Recently, the issue of covert eavesdropping has come to the fore, as a large number of gang criminals have been able to be prosecuted with the help of encrypted chats from the Encrochat service.
The evidence comes from French police, who hacked the service and thereby came across extensive material.
In Sunday's Agenda, Minister of the Interior Mikael Damberg (S) and Johan Forssell, the Moderates' legal policy spokesperson, debated the issue of secret coercive measures.
The moderates have proposed that the police should be allowed to use secret interception of gang criminals for preventive purposes - ie even when there is no criminal suspicion.
- In the French environment, all information has been taken, we want to be able to intercept those who are gang criminals, said Johan Forssell and continues:
- Is it the case that you belong to a criminal gang, you actually have to accept it.
"Are there legal security issues"
Mikael Damberg does not rule out that one may support such a proposal.
- The advantages are that you give the police another tool with broader powers.
On the other hand, there is a legal security problem with it.
Then you must first look at how things have been done in other countries.
The government has recently appointed an inquiry into the question of covert interception and whether it can be used in more cases than today.
But the issue of wiretapping without criminal suspicion was not included in the investigation directives, Johan Forssell pointed out.
- It illustrates the hypocrisy in the government's legal policy.
The government talks very tough about gang crime, in reality you are weak, he said.
- There is no government that has given the police as many opportunities to work with technical retrieval as this one, countered Mikael Damberg.
See the full debate in Sunday's Agenda.