February 13, 2012
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Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask wants foreign police to be able to operate in Sweden. A committee of inquiry will be set up to look into ways in which this might work.
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Police officers from other countries will be shocked at how lenient and lazy police in Sweden are.
However the excahnge of police officers and ideas, will most likely help to improve the police in Sweden. Any problems regarding inter ountry police cooperation will be exchanged at minsterial level, allowing problems to be raised more effectively and possible dealt with.
Sweden needs more determined, agressive, police who actually give a damn what is happening in there country and want to improve there society.
For to long Sweden has had a policy of turn a blind eye as long as possible to criminals. Having other police forces in Sweden can only help to expose that and in the long term help the police here to put criminals in jail.
To talk about a joint venture between the countries of scandinavia is one thing but to include the rest of the world is another.
"..when foreign police officers would be allowed to carry weapons and under what circumstances they would be permitted to intervene" - This is a threat to the sovereignty of any nation.
Beware I tell you or we heading towards China/American style police state.
uh, bush is gone now!
should swedes respect chinese police the same way as swedish police? say, they want to search your house, and show you their chinese police card, and you cooperate?
it feels weird.
but on the other hand, if the crime rate goes up, we blame the chinese and the british for not enforcing the law here, I suppose.
nice try.
"Beware I tell you or we heading towards China/American style police state. "
- tell me why so many chinese want to move to the states, but not the other way around?
I guess one of the consequences of freedom is that we have to live with this kind of crap.
Nobody is talking about inviting the CIA in (besides that happens anyways) but I saw Swedish police helping in Copenhagen and I was glad for it. Sometimes there are moments when good neigbors just need to help each other out. And then it is nice to be able to do so.
You didn't finish your sentence.
Nothing or Less is almost known about what is going near the borders of all these Scandinavian countries - This will only not help the Nordic countries' security but also it will be a security measure that will help all the EU countries and it will also be an exemplary step for many countries European nations.
And, all in all, before introducing innovative ways of international cooperation, we may discuss how to improve the efficiency of the Swedish Police... let´s not try to find abroad solutions to our internal problems... the other countries are not better than Sweden in terms of safety and security (I would say the opposite!)
By any normal standards a treasonous act.
Now our "conservative"/moderate minister of Justice, Beatrice Ask, wants to allow foreign police to operate in Sweden.
Thereby taking a another step to abolish our national sovereignty.
Is this constitutional or did we abolish our constitution when we joined the EU in 1994?
Most dimwits think the proposition to allow foreign police to operate in Sweden is excellent. I mean, how stupid can you get?
People don't deserve freedom. They are actually too stupid.
That's some comfort, anyway.
P.S. The idiots in the intelligence community might very well find talk of "a treanous act" reason enough to start monitoring me for suspected "right wing extremism" or something.
given you are obviously intelligent, articulated and an all round good egg perhaps you could enlighten dimwits with a rational arguments. Something more than the something bad was done a long time ago, and therefore it must be the same today.
Also why is allowing police officer to operate in sweden a abolishment of sovereignty. Operate is not the same as prosecution. If an under cover policeman is risking his/her life and he needs to cross a border should the swedish police cooperate with and allow the operation, or should he/she tell the bad guys, sorry can't cross this border due to not being allowed as its an infringement of sovereignty?
Do you see any benefits where inter cooperation of police forces would help combat international crimes.
that said, anyone operating her should be subject to swedish law ie sending people off on a CIA airplane is not a good thing.
Its about balance.