What, then, does the police have the opportunity to act when so many people are camped for so long in a forest area?

- When someone resides on someone else's property without permission for longer than the public court allows, it can be a self-contained procedure and the police may have the opportunity to intervene and reject the people, but it is not easy when there are so many people out there in the wilderness, says Thomas Sjöholm, chief of the police's law enforcement Nord.

Difficult to associate each individual with crime

What are the difficulties?

- Every individual must be able to be associated with having committed a crime. It's not quite easy when so many people are scattered on such a large area as in Jokkmokk. We have to be able to point to every single person and say: "You have been informed that you must not be here and yet you continue to be here and therefore you commit a crime," says Thomas Sjöholm.

Would the police have acted differently if the tent camp had been opened in a more central location, for example at Ormberget in Luleå or in Lidingö in Stockholm where the population is large?

- It is clear that it is difficult when you have a population that is so far away from civilization. It is clear that it is easier for a patrol to go out to Ormberget and identify people than to go far out into the forest, says Tomas Sjöholm.