Police

The following articles have been tagged with "Police":

Sharp increase in asylum seeker deportations

National: 9 Feb 10
The number of asylum seekers deported from Sweden rose by 1,300 during 2009, according to new figures from the Swedish Migration Agency. READ »

Three arrested for killing of Swedish soldiers

National: 9 Feb 10
Three men have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of being connected to the the death of Swedish soldiers Johan Palmlöv and Gunnar Andersson near Mazar-e Sharif on Sunday. READ »

Man shot on Stockholm street

National: 9 Feb 10
A 29-year-old man was shot on Södermalm in Stockholm on Monday night. He was hit in the leg and in the shoulder, but was able to call an ambulance. No one has been arrested as the man refuses to talk to the police. READ »

Swedish soldiers killed by 'Afghan police'

National: 8 Feb 10
Military police are conducting an investigation into reports that the two Swedish military officers killed in Afghanistan on Sunday were attacked by a police officer. READ »

Stockholm policeman warned after Thai brothel visit

Society: 8 Feb 10
A Stockholm police officer has been reminded of his responsibilities after being caught in a Thai massage parlour under surveillance by the vice squad. READ »

Asylum seeker held 18 months on remand

National: 8 Feb 10
Mehdi Kadirou, a rejected asylum seeker, has been kept locked up for 18 months in an Uppsala cell while the police and migration authorities decide where to return him. READ »

Six injured in Stockholm fire

National: 8 Feb 10
Six people suffered smoke injuries, with one also sustaining burns, in a fire which ravaged an apartment block in Östermalm in central Stockholm on Sunday. READ »

Flight crews warned off the booze

National: 6 Feb 10
Sweden has always been very tough about drunk driving on the nation’s highways. New regulations are now being extended to flight crews. READ »

Appeals court confirms Stureby killing sentences

National: 5 Feb 10
The Svea Court of Appeal has confirmed the sentences for the two teenagers convicted in the killing of 15-year-old Therese Johansson Rojo in the Stockholm suburb of Stureby last summer. READ »

Woman seriously injured in rooftop snowfall

National: 5 Feb 10
A 55-year-old woman was seriously injured by falling snow from the roof of a building in Blackeberg in Stockholm on Thursday. The cold snap has led to a record number of reports from worried pedestrians over hanging ice. READ »

Newspaper cleared of defaming ex-Lindh murder suspect

Society: 4 Feb 10
Southern Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan has been cleared of libel charges after being sued by the initial suspect in the murder of Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh in 2002. READ »

Justice Minister reluctant to store data

National: 4 Feb 10
The European Court of Justice has told Sweden that it must implement a 2006 measure requiring telecom operators to store information about their customers’ phone calls and emails. But Justice Minister Beatrice Ask remains sceptical. READ »

Swedish pensioner murdered in Egypt

National: 4 Feb 10
A 62-year-old Swede has been found dead in her apartment in the tourist resort of Hurghada in Egypt. Police suspect murder. READ »

No injuries at tennis club as roof collapses

National: 3 Feb 10
Police and rescue workers have allayed fears that players had been injured or become trapped after a roof collapsed at a tennis hall outside Södertälje on Wednesday evening. READ »

Swedish police conduct file sharing raid

National: 3 Feb 10
Suspected file sharers were targeted in four raids at locations across Sweden on Tuesday, as police acted on information from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). READ »

Lindh murder suspect sues newspaper for defamation

National: 3 Feb 10
A libel case involving Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan and the initial suspect in the murder of Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh in 2002 opened in a Malmö court on Wednesday. READ »

Arrest warrant for Swede over Auschwitz sign theft

National: 2 Feb 10
Police in Poland have issued a warrant for the arrest of Anders Högström, a former neo-Nazi recently indicted over the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the Auschwitz death camp. READ »

Brit arrested for filming onboard plane

National: 2 Feb 10
A 37-year-old British citizen has been arrested in Sweden after staff on a Ryanair plane claimed they spotted him secretly filming their security procedures. READ »

Ex-boyfriend charged with brutal assault

National: 2 Feb 10
A 21-year-old man has been charged with the brutal assault of his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend in Kristianstad in southern Sweden in November. READ »

