The criteria for defectors to get help today is that you must have a clear threat picture, evidence that you are active in an established gang and be known to the police since before.

Andreas Wetterberg says that the help must take place earlier and is critical of the current way of working to catch defectors.

- It creates problems, it becomes very inefficient.

Now we sit and wait and it is incredibly slow.

Hear Andreas Wetterberg talk about how the social services in Gothenburg work with gang defectors in the clip above.