The forum has been on the Public Prosecutor's Office's intranet "The Robbery", and has contained everything from legal discussions to Christmas greetings.

Now it has been closed, and replaced by the new communication channel "Ask the management".

There is no immediate publication of the posts, but they are handled by the management who can choose to publish the comments or take the questions further in another way.

The change is justified by the fact that some comments on the open forum have been so harsh that they have been perceived as both derogatory and offensive.

- It was a rather harsh tone in some posts which meant that other employees took it badly, even so badly that on some occasions we had to bring in professional conversational support, explains the authority's communications director Karin Rosander.

RAW: "Can not be passive"

According to SVT's sources, the change has aroused sharp internal criticism, where, among other things, there was talk of censorship, gagging and low ceilings.

But Karin Rosander denies that there would be any ambition to silence the internal debate.

Hear Karin Rosander explain the reasoning in the clip below:

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The Public Prosecutor's Office's communications director denies that the purpose was to silence criticism.

The public prosecutor Petra Lundh has also defended the change in a post on Rånet that SVT has read.

"I neither want nor can be passive when employees take badly what is written on a platform provided by the authority," she writes.

She defends the new communication route "Ask the management" and emphasizes that in the feedback there will not be mentioned who came up with a question or a point of view.

"We believe that this makes more people feel comfortable contacting us."

Lundh emphasizes that the changes have been prepared for a long time, but also writes that "it would have been good if we had previously communicated the change work that the communication department has conducted since the turn of the year".