Doctor charged over baby's death

National: 1 Feb 10
The paediatrician suspected of the alleged mercy killing of a baby at Astrid Lindgren's Children's Hospital in Stockholm in September 2008 has been charged with manslaughter. READ »

Jilted hubby exacts mousy revenge

Society: 1 Feb 10
A 59-year-old man has been arrested for using his ex-wife's musophobia to wreak a cruel revenge for their break up after he pushed 19 mice through her letter box on Sunday morning. READ »

Stockholm mum charged over Polish 'slaves'

National: 1 Feb 10
A mother of four has been charged with trafficking and other offences after keeping her Polish nannies and cleaner under "slave-like" conditions in her Solna home. READ »

Snow causes traffic havoc in western Sweden

National: 1 Feb 10
Snow falls caused extensive traffic problems on Sunday night and into Monday morning. Several accidents occurred in western Sweden while no fatalities were reported. READ »

'No sex ring links to ex-police chief'

National: 31 Jan 10
Media reports linking a high profile sex ring to a former police chief suspected of rape and plotting to rape minors are untrue, according to the police officer leading the investigation. READ »

Fatal shooting in central Malmö

Society: 31 Jan 10
A 26-year-old man was shot dead in Malmö in southern Sweden early on Sunday morning. READ »

Referee killed by ice hockey puck

National: 31 Jan 10
An ice-hockey referee died on Saturday when he was hit by a puck during a game. READ »

Class 1 weather warning for south-east Sweden

National: 30 Jan 10
The Swedish Met Office (SMHI) has issued a class 1 warning for the Österlen area of Skåne, southern Sweden, over the next two days with strong winds and more heavy snowfall expected. READ »

Police raids uncover cannabis-growing network

National: 30 Jan 10
Six men have been arrested on suspicion of growing cannabis in three apartments in the Stockholm area. Police believe the green-fingered gang are part of an extensive network of plant growers and dealers. READ »

Politician caught with child pornography stash

Politics: 30 Jan 10
A Moderate Party politician in Stockholm has been arrested and charged with possessing child pornography material including a collection of films and photographs. READ »

Car explodes at Stockholm petrol station

National: 29 Jan 10
Two people were injured on Friday afternoon when a car exploded at a Statoil service station in a Stockholm suburb. READ »

Married couple found dead in cellar

National: 29 Jan 10
A married couple in their sixties have been found dead in the cellar of their home near Sollefteå in northern Sweden. Police believe they may have died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. READ »

Ex-police chief remanded in sex ring probe

National: 28 Jan 10
A former police chief suspected of rape in an expanding sex ring investigation was remanded in custody on Thursday, despite his claims of innocence. A number of other well-known men are also said to be under investigation. READ »

Dissident demo over Iran Interpol listing

Politics: 28 Jan 10
Ten Iranian-born Swedes plan to stage a protest outside the Riksdag on Thursday in a bid to have the Swedish government help get their names removed from an Interpol wanted list. READ »

Snow prompts traffic trouble across Sweden

National: 28 Jan 10
Reports of traffic accidents continued to flood in from all parts of Sweden overnight as heavy snowfalls made driving conditions hazardous. READ »

Swede awarded UN top job in Afghanistan

National: 28 Jan 10
Long-serving Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura has been appointed by UN chief Ban Ki-moon as his new envoy to Afghanistan. READ »

Jews flee Malmö as anti-Semitism grows

Society: 27 Jan 10
Threats and harassment are becoming increasingly commonplace for Jewish residents in Malmö in southern Sweden, leading many Jews to leave the city out of fear for their safety. READ »

Ex-police chief arrested for rape

National: 27 Jan 10
A former high-ranking police official has been arrested in central Sweden on suspicion of raping a woman and attempting to rape several children. READ »

Snowstorms hit traffic and preschool kids

Science & Technology: 27 Jan 10
A preschool was evacuated in western Sweden on Wednesday as high winds threatened to topple a 55-metre chimney. Heavy snowfall has also played havoc with traffic nationwide. READ »

