This is where the police of the future are trained: "The more serious violence has increased"

Outside the police station is a bouquet of flowers.

The fatal shooting several miles away in Biskopsgården has affected the entire country's police force.

Borås Police Training's Academy Director Lotta Dalheim Englund and teacher Fredrik Strömkvist are working to prepare the students who hope to one day become police officers:

- They want to defend our democracy and they want to work with people, says Lotta Dalheim Englund who on Friday decided that they would offer talks with the students who felt a need to talk:

- They express a type of concern that is completely natural.

We have decided that we will continue to be heard once a week this summer.

"The more serious violence has increased"

Many of them will one day enter a professional life where the violence has become more severe and the climate harsher.

Where one must learn to deal with the mental strain of being in an environment where the individual or a colleague is exposed to risk:

- The only way to avoid a situation like the one in Biskopsgården is that no one takes a weapon out on the town, points at someone and presses.

This is where the responsibility lies and nowhere else.

The more serious violence, what is made visible, has increased, says Fredrik Strömkvist.

- I do not think you can fully prepare a person to be prepared to lose their life.

What we do, however, is that we prepare students for risky situations and how to handle them, says Lotta Dalheim Englund.

Applications increased after Drottninggatan

Fredrik Strömkvist holds the part of the education required to be able to work in situations where conflicts and violence can arise.

Students will be trained to deal with the "worst case scenario":

- It can be anything from a colleague being injured to extreme situations with ongoing lethal violence in public environments.

A police officer who has graduated must be able to work anywhere in the country.

We cannot start classifying areas where you must have worked a certain number of years to be there.

But it is clear that there are people who are discouraged by such a terrible event, says Fredrik.

- At the same time, we can see that after an incident such as the terrorist attack on Drottninggatan, the number of applications to the university increased, says Lotta Dalheim Englund.