In mid-April this year, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in a case concerning extremely serious weapons offences in Södertälje. The acquittal has major consequences for the police. When the police now find narcotics, they are forced to leave them at the scene, otherwise the suspects go free.

Already now, the police in Umeå have been forced to leave real drugs at a crime scene, instead of exchanging it for a substitute.

"This is a serious narcotics offence at a workplace in Västerslätt in Umeå. There were a lot of tablets and hashish. Three people are now in custody there, Palmgren says.

"Must be twice as many police"

Supplying real drugs requires significantly more resources from the police.

"It immediately takes more people and more planning of the arrangement. In general, it can be said that we must be twice as many people monitoring drugs than before. It depends a bit on where the drugs are also located, is it out in the woods where you can disappear in all directions, or in a small basement with an exit.

What are the consequences?

"More resources are needed to look at drugs, then we don't have time for everything else that also needs to be done.

"The risk of leaving the drugs is partly that they end up on the street and partly that the suspects have time to flush it down and destroy the evidence.

Palmgren: "Nightmare to have to leave weapons"

The Umeå police have not yet found weapons that they needed to leave behind.

"There is a huge difference when it comes to weapons, it is a completely different danger to intervene as a police officer. It is a huge difference to go in and arrest people who are standing with loaded weapons compared to when we know that it is about replicas. It's the nightmare that it's going to happen," says the head of the reconnaissance.

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This weapon was confiscated by the police in a basement storage room in Södertälje and left one behind a replica. In the video, SVT goes through the consequences of that. Photo: Police/montage