Watch the video above when the police raided one of the city's larger, central gyms.



Uniformed police officers are an unusual sight at the gym in Gothenburg, and the atmosphere among the exercisers became somewhat confused when the police positioned themselves among the exercise machines.

The aim of the effort was to find people who could use doping substances for their own use.

During two weekday evenings, about 15 police officers visited ten different gyms in central Gothenburg.

Both smaller basement gym and larger gym chains.

After conversations, 10 people were taken to the police station for sampling.

They are now suspected of doping offenses for their own use, three of them also had steroids in their homes.

In addition to doping offenses, seven out of ten are also suspected of drug offenses.

One person also carried a knife in the gym.

"Very successful"

Johan Ekström is a police inspector and has been involved in planning the operation, which he describes as successful.

- There were very many smaller people out on day two, probably because films of our attacks had circulated on social media.

This is good, because it creates anxiety in the joint.

They feel that they are not safe, says Johan Ekström.

The drugs found are mainly cannabis, but tablets of various kinds have also been found that have not yet been identified.

Collaboration with gym

As a rule, gym owners are not informed before the police strike, but that does not mean that the co-operation is bad.

- In general, we have a good collaboration with all the gyms we were in.

They get in touch if they suspect that there are people there who use steroids.

Throttles income for organized crime

According to the police, the strikes are made for preventive purposes.

- By getting people to stop using steroids, we get rid of income for organized crime.

We also prevent crime in public environments and close relationships, says Johan Ekström.

Nevertheless, doping attacks of this size are unusual.

- It has to do with resources.

But I do not really have a good answer as to why we do not do it more often.