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Swedish sex cop caught in prostitution case

A middle-aged Stockholm policeman investigating a prostitution racket has appeared in court charged with "buying services" from the very brothel he was investigating, according to Aftonbladet on Wednesday.

Published: 13 January 2005 12:48 CET

Three men, two from Estonia, and one woman, are suspected to be behind a prostitution network involving girls from Estonia who were under 18 years of age.

“This mainly revolves around a criminal organisation in Estonia that has been branching out to Sweden looking for its clients here”, said Anna Lena Nilemar at the court.

The suspected policeman belonged to a “special force” that was supposed to investigate how the organisation had made use of the Internet to set up its business.

One of the Estonian women identified the policeman on a picture showed to her, claiming he was “like any other paying customer”, said Aftonbladet.

Under interrogation the police officer said he used the brothel’s services “out of pure curiosity”.

Sources: Aftonbladet

Calls for special police tactics to be available across Sweden

SPT, (Särskild polistaktik), is a tactic where the police work with communication rather than physical measures to reduce the risk of conflicts during events like demonstrations.

Tactics include knowledge about how social movements function and how crowds act, as well as understanding how individuals and groups act in a given situation. Police may attempt to engage in collaboration and trust building, which they are specially trained to do.

Katharina von Sydow, chairwoman of the Police Association West Region, told Swedish Radio P4 West that the concept should exist throughout the country.

“We have nothing to defend ourselves within 10 to 15 metres. We need tools to stop this type of violent riot without doing too much damage,” she said.

SPT is used in the West region, the South region and in Stockholm, which doesn’t cover all the places where the Easter weekend riots took place.

In the wake of the riots, police unions and the police’s chief safety representative had a meeting with the National Police Chief, Anders Tornberg, and demanded an evaluation of the police’s work. Katharina von Sydow now hopes that the tactics will be introduced everywhere.

“This concept must exist throughout the country”, she said.

During the Easter weekend around 200 people were involved in riots after a planned demonstration by anti-Muslim Danish politician Rasmus Paludan and his party Stram Kurs (Hard Line), that included the burning of the Muslim holy book, the Koran.

Police revealed on Friday that at least 104 officers were injured in counter-demonstrations that they say were hijacked by criminal gangs intent on targeting the police.

Forty people were arrested and police are continuing to investigate the violent riots for which they admitted they were unprepared.

Paludan’s application for another demonstration this weekend was rejected by police.

In Norway on Saturday, police used tear gas against several people during a Koran-burning demonstration after hundreds of counter-demonstrators clashed with police in the town of Sandefjord.

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