Since April, a total of seven guns and hundreds of cartridges have disappeared from an equipment room at the Government Offices.

These should be so-called extra weapons to be used at an elevated threat level and everyday they are stored in a locked cabinet, where both key and code are needed to enter. But the room is also camera-monitored, but without the surveillance being recorded, writes Today's Law on Monday.

- No one is sitting and watching the TV monitor, it is freely forward, says a source with transparency in the investigation to the news site.

Do not want to comment

The licenses on the weapons are on the security company Securitas, which has the surveillance assignment for the Government Offices.

Their press officer, Axel Andersson, does not want to answer SVT Nyheter's questions but writes in an email:

"We will not comment on any protection object in any way, as our assessment is that we cannot do so without risk of violating the privacy rules that apply to this type of object."

The police are solving puzzles

The police investigation of the thefts is led by investigator Carola Pettersson who, together with a handful of people, works full time with the case. She does not want to confirm the details of whether the surveillance camera is recording or not, but says that several surveillance films are interesting in the investigation work.

- It is clear that they are important, you can get a lot of information from them. And if you compare it with information from other investigative materials, you can put a puzzle, she explains.

"We can exclude quite a few"

The latest theft was supposed to have taken place the night between November 29 and November 30, and just under a day later, one of Securitas' security guards, a man in his 30s, was arrested. The man was released on release after a couple of days, but the suspicions of theft and serious weapons offenses remain.

Although there are currently suspicions of a security guard, the police work broadly and investigate about 70 guards.

- It's no secret that the latest theft happened so recently, where we can exclude quite a lot and then you can see that some are more interesting than others.

Do you think these thefts are related and have the same perpetrator?

- You can't know that, but even though it is very serious now, it would be even more serious if there were more independent people or companies that took weapons. From a statistical point of view, it is almost at hand that there are one or two perpetrators, she says.

SVT News has applied for the Government Offices that have not yet answered our questions.