March 18, 2010
The following articles have been tagged with "Rikskriminalpolisen":
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.
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National: 9 Dec 09
Swedish police have arrested 40 people in a nationwide doping raid, according to a statement.
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National: 7 Dec 09
Police in Sweden arrested seven people on Monday morning for their suspected role in a human trafficking network.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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National: 4 Jul 08
Sweden's National Investigation Department has intensified the hunt for war criminals living withing the country's borders.
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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.
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Society: 9 Feb 08
Weapons crimes have increased by 20 percent in Sweden since 2000.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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National: 3 Jan 05
Concern grows for a Swedish boy who has gone missing in Thailand, despite appearing to have survived the Asian tsunami.
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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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