Police shoot student at Swedish college

National: 26 Jan 10
A knife-wielding student at a college in western Sweden is recovering in hospital after being shot by a police officer on Tuesday morning. READ »

Sportsman in hate speech row over Tottenham anti-Jew 'joke'

Sport: 26 Jan 10
A Swedish bandy player has been reported for hate speech after calling for Liverpool to "push forward harder than the Germans did on the Night of the Broken Glass" in their recent match against Tottenham. READ »

Police raid uncovers Aladdin's cave of stolen goods

National: 25 Jan 10
A police raid in southern Sweden has led to the discovery of a dazzling array of stolen goods that includes everything from fittings for an entire kitchen to a spiral staircase. READ »

Tourist wounded in Malmö shooting

National: 25 Jan 10
A foreign tourist and a local teen were shot in in the Sofielund neighbourhood of Malmö in southern Sweden on Sunday night. READ »

Double murder victim 'shot through the eye'

National: 24 Jan 10
At least one of the two victims of a brutal double murder in southern Sweden earlier this month was shot through the eye in a gangland-style execution. READ »

Online sex 'grooming' law lacks teeth

Society: 24 Jan 10
Despite surveys indicating half of Swedish girls under 15 have received online sexual advances, Sweden's 'anti-grooming' law has not led to any convictions since entering into force six months ago. READ »

Burger King trades blows with regulator over headbutt advert

Society: 22 Jan 10
The Swedish advertising ombudsman has upheld a number of complaints about a Burger King TV advertisement showing one chef headbutting another in a cooking contest feud. READ »

Murder suspect crashes victims' memorial service

National: 21 Jan 10
A 35-year-old man suspected of a double murder in southwestern Sweden unexpectedly showed up at a memorial service arranged by the family of the victims. READ »

Boy charged for Gothenburg sex attacks

National: 20 Jan 10
A 16-year-old boy has been charged in connection with more than a dozen sexual attacks in Gothenburg last autumn which left area residents fearful of the so-called ‘babyface’ rapist. READ »

Police hunt for double murder suspect

National: 19 Jan 10
Police in southern Sweden have put out a warrant for the arrest of a 35-year old man for the murder of two men found in the trunk of a burning car near Halmstad on Sweden's west coast earlier this month. READ »

Girl fined for Sweden Democrat egg attack

Society: 19 Jan 10
A 17-year old girl was convicted on Tuesday for an egg attack on the leader of the far-right Sweden Democrat party, Jimmie Åkesson, during a rally by the party in Linköping in central Sweden last May. READ »

Swede slams English use for royal wedding bash

Society: 18 Jan 10
A slogan chosen by the city of Stockholm to promote events related to the June 2010 wedding of Crown Princess Victoria has been reported to the Ombudsmen of Justice for violating Sweden’s language laws. READ »

Paedophile site reported for privacy violations

Society: 18 Jan 10
A website featuring personal information about Swedes convicted of sex crimes involving children has been reported to the police by Sweden's Data Inspection Board. READ »

Teenage boy killed by train

National: 18 Jan 10
A teenage boy has died after being hit by a commuter train north of Stockholm on Monday morning. READ »

Thousands of drivers in Saab support road rally

National: 18 Jan 10
More than 2,000 Saab drivers filled a several kilometre stretch of road in the Swedish automaker's home town on Sunday in a demonstration of support for the beloved brand in the face of a decision by owner GM to wind it down. READ »

Sweden probes webcam paedophile suspect

National: 17 Jan 10
A man from southern Sweden is suspected of committing numerous sexual crimes on the internet with underage girls, perhaps hundreds. READ »

Bunny dance fraudster gets three years in jail

Society: 15 Jan 10
A man claiming to be wheelchair bound has been jailed for three years after he was caught on camera dancing with a rabbit mascot at an amusement park in western Sweden. READ »

Facebook groups prone to new sabotage trend

National: 15 Jan 10
Facebook users in Sweden are being plagued by a new trend sweeping the popular social networking site where names of groups are being changed to titles with vulgar sexual connotations. READ »

