The 17-year-old is charged with seven robberies but also grievous beatings. Two robberies were carried out in March this year. Then he was arrested and admitted. He was released from detention and placed under the Act on the Care of Young Persons (LVU) at a family home in Western Sweden, pending trial.

Already during the midsummer weekend he departed. The manager phoned the social services team in Gothenburg and announced this. But nothing happened. The 17-year-old continues to commit new crimes and in August he is arrested for a total of five robberies carried out during a two-week period.

"Remarkable that the social service does not call"

According to prosecutor Linda Wiking, the social service never informed the Gothenburg police that the 17-year-old had escaped from his residence.

- If we had known this, the police had searched for him and arrested him. Now he was driving the wind in Gothenburg all summer and could commit crimes, says prosecutor Linda Wiking, who is critical of how social services have acted.

- If a juvenile delinquent does not sleep throughout the summer at the home he is assigned, you may think that the least thing you can do is react.

Does that mean that the robbery in August could have been avoided if he had been arrested immediately he had escaped?

- I don't want to speculate on that. I think it is remarkable that the social service does not ring when he deviates. They talk about tougher sentences and penalties, but the basis is that police and social services can work together, says Linda Wiking.

Do not want to comment on the individual case

When Opinion Live contacts the resident in Western Sweden where the 17-year-old was placed, the director says that he has notified the social services team in Gothenburg every time the 17-year-old departed.

Sector manager at the social services Ing-Marie Larsson does not want to comment on the individual case, but believes that the activities with youth placements work well.

- There are certainly things that can be done better. Generally, when someone is LVU: ad and forcibly treated and nonconforming, we usually ask for handcuffing by the police, she says.

Why it didn't happen this time, she can't comment.

- I can't talk about individual cases. But there is always an assessment in these cases.

Have you done wrong?

- I don't want to say that. It's always about assessments.

How do you think the communication between you and the police works, because it seems to have broken?

- I think our cooperation is good. Then we make different assessments, the police make their assessment and we do ours. And they may not always match.