Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has announced that Sweden has joined forces with Poland, Italy and Spain to work for Europe to assume its global security responsibility and to strengthen the EU's voice for peace.
Sweden was in talks with Saudi Arabia about providing a state of the art public security system, according to information in a secret letter sent from the Swedish minister for trade and revealed by daily Expressen.
Sweden's Security Service has confirmed that it is investigating a threat made against Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and the leader of the Social Democrats Håkan Juholt.
A Stockholm hotel has launched a new pilot security system enabling guests to open their rooms, and even check in and out, with the help of their mobile phones, the participating companies said Tuesday.
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), a European security body, has named Sweden's Knut Dreyer as the new head of its police unit (SPMU), the organisation announced on Friday.
Some 2,000 police officers are set to patrol the streets of Stockholm in the coming days, with around 15 heads of state attending the marriage of Crown Princess Victoria and commoner Daniel Westling.
The heads of Sweden's nuclear power plants have called for the installation of armed rapid reaction forces to be put in place in order to increase security.
A Swedish pilot who has flown members of the royal family, ministers and high ranking military officers has been suspended for neglecting a series of obligatory medical check ups.
Swedish security service Säpo wants to make it easier for foreign nationals to fill sensitive positions within the Swedish state as part of a “necessary modernization”.
The Swedish and US agencies of homeland security are meeting in Stockholm on Thursday to discuss "preparedness and resiliency against a broad spectrum of threats."
The municipal council Örebro in central Sweden has announced that new routines will allow private e-mails to written to council staff can be read by anyone at the office. The new routines - in force from September 1st - are intended to improve efficiency.
Police are warning Stockholm-area motorists to leave their cars at home on Friday as student celebrations and departing VIPs are expected to clog the city’s streets.
A large-scale attack on Sweden's computer infrastructure could paralyse the country within hours, experts have warned. The government needs to act now to ensure the security of Sweden's vital services and functions, they say.
Last year the Swedish Security Service (Säkerhetspolisen - SÄPO) recommended that 65 people be prevented from either entering Sweden or remaining in the country on the grounds that they posed a security risk.
Swedish pop star Dilbahar "Dilba" Demirbag has been turned away from a US Airways flight to Philadelphia after joking that she planned to "bomb some planes".
Sweden's top legal official recently announced plans to launch an investigation into allegations of collusion between Swedish police and bouncers. Believing himself to be the victim of just such an arrangement, Russell Cutress, a Stockholm-based Englishman, spoke to The Local about the events that led to him spending a night in a Stockholm cell and which left him with serious bruising.
For the next two weeks anybody travelling from Sweden to Germany must be prepared to show a passport or Swedish national ID card when crossing into German territory.
A Swedish woman on a flight from Paris to Stockholm went into allergic shock and lost consciousness for almost thirty minutes after her medicine was taken away at the security check.
The leader of the Centre Party, Maud Olofsson, has said that she will block the new law on bugging if it is not changed before it is presented to parliament.
