The municipalities will have increased responsibility for crime prevention efforts.

The agreement means, among other things, that the police together with the county administrative board will provide support to the municipalities to work more crime prevention.

Visiting municipalities

The regional crime prevention coordinator at the county administrative board must, together with the police, visit each municipality in the county to get an insight into what the crime prevention work looks like.

- The most important thing in the long term is to ensure that children and young people who live in environments where they can be exposed to recruitment get sensible employment and see that there are other role models in life than serious criminals, says Ask.

"Slightly higher"

Why has this not been introduced before?

- It is a good question, but we have worked with these issues before but we want to take it a little higher now, she says.