An intelligence report from the Gothenburg police has revealed deep concern over growing violence between ethnic gangs in the city as they battle over the city’s illegal drug trade. The report claims gangs of Syrian migrants along with Afghani and
The new Swedish 2021 budget has been revealed, with the government looking to spend more on foreign aid than on the country’s police force despite violent gang crime remaining a problem.
Swedish police and civilian workers at a police station in the no-go Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby will receive police escorts to and from work to maintain their safety.
Swedish police say the number of incidents of adults paying for sex with minors has increased, with ‘sugar dating’ websites driving growth.
Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters in the multicultural Swedish city of Malmö reportedly handed out flyers calling for the abolition of police.
While some crime has gone down significantly since the start of the coronavirus outbreak in Sweden, gang shootings have actually increased since last year.
Swedish populist politician Jimmie Åkesson has been reported to the police for inciting hate after handing out “Sweden is full” flyers in Turkey this week.
Several members of the youth movement of the Swedish Left Party have accused police of facilitating racism by cracking down on gang crime in no-go areas in the city of Malmö.
Sweden saw just seven convictions for bombings in 2019, despite there being over 250 known cases of explosions in the same year.
The Swedish government has said it wants to greatly expand the number of police across the country but a recent report has suggested hundreds of recruitment places remain unfilled.
Authorities in Sweden have been accused of mislabelling explosions and bombings and classifying incidents as “damage” in order to distort the true extent of explosions across the country.
A Swedish court dropped public endangerment charges against a teen who was caught with a large bomb in his backpack which he claimed he had thought were drugs at the time.
Police in the Swedish multicultural city of Malmö have announced a new operation which will see drones equipped with cameras that can surveil areas around the clock to watch for crime.
Two people were fatally shot outside a nightclub in Norrköping, Sweden, as gang violence continues to plague the country.
A poll has shown that only eight per cent of Swedes think the ruling Social Democrats can solve the rising problem of gang violence in the next six months.
The Swedish Security Service (Säpo) has found that taxpayer money is being funnelled into Islamic extremist group’s pockets through government grants.
A police station in the Swedish city of Staffanstorp was targetted by an explosive device, with witnesses describing the blast as loud and powerful. The explosion occurred in the early hours of Monday morning and caused damage to the main door
The number of Swedes reporting to have been victims of sexual crimes has tripled between 2014 and 2018, according to a report by the Swedish Crime Prevention Council Brå.
Police working in the notorious no-go Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby have decried the situation in the area, claiming criminals laugh at Swedish laws.
A former United States police chief brought in to help Sweden tackle gun crime has expressed shock at the level of violence in the country.
One of two suspects arrested in Gothenburg for possessing explosives has been revealed to have convictions for rioting at a political event.
Swedish criminologist Manne Gerell claims that changing norms and standards within the criminal milieu have led to the rise in violence currently rocking the country.
Due to a lack of police officers, several no-go “vulnerable areas” in Sweden have been forced to hire security guards in an effort to combat crime and violence.
Swedish police have called on the government to remove their full names and social security numbers from official identification, fearing the information could be used by criminals.
Swedish police in the city of Uppsala have warned women walking alone at night to avoid certain areas entirely after the city saw four sex attacks in as many days.
A 34-year-old man in Sweden has been convicted of uttering threats after telling two female police officers to submit to Islamic State or face being raped.
Södertälje is the latest city in Sweden to see yet another explosion, with police describing the blast as being strong enough to be heard 100 yards away.
Sweden will employ hundreds of new police officers in an effort to tackle a growing trend of sexual offences against vulnerable people and children.
Swedish police have walked back on comments made about the prevalence of religious extremism in “vulnerable areas” across the country, suggesting that there may have been a problem with radical Christian extremism.
Swedish police released an updated list of so-called “vulnerable areas” across the country despite protests from certain municipalities who protested and wanted the list to be kept secret. Swedish police produced the updated list of vulnerable areas, in which some
A list from the Centre for Violent Extremism (CVE) has revealed that 41 out of 290 Swedish municipalities are expected to be forced to accommodate returning Islamic State members.
Swedish police are considering making the newest update to their country’s list of “vulnerable areas” hidden from the public after complaints by local politicians.
Swedish police have discovered one of the largest caches of weapons in recent years following a raid on a number of homes in a borough of the city of Gothenburg linked to gang crime.
Forty per cent of residents in Sweden’s now 61 no-go “troubled areas” fear for their safety when walking outside after dark.
Police in the Swedish migrant-majority town of Södertälje discovered ten bullet holes in the local police station thought to have been attacked by an unknown assailant on early Monday morning.
Swedish police officer Peter Springare has been reported to police and will likely be investigated after he said the country’s gang rape problem is linked to migration and was a “cultural phenomenon”.
Swedish criminology professor Jerzy Sarnecki claims that Sweden has seen a “sharp increase” in violent crime in recent years and the lack of resources for police could exasperate the problem.
After a significant rise in the number of hand grenade attacks, Swedish authorities are proposing a bill of amnesty for those willing to turn in their weapons.
A 20-year-old man in Sweden has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after throwing a suspected hand grenade at police vehicles.
Firemen in the heavily-migrant populated Uppsala suburb of Gottsunda were forced to let fires rages for hours while they waited for police back up due to the danger of being attacked by local residents. Emergency services were first alerted to the