According to a review conducted by SVT Nyheter, patients deviated from forensic psychiatry on 143 occasions last year.
Most deviated from leave and leave and in more than half of the cases the person who deviated had done so before.
The review also shows that every fourth person who disappeared was judged to be dangerous - either for himself or for others.
- It is about the public and the taxpayers 'right to avoid having violent and often dangerous people who move in society, says the Moderates' legal policy spokesman, Johan Forssell to SVT News.
- I think that no one would have accepted if these were people who were in prison for these crimes and time and time again managed to deviate.
Requires stricter safety procedures
The information has led the Moderates to demand that security routines be tightened in the forensic psychiatric wards.
- This must change, the security work must be steered so that it does not happen again, says Johan Forssell.
According to Forssell, for example, the accompaniment during leave needs to be changed so that there is a sufficient number of people who can intervene if a patient chooses to deviate.
- You should also not grant leave in the same way as you do today, perhaps make other risk assessments, he continues.
Secret telephone tapping
Johan Forssell further states that police and prosecutors should be given better opportunities to use secret telephone tapping to more easily get hold of people who have deviated and return them to their clinics.
- These are people who are dangerous, they have a court decision that they should be detained.
SVT Nyheter has sought the responsible minister, Minister of Social Affairs Lena Hallengren (S), for a comment but without success.