Several police officers from Greater Gothenburg have been allowed to go and reinforce their work against the riots in Malmö and Linköping.
- I talked to someone who had just returned home from Malmö this afternoon and he was completely exhausted, we are not talking about machines, says Erik Nord, police chief in Greater Gothenburg.
He takes it as income because the police need to be more.
- As it is now, we are forced to move staff throughout the country at events like this and it is not reasonable.
The government's goal is to have 10,000 more police officers by the end of 2024. 250 of them will be located in Gothenburg - primarily as area police officers.
But Erik Nord had wanted to see more.
- Today we are 1250 police officers, and as I see it, we need to be 1500 more.
Integration police critical
But there are those who believe that the riots themselves are an understatement of the police's work.
Ulf Boström, integration police in Gothenburg and who also sits as a political savage in Gothenburg City Council and was previously active in the Democrats, is one of them:
- We have had democracy for a hundred years and in ten years we have become the country with the most gun violence in Europe, we have to ask ourselves that question then - do we do the right things from the public sector.
The police authority has a great responsibility to rectify what has gone wrong.
He believes that the previous system of neighborhood police officers who worked locally and knew the residents better had advantages.
But Erik Nord, head of the police in Greater Gothenburg, does not agree.
- Ulf and I were police officers at the same time and today's area police officers are much more efficient than the neighborhood police officers were.
They have access to information that we intercept through intelligence activities such as Encrochat and can prosecute people to a greater extent while they work to create contact.