Three convicted for sex trafficking of Slovak teen

National: 14 Jan 10
Three men were sentenced to prison on Thursday for their role in a sex trafficking scheme in which a 17-year-old girl was forced to sell sex to several men in Skåne in southern Sweden. READ »

Helicopter suspect held on Caribbean island

National: 14 Jan 10
A 30-year-old Swedish man suspected of having a role in the brazen helicopter-aided robbery of a Stockholm cash depot has been arrested in the Dominican Republic. READ »

Swedish police crack down on Topdogz gang

National: 14 Jan 10
Six suspected gang members were arrested on Wednesday as police in southern Sweden seized weapons and explosives in a sting operation targeting the Topdogz criminal organization. READ »

Swede charged over Auschwitz sign theft

National: 14 Jan 10
The Swedish ex-Nazi who admitted to having a role in planning the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the World War II death camp in Auschwitz was indicted by Polish justice officials on Wednesday. READ »

Crime figure sues police over sex club entrapment

National: 12 Jan 10
A 48-year-old man identified as a leading figure in Stockholm's criminal underworld is suing an ex-policeman for 50 million kronor ($7 million), claiming he was set up as part of a major sex club scandal. READ »

Prison for mum who cut kids with glass and nails

National: 12 Jan 10
A 30-year-old woman from western Stockholm charged with subjecting her three children to ‘torture-like abuse’ has been sentenced to 16 months in prison. READ »

Berry pickers set to keep mystery stash of cash

Society: 12 Jan 10
A group of berry pickers who came across a sizeable sum of money last summer while working in a forest outside of Växjö in southern Sweden will most likely be allowed to hang on to the mysterious loot. READ »

Sweden arrests Bosnian war crimes suspect

National: 12 Jan 10
A 43-year-old war crimes suspect originally from Bosnia-Herzegovina was arrested on Tuesday in northern Sweden. READ »

Convicted double murderer found dead

National: 11 Jan 10
Ulf Olsson, who had been in court-ordered psychiatric care since his 2004 conviction for two murders, was found dead early on Sunday morning shortly after blogging about his desire to kill himself. READ »

Norwegian mafia tied to car trunk murder case

National: 11 Jan 10
Police in Oslo are to investigate suspicions that Norwegian drug gangs may be connected to the grisly find of two burned bodies in the boot of a car in western Sweden last week. READ »

Blast rocks Malmö nightclub

National: 11 Jan 10
A powerful explosive device detonated at the entrance of a night club in central Malmö early on Monday morning. READ »

Swedish ex-Nazi 'proud' of Auschwitz sign role

Politics: 8 Jan 10
Former neo-Nazi Anders Högström has come clean in the Swedish media about his part in the theft and subsequent recovery of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the Auschwitz death camp. READ »

Police rescue green-eyed lover caught up in tree house drama

National: 8 Jan 10
A jealous wife became stuck in her son’s tree house hideaway after running off with her husband’s mobile to secretly check his text messages. The phone came in handy when she was forced to call police to aid her escape. READ »

Air scare passenger will not face jail

National: 7 Jan 10
A Latvian passenger whose drunken mid-air antics plunged a Ryanair flight into turmoil last summer has successfully appealed against an eight month jail term as a Swedish appeal court cleared him of sabotage charges. READ »

Ex-Nazi: 'I was Auschwitz sign middleman'

National: 7 Jan 10
A Swede suspected of involvement in the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Free" sign from Auschwitz has spoken out about his role in the raid on the former Nazi death camp. READ »

Man charged for sex with door-to-door saleswomen

National: 7 Jan 10
A 36-year-old Gothenburg businessman has been charged with paying for sex after three young women knocked on his hotel room door and offered him their bodies in return for cash. READ »

Criticism soars as Sweden's wolf hunt ends

Analysis & Opinion: 7 Jan 10
Sweden's first wolf hunt in 45 years came to an end this week after hunters met their quota of 27 kills in just four days, as ecologists blasted the hunt as rushed and cruel and slammed the government's decision to allow the cull. READ »

Two bodies found in trunk of burning car

National: 7 Jan 10
Two dead bodies have been found in the trunk of a burned out car near Getinge in western Sweden, prompting police to launch a murder investigation. READ »

