Between 30-60 percent of those who work in authorities and who meet people have been affected by threats, SVT's survey shows how common threats and violence against civil servants are.
The union has sounded the alarm and wants to see new laws that protect threatened employees.
Anna Nitzelius, legal policy expert at Akavia, a trade union for lawyers and economists, wants to see new secrecy provisions.
She wants government officials to more easily receive protected information about address and private circumstances.
Forsell (M) agrees
Johan Forssell, legal policy spokesman for the Moderates, agrees with Nitzelius and says that the threats have not been taken seriously enough in recent years.
- I think you can do several things, you can look at the penalties, you can also look at whether it is possible to use anonymous decision-making in the most serious cases to give them the protection they need.
"Hard to see how it would go"
But using anonymous decision-making does not see Morgan Johansson, Minister of Migration (S) as an opportunity.
- I have a hard time seeing how it would go with preserved principles of openness, and it is inscribed in the constitution, so you have to start from that anyway.
Morgan Johansson instead raises resource issues, that there are more people sharing the work and that in this way it becomes easier to handle this type of situation.
- Even if we do not see it in the statistics on the number of reports, there is a risk that if this is allowed to continue, it will also affect decision-making.
That people with these decision-making functions do not dare or hesitate to handle certain matters and then it eventually becomes a system threat.
- There is a very strong feeling that this must be put hard against the individuals who engage in this type of threat.
And that is also why criminal law must be changed.