The law on the care of intoxicated persons, LOB, was introduced in the 1970s when the ban on public intoxication was lifted.
It is briefly described as follows according to the Public Prosecutor's Office.
"A person who is so affected that he or she cannot take care of himself or herself, or poses a danger to himself or herself or others, can be taken into custody by the police."
The police ignored medical assessments
The guard school in Boden believes that the police misinterpret the law, and after several incidents, the school reported the police to the Chancellor of Justice.
Partly because the police refused to send a patrol to the place where security guards took intoxicated persons - and partly because they refused to take intoxicated persons to the police detention center despite medical assessments by doctors.
"To, in direct conflict with the doctor's assessment, leave the caregiver in the emergency department who has assessed the person's health status as not in need of emergency care, but nevertheless so drunk that he cannot take care of himself," it says in the JK report.
"The police have acted like this for a long time"
In his decision, the Chancellor of Justice directs criticism at the police in Region North and Nicklasson thinks it is high time.
- The police have acted like this for a long time, but in recent years I feel that it has gotten worse, he says.
But why has no one reported this before then?
- Many security companies are dependent on good cooperation with the police.
And that is why they are afraid of retaliation if you go out with this type of criticism, he says and explains why he does it himself now:
- I'm so old now that I do not care, says Patrik Nicklasson.
In the video, the security guard shows how a man was beaten out on one of Luleå's busiest streets - pissed off and with a white froth around his mouth - and which the police refused to take into custody according to LOB
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