Internal documents: The government's demands on the national police chief

After the tangle surrounding the police leadership in December, Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) made a decision that the government and the police would have meetings every week.

Since then, the shootings and explosions have followed each other - and the tone against the police leadership has sharpened.

"The government expects powerful measures from the Police Authority", it says in the memorial notes from a meeting on January 5, which SVT has seen.

- With more resources and more tools, expectations for better results and higher efficiency also grow, says Gunnar Strömmer.

Long queue times on 114 14

The meetings are attended by the Minister of Justice or the State Secretary and the police leadership.

For some time, there have also been daily reconciliations at official level due to the spiral of violence in Stockholm.

A number of points are discussed at the meetings.

This applies both to pure crime fighting but also to the recruitment of new police officers and the availability of the telephone number 114 14, where waiting times have increased during the year.

The police management's explanation for the increased waiting times is that people had to be moved to passport processing as a result of last year's major passport chaos.

Another topic that has been up for discussion is the police's ability to recruit - where the authority's own figures show that the number of former police officers that they manage to attract back is falling.

"Had gone bankrupt"

Member of Parliament Fredrik Kärrholm (M) himself has a background as a police officer.

He points out that there have been no results in several areas despite the authority receiving large increases in resources.

- If a private company had been managed like the police authority, then that company would have gone bankrupt a long time ago, says Kärrholm, who also describes the police management as "ass-like".

In social media, police officers have said that the government's new requirements have made local managers focus on numbers and crimes that quickly improve the statistics, what is usually called "stick hunting".

- We have been careful not to go back to a stick hunt.

A traffic offense should not be worth as much as an appeal court verdict in a murder, says Gunnar Strömmer.

SVT has applied for national police chief Anders Thornberg.