yesterday, The DN tell you that several deputy mayors around the country are critical to the list of ”vulnerable” and ”particularly vulnerable” areas that the police posted and updated in since 2015 is made public.
According to DN’s sources, nor NOAH, the Police national operations department, decided if or when this year’s list shall be published.
invigningstalade on the Crime prevention council’s annual conference in Gothenburg, sweden on Wednesday, believe that the list is a good tool.
– There is no reason to conceal it. It is important to have transparency and that we do not sweep any problems under the carpet, ” says Morgan Johansson.
Erik Pelling, S-councilor in Uppsala and one of those who want the municipality to be removed from the list, describes the list as ”an obsolete sword”.
– the Criteria for getting on that is not transparent. It makes it hard to know what we as municipalities are supposed to do. We’ll have a little extra police resources – but it is not enough for the rest limping, ” he says.
that there is no reason to keep secret the list – even if he thinks it has a stigmatizing and counterproductive effect.
” the Police have already released the genie out of the bottle, so to speak. In this mode, it is better that the police become even more open to us municipalities, so that we know what we have to do to get away from it, ” says Erik Pelling.
In Morgan Johansson’s opening speech during the Crime conference in Gothenburg, sweden, he promised that the government next week will present a new bet on precisely the vulnerable areas, money must be allocated by the Delegation against segregation.
He could not, however, specify how the bet looks.
– We will come back in the question, was the only answer he could give.
was promised 20 billion over a ten – year period- but the money ”disappeared” with the M+KD’s budget went through.
Before the inaugural speech at the conference visited the minister of justice, the full ones custody in Gothenburg:
” the Situation is a sign that the police as law enforcement become more effective and that the number of straffskärpningar and other criminal policy decision that the government made started to take effect, said Morgan Johansson.
”not stress enough that law enforcement and crime prevention must go hand in hand.”
“I see many signs that it brottförebyggande work, everything works better”, said the minister of justice.
Even Karin Svanberg, head of unit at Brå, see signs that crime prevention has been developed. However, there is a big but:
An evaluation of the two most recent years of crime prevention as Crime were presented during the conference shows that the local brottsförebyggarna in the municipalities, they do the job, do not perceive that the work is a priority – despite all the fine words.
We have a strange situation on paper never had so many – yet there still is a lack områdespoliser in a majority of the municipalities. In a fifth of them, there is no områdespolis at all, ” she says.
pointed on several examples of crime prevention work that has been done over the last two years that has proved to give good effect.
He highlighted, in particular, in Seved, and the Manor house in Malmö, and in the Village, Nordstan and Gårdsten, in Göteborg, sweden.
Where have brottskurvorna been broken, and recruitment into the criminal gangs decreased. This is not least thanks to the traders and property owners to a greater extent during the last few years engaged in geographically limited projects. They are called Business Improvement Districts (BID) and means that the property owners together with residents and public actors lift an area by, for example, investment in the public environment, real estate and security enhancement measures.
is that it is constantly talked about the importance of the interaction between these civil society actors and the authorities begin to put into practice.
” We are also confident that the efforts of the so-called situationell brottsprevention, for example, increased video surveillance, going to work in crime prevention.
the Government will not, however, make any targeted funding specifically on the local crime prevention work.
” WE are already doing a range of broader bets on law enforcement. To local stakeholders in the municipalities, those who make a real difference, I can only say to continue to interact as you do – it is what it basically comes down to, he said to the 600 practitioners, police officers and researchers participating in the conference.