Three in Sweden sought for Auschwitz sign theft

National: 7 Jan 10
Prosecutors in Poland said on Wednesday they are interested in questioning three Swedish residents about the theft of the iconic "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the former Auschwitz Nazi death camp. READ »

Warning follows spate of fake police robberies

National: 6 Jan 10
Swedish police have issued a warning via their website after criminals have been caught using false police identification to lure their way into people's homes before running away with cash and valuables. READ »

Suspected murder on Finland-Sweden ferry

National: 6 Jan 10
A 39-year-old Finnish man is being held by Swedish police on suspicion of murder after a witness reports seeing him throw a fellow passenger overboard. READ »

Ex-royal bodyguard charged with rape

National: 5 Jan 10
An agent with Swedish security service Säpo who once served as a bodyguard for King Carl XVI Gustaf and Crown Princess Victoria has been charged with raping a woman near Uppsala in eastern Sweden. READ »

Rowdy prison service Christmas party prompts police response

Society: 5 Jan 10
Police were called to a Christmas party thrown by Swedish prison personnel in Härnösand in northeastern Sweden after the festivities spiraled out of control. READ »

Somali threats against Swedish illustrator

National: 4 Jan 10
Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who sparked outrage with caricatures of the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a dog, has received threats via telephone from Somalia. The threats come just days after a Danish cartoonist was attacked by a terrorist. READ »

Man sentenced for 'executing' ex-girlfriend

National: 4 Jan 10
A 37-year-old Swedish man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for murdering his ex-girlfriend with a bolt pistol normally used for anaesthetizing livestock. READ »

Conviction for Sweden's 'youngest female pimp'

National: 4 Jan 10
A 17-year-old girl from Malmö in southern Sweden has been convicted for selling the sexual services of a 14-year-old mentally disabled girl. The 20-year-old man suspected of masterminding the pimping operation was acquitted. READ »

Two teens held in probe of 18-year-old's killing

National: 4 Jan 10
Two 16-year-old boys have been detained in connection with last week’s murder of an 18-year-old woman in the Hjällbo district of Gothenburg after police traced the woman’s missing mobile phone. READ »

Swedish police give gang of left shoe thieves the boot

National: 3 Jan 10
Police in Skåne in southern Sweden have busted an international ring of left shoe robbers. Two men have been arrested for stealing seven single shoes. READ »

Missing Malmö girl alive and well in Iraq: police

National: 3 Jan 10
Four-year-old Maryam Ali Abdulhadi, who disappeared on New Year's Eve in Malmö in southern Sweden, is with all likelihood alive and well in Iraq, the Skåne police said in a statement. READ »

Search continues for 4-year-old Maryam

National: 2 Jan 10
Despite a massive search, a four-year-old girl who disappeared on New Year's Eve in Malmö in southern Sweden is still missing. Her mother claims she was kidnapped by two men and was being taken to her father, who lives abroad. READ »

No suspects in attack against Malmö mosque

National: 2 Jan 10
As of New Year's Eve evening, police had no suspects for an attack against a mosque in Malmö earlier in the day when shots had been fired through the window. READ »

Four-year-old girl missing in Malmö

Society: 1 Jan 10
A four-year-old girl disappeared just after midnight from a New Year’s Eve party in Gustav Adolf Square in central Malmö. A wide-scale police search for the girl was ongoing today. READ »

School destroyed in suspected case of arson

National: 1 Jan 10
A fire that police have classified as arson has destroyed the the Culture School in Stenkullen, near Gothenburg, overnight. Efforts to extinguish the blaze were ongoing on New Year’s morning. READ »

Sweden starts 2010 in typically messy fashion

National: 1 Jan 10
The early hours of 2010 were marked by fights, drunkenness, and fires in many parts of Sweden, as a well as traffic accidents and stray rockets. READ »

Sweden's help sought in Auschwitz theft probe

National: 30 Dec 09
Polish authorities investigating possible Swedish ties to the theft of the Auschwitz “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign planned to formally ask for help from the Swedish justice ministry, the Polish justice ministry said on Wednesday. READ »