In an episode, which has now been removed, a man is arrested in an apartment, suspected of having driven a car after an armed robbery.
The face is blurred and the voice distorted, but the outdoor environment and the inside of the home can be seen in the clip.
Children are heard talking in the background, without a distorted voice.
- We learn the hard way that journalistic activity is not for amateurs.
This is basically a good investment, I think.
It reaches young people in new channels, more police are needed.
But we have a tone hit in this section that is deplorable, says Oisín Cantwell, lead writer at Aftonbladet.
"An unjustifiable violation"
Journalist Nils Funcke, who is an expert on publicity and secrecy, thinks that there is a press ethics problem in the series when the police film real people and use it for publicity purposes.
- It is reprehensible to use film recordings from real police interventions for PR purposes.
Even if you anonymize and delete sensitive information, it exposes victims, witnesses and even criminals to an unjustifiable violation when they get to see themselves in a PR film.
It also does not, in my opinion, matter that you use your advantage and persuade individuals that film sequences should be used.
- Should the police or another authority make, for example, a recruitment film, they can of course use real events, but then with extras.
It is not uncommon to do reconstructions.
But even then, one must be careful not to provide such detailed information that individuals can be identified, says Nils Funcke.
Hear the police respond to the criticism in the clip above.