He is responsible for the task of attracting and retaining employees within the Police, and has recently submitted a proposal on how to update the admission.
- If it is decided, there will be adjustments, changes.
Absolutely no requirements reductions, but we will modernize the requirements profile, he says.
The current requirements profile, ie which characteristics are considered important in a police officer, is based on a ten-year-old basis.
It has now been reviewed.
Among other things, a group of researchers has been tasked with investigating what an alternative admission process could look like.
Does not lower the requirements
Exactly what the proposal contains, or what they want the new requirements profile to look like, Max Lutteman does not want to go into until a decision has been made. But he is clear that it is not relevant to lower the requirements for those who will become police officers.
A survey conducted by SVT shows that people with a foreign background have more difficulty passing the tests for police training. At the same time, the Police have a stated goal of recruiting more police officers with a foreign background, and according to Max Lutteman, it has been involved in the work on the new proposal.
- The issue of diversity and the issue of gender equality is an important part, so it has been part of the work, he says.