On Saturday, Mats Löfving, Deputy National Police Chief, visited Ekot's Saturday interview and told that there are about 40 criminal networks of relatives who have established themselves in Sweden with the aim of building up organized crime.

A source within the police intelligence service tells SVT Nyheter Väst that there are currently 12 family-based criminal networks in Västra Götaland and Halland.

They are active in the following cities: Uddevalla, Trollhättan, Vänersborg, Gothenburg, Kungälv, Halmstad, Borås, Falkenberg, Tranemo / Limmared and Laholm.

In Gothenburg, there are seven of these family-based networks.

Police: "Have known about this for a long time"

For Erik Nord, head of the Greater Gothenburg police area, the figures are nothing new:

- We have seen how these networks have grown stronger over the last ten years, but it is only now that this has become increasingly relevant and urgent.

But we in the police have known this for a long time.

So you have known about this for a long time, but what do you do?

- We will have to live with this for quite a few years.

It is a work in progress and I can not tell in detail how we work towards these networks, but we have learned a lot in the last ten years, so much I can say.

Not whole families are criminals

When asked if he, just like Deputy National Police Chief Mats Löfving, thinks that these groups have come to Sweden for the purpose of building up organized crime, Erik Nord answers that he rather thinks that this will come in the second situation.

- My picture is that these networks have a very strong culture and a tangible impact, with the risk of mutating into organized crime when facing Western democracies and welfare systems.

But, and this is very important, it certainly does not mean that entire families are criminals, says police chief Erik Nord.

In the clip below, you see the journalist Johanna Bäckström Lerneby tell about a family network that she believes is involved in the ongoing gang conflict in Gothenburg.

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SVT journalist Johanna Bäckström Lerneby tells about the family network which she believes is a party to the ongoing conflict.

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