Several municipalities in electricity area 4, in southern Sweden, are now changing their street lighting in various ways to save on energy and electricity costs, SVT's circular shows.
In Laholm in Halland, the municipality turns off two-thirds of the street lighting.
It is about 5,000 lights that are now switched off, including in residential areas.
In Höganäs, a third of the street lighting is to be turned off, and in Halmstad and Helsingborg, the time that the lighting is on is shortened, by up to one hour per day.
"Danger to life and health"
In the municipality of Laholm, the extinguishment arouses strong reactions, including from the municipal police Kristian Nilsson, who believes that this can affect both traffic safety and crime and insecurity in the municipality.
- In the years that I have worked with security and crime prevention work, lighting has been a very central part - and here they choose to ignore it.
The biggest risk is danger to life and health, says Kristian Nilsson, municipal police, who would like to see a consensus between the municipalities in the area.
Want it lit
Elsa Nilsson, 12, her sister and their friends would prefer that the municipality turn the lights back on.
- It feels like society is dead and that no one wants to be out because it is so dark, and it becomes unsafe, says Elsa Nilsson.
Join the police and the village team on a security walk in Våxtorp in the clip, where two out of three streetlights have now been turned off, and hear the reactions to the darkness.
Here, Knut Slettengren (M), chairman of the community planning committee, responds to the criticism and to why Laholm's municipality has chosen to turn off two-thirds of the street lighting.