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Police boss to be moved

National: 7 Dec 07
National Police Commissioner Stefan Strömberg is to be moved from his job, the Justice Department has been said. READ »

Sweden's police chief 'quits' after row

National: 7 Dec 07
Sweden's top police officer is reported to have resigned after disagreements with the government and regional police chiefs. READ »

Outrage at bomb attack on prosecutor

National: 20 Nov 07
Sweden's justice minister, Beatrice Ask, joins the country's top policeman and top prosecutor in expressing outrage at a bomb attack on a prosecutor's home. READ »

Swedish Mafia: fighting a losing battle

Lifestyle: 8 Nov 07
To an outsider, Sweden would seem an unlikely place to find rising gang crime. But the problem has snowballed since the nineties, leaving police clamouring for better tools to deal with the problem. Daniel Boman reports. READ »

'Sweden needs its own FBI' - police chief

National: 22 Sep 07
Sweden's police chief has called for a new national authority for fighting organised crime. Speaking in an interview with newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Stefan Strömberg said that Sweden needed its own FBI. READ »

Swedish police to launch new war crimes unit

National: 11 Sep 07
Sweden is to set up a new war crimes unit to help bring to justice the large numbers of war criminals thought to be hiding out in the country. READ »

Telia bosses cleared of Mamma Mia bribery

Business & Money: 31 Oct 06
Telia Sonera's CEO Anders Igel and the company's former Sweden boss Marie Ehrling have been found not guilty of bribery after inviting customers to a performance of Mamma Mia in Stockholm. READ »

Telia bosses on trial for Mamma Mia bribery

Business & Money: 9 Oct 06
The chief executive and and former Sweden boss of telecoms company Telia Sonera have gone on trial accused of bribing customers by inviting them to a performance of Abba musical Mamma Mia. READ »

Scrap community policing - police association

Society: 22 Apr 06
Three out of every four community police chiefs say they can't do a good job in vulnerable residential areas. The whole system should be scrapped, says the Swedish Police Association. READ »

Speeders face police clampdown

Society: 11 Apr 06
Swedish police have unveiled a strict new approach to drivers who break the speed limit. Rather than the current 15 kmh leeway, speeders who exceed the limit by just 6 kmh risk a fine. READ »

National plan to combat organised crime

National: 3 Apr 06
Police and prosecutors get an extra 100 million kronor to fight the rising tide of organised crime in Sweden. Criminals who threaten witnesses, plaintiffs, police and prosecutors must be stopped, says justice minister Thomas Bodström. READ »

Confidence in police at new low

National: 8 Nov 05
Swedish crime victims' confidence in the police force is failing, according to a new survey. But Justice Minister Thomas Bodström dismisses criticism, calling the survey "crackpot". READ »

Swedish police reported for "database of people's views"

National: 12 Jul 05
Racism, raves, satanism and vegan - just some of the categories in a database used by the police to follow up crimes. Now the Data Inspection Board will follow up allegations that the categories can be linked to individuals - which is illegal. READ »

Telia bosses in musical bribe probe

Business & Money: 29 Jun 05
TeliaSonera chief executive Anders Igel is being facing questioning over bribery allegations, after the company treated 200 bosses to an evening at Abba musical Mamma Mia and a buffet dinner. READ »

Green party proposes state loans for immigrant businesses

Politics: 16 Mar 05
Immigrants earn less than people born in Sweden, get arrested more often and are sentenced to longer jail terms. But the good news is that the Green party thinks the state should offer loans to immigrants wanting to start businesses. READ »

Over 100 Swedish children confirmed missing

National: 5 Jan 05
Police announce that over 100 of more than 700 Swedes confirmed missing are under the age of 20. And with another 1201 Swedes whose whereabouts are unknown, the country comes to a standstill for three minutes silence in honour of all of the victims of Asia's tsunami catastrophe. READ »


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Sweden strips foreign doctoral candidates of the same rights as other tax-paying migrant workers, argue a group of doctoral candidates from the Royal Institute for Technology (KTH).
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