In recent years, the police's opportunities to use secret coercive measures have increased.
Both the government and the bourgeois opposition have advocated even more far-reaching surveillance.
The government has appointed an inquiry into the legislation in this area.
The moderates have proposed that the police should be allowed to intercept gang criminals even when there is no concrete criminal suspicion, something that was also requested by the National Police Chief Anders Thornberg.
"Very violating privacy"
The Bar Association has consistently opposed changes in that direction.
Secretary-General Mia Edwall Insulander sees several problems with the latest proposal.
Among other things, she emphasizes the integrity aspect for the supervised person.
- It infringes on human rights and freedoms, such as the right to privacy and the right to family life.
For the person who is exposed, it is very violating privacy, says Mia Edwall Insulander in Agenda.
She also believes that an increasingly comprehensive monitoring of citizens can have negative consequences at the societal level.
- If we have a society where many are monitored in different ways, there is a risk that citizens do not dare to exercise their democratic rights.
No definition of gang criminals
Another question is how that proposal to intercept gang criminals could be applied in practice.
Even there, Mia Edwall Insulander sees several problems.
- There is no definition in the law of what a gang criminal is.
So who hits this?
Does it hit those we really know are criminals or does it also hit very many others, who are innocent?
And if so, how does it affect those people and our democratic society, she says.