One and a half years ago, National Police Chief Anders Thornberg proposed that it should be legislated who is responsible for intoxicated persons who are taken into care according to LOB, the law on the care of intoxicated persons.

The issue has been on the agenda for several years and has received repeated attention after people in custody died in police custody.

The question is also partly about how the police's resources should be distributed.

Among police officers out in the country, there is also dissatisfaction with the current order.

- That drunk people who are not violent are usually kept with the police, I think is wrong.

LOB is a care law and it is not a one-time occurrence that someone dies after they have been with the police.

I would like to see sobriety units in the hospitals and that we regularly drove there those who are unable to take care of themselves, says police Markus Ingemarsson in the SVT documentary "Freedom is thunder", which is about 20-year-old Michelle who died of drug poisoning in the police arrest in Lund 2016.

Only 1 in 10 is taken to care

In addition to the police, several researchers and doctors have been critical of the current order and wanted to see a change.

The Ombudsman has also previously criticized the way in which intoxicated persons in police custody are handled.

And despite the fact that LOB is a care law, an overwhelming majority of those taken into custody by the police are taken into custody.

Today, only one in ten carers is taken to a sobriety unit or to health care, according to an investigation by the authority for care and nursing analysis.

A review by the newspaper Alkohol & Narkotika of 35 deaths in police custody that has taken place since 2012, also shows that most of the deaths are drug-related.

Free up police resources

SVT Nyheter has asked all parliamentary parties who should be responsible for intoxicated people who have been taken into care, and the answers point in a clear direction: more people who are taken into care according to LOB should receive care.

All parties are positive that the issue of responsibility is being investigated and no party answers that they are satisfied with the current situation.

See a selection of the parties' answers in the fact box below.