"The responsibility for the delay lies with our own authority"

Tobias Stenström says that the delays in the surveillance system in Borås are mainly about missing hardware.

- It's gadgets that are ordered. But we don't know when they're coming, he says.

These are, among other things, so-called switches - things that should have been ordered simultaneously with the cameras?

- It was probably also done, but ... We get a quote from our procurement party, and then the question is what is in stock. Actually, we would have had a different type of cameras too, but they could not be delivered then. That's why we start with the ones we got. So in the fall we will switch cameras, he reveals - but quickly adds that the change goes fast.

- We're well on our way now. It's really positive. But there is a lot of technology around this, he says.

But still: Nobody knows when the new "gadgets" will come. Can it take months?

- No I do not think so.

Tobias Stenström also downplayed the importance of the first cameras being slightly delayed.

- Most of the delay is about our own organization and IT department. We have had too little resources, and have not really managed to do so. Then a change was made. Our IT department got a new principal and they started from scratch with a new camera platform and so on. So we are well up one and a half years later, he says.

Costs can be calculated in different ways. For example, how do you measure the cost of a crime that could have been prevented if the cameras worked already last summer?

The technical part is easier to calculate. A surveillance camera costs about SEK 35,000, but each so-called camera point costs somewhere between SEK 50,000 and 100,000, depending on factors such as distance to the technology room, what work is to be done and more. In Borås there are 55 such points.

In the end, it lands on many millions.

Today it is the premiere of the new camera surveillance section where Tobias Stenström is the manager.

- We have had some childhood illnesses in the past, but we have learned a lot and now everything is getting better. And this is definitely the future. I think this section will grow well over the next few years, he says.