Rikskriminalpolisen

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Swedish police tackle child sex abuse abroad

National: 20 Dec 09
Police are working on measures to make it easier to report Swedes who have sexually assaulted children abroad in a bid to encourage tourists to relay suspicions against compatriots leaving the country to pay for sex with children. READ »

Dozens arrested in Swedish doping raid

National: 9 Dec 09
Swedish police have arrested 40 people in a nationwide doping raid, according to a statement. READ »

Seven arrests as police smash trafficking ring

National: 7 Dec 09
Police in Sweden arrested seven people on Monday morning for their suspected role in a human trafficking network. READ »

Elk, not husband, killed Swedish woman: police

Society: 1 Dec 09
A Swedish man suspected of killing his 63-year-old wife has been exonerated after forensic analysis revealed the woman’s death was caused by an elk. READ »

Arrests made in global drug ring raid

National: 21 Nov 09
Three people have been arrested in Stockholm and held on suspicion of the illegal sale of prescription drugs, including diet pills and impotence treatment, as part of a international police operation. READ »

Two helicopter suspects remanded in custody

National: 30 Sep 09
Two men suspected of involvement in last week's daring helicopter heist have been remanded in custody by a Stockholm court. A third man has been released, while the remand hearing for a fourth suspect was postponed until Thursday. READ »

Police probe Serb ties to helicopter heist

National: 29 Sep 09
Police in Serbia suspect the mastermind behind last week's brazen helicopter heist is a 40-year-old Bosnian Serb living in Belgrade known as the 'gangster king'. READ »

Several arrests made in helicopter heist probe

National: 27 Sep 09
Several people were arrested on Sunday afternoon for their suspected involvement in last week’s spectacular helicopter robbery of a cash depot south of Stockholm. READ »

Hunt continues for helicopter robbers

National: 24 Sep 09
Swedish police continue to hunt for suspects and faced criticism following the well-orchestrated, helicopter-aided theft at a cash depot in Västberga south of Stockholm on Wednesday. READ »

Stockholm cash depot hit by helicopter heist

National: 23 Sep 09
Robbers used a helicopter to carry out a spectacular theft at a cash depot south of Stockholm early Wednesday morning. The helicopter was found later in the morning about 30 kilometres north of the crime scene. READ »

Wife held for murder of Swedish 'oil millionaire'

National: 9 Sep 09
Four people - including the wife of the victim - have been arrested for their involvement in the murder of a 45-year-old business man outside his home in Fagersta in central Sweden in April. READ »

Ransom demanded for missing Arctic Sea

National: 16 Aug 09
The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation has confirmed that a ransom has been demanded for the missing cargo ship Arctic Sea, which disappeared off the Swedish coast last month. READ »

Dozens questioned in Nordic child porn raid

National: 16 Jun 09
Police in four Nordic countries carried out a join action on Tuesday morning to break up a suspected child pornography ring. READ »

'Allow foreign police in Sweden': minister

National: 25 Apr 09
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. READ »

Five charged for heroin smuggling

National: 28 Nov 08
Five men were charged in Malmö on Friday for transporting 19 kilogrammes of heroin, half of which was confiscated in Serbia. READ »

Huge doping ring uncovered in Sweden

National: 21 Oct 08
Swedish police rounded up 40 people on Tuesday in series of pre-dawn raids across the country in an effort to crack a massive doping scam. READ »

Bust nets ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ accomplice

National: 21 Jul 08
Swedish police reported on Sunday that Clark Olofsson, one of Sweden’s most notorious career criminals, was among six suspects arrested in a massive narcotics raid over the weekend. READ »

War criminals face fresh Swedish probes

National: 4 Jul 08
Sweden's National Investigation Department has intensified the hunt for war criminals living withing the country's borders. READ »

National Investigators interrogate missing girl suspect

National: 13 Apr 08
The 42-year-old man suspected of abducting 10-year-old Engla Höglund will be interrogated by officers from the National Investigation Department while members of the National Home Guard continued searching for the missing girl. READ »

Wave of illegal weapons hits Sweden

Society: 9 Feb 08
Weapons crimes have increased by 20 percent in Sweden since 2000. READ »

Police turn to web search in child porn fight

Science & Technology: 12 Jul 07
The Swedish police has joined forces with image search company Picsearch as part of its fight against child pornography on the internet. READ »

More cannabis in Sweden than previously thought

Society: 11 Jun 07
Swedish authorities have seriously underestimated the size of the country's cannabis market, according to a new police report. Around 25-30 tonnes of cannabis are sold in Sweden every year, rather than the 3 tonnes previously estimated. READ »

Police informer in court on child porn charge

National: 20 Mar 06
The man was a paid informer of the Swedish police. But according to the prosecution, he was one of Europe's leading distributors of child porgnography. His trial opened today. READ »

Swedish 12 year old ?kidnapped? in Thailand

National: 3 Jan 05
Concern grows for a Swedish boy who has gone missing in Thailand, despite appearing to have survived the Asian tsunami. READ »


Blog Update: Boston Blatte

18 March 01:36

Bathroom culture: the sewer of the cultural soul. »

"As I stood in line to pee (had to ponder which word to call the “facilities” and decided to skip it entirely–didn’t want to alienate the Canadians, Brits, Irish and Antipodeans) at Berns, a posh night club venue in Stockholm, for the first ever comedy for the International Comedy Night (sheesh, that’s a long sentence..." READ »

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