized eighty of illegal weapons, ” says Jonas Karlberg.
Anna Kosztovics, the city of Malmö and the project leader of Stop slide, Jonas Angermund, Probation, and coordinator of the Stop slide, the Glen Sjögren, the police and the coordinator of the Stop slide, Jonas Karlberg, police, squad leader for Serious crimes in Malmö, sweden, during a press briefing on the initiative to Stop the slide of the method during probation in Malmö. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
between the police, the city of Malmö, the correctional system and civil society. The aim is to jointly shall make it more difficult to be grossly criminal and to offer support for those who want to leave their old way of life. The so-called ”call-in”meetings are the backbone of the work. Hit offered leading criminal check – the idea is that they should then pass the information on to others in their network.
” the Message is that it must be hard to keep up with the people driving the violence and that the pressure should come from the authorities but also from within the groups. You should not like the risk to be with in the most violent group because you will get the authorities on all the time. The one who is absent from meetings risk imprisonment, ” says Jonas Angermund from the prison and Probation service and the coordinator of the ”Stop slide”.
in Addition to ”call in”meetings sought other gängkriminella up in the home for individual calls.
” Those we visit receive the same message: there are new rules in town and that we can give them a helping hand – it is the most important. The response when we have been the home of these guys is ”Thank you, we are tired of shooting”. So it feels a bit like we are on the right path, many are tired, ” says Glen Sjögren, the police, and he is also the coordinator of the Stop slide.
A 16-year-old was hit by several shots inside at a pizza place in Malmö in december 2018. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT
there have been hundreds of targeted checks against criminal gangs in Malmö since October.
– It deals with everything from traffic offences to vapenbrott and other serious crime, there is zero-tolerance. The attention from the us makes it more difficult to commit criminal acts, while we let other authorities working against them.
Malmöpolisen appreciate that today there are about 205 multikriminella in the city. An important part of the work of the ”Stop slide” is to prevent new recruitment.
” It’s all about discovering early on and a visibility from the social authorities. We have had an extreme situation in Malmö the last year. It has done that all in the city of Malmö wanted to contribute. I have worked as a police officer out on Malmö’s streets for over twenty years and think I never I have seen such a good cooperation between the police, probation and social services in the past, ” says Glen Sjögren.
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