"The investigation methods violate the constitutional protection of personal integrity and the right to privacy. It is very remarkable that no real consideration was given to the legal conditions before the methods were used, says JO Per Lennerbrant in a press release on Wednesday.

It was in the spring of 2020 that the municipal executive board in Norrköping decided to intensify the work against cheating and fraud in the municipal welfare system – then a security investigator was recruited, among other things.

Taken place in secret

In the review, the Ombudsman has found that the living patterns of the observed persons have been documented in detail. The observations have also been going on for a long time and have taken place in secret.

This is what the politicians said about the search in May last year:

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Are the methods of the municipality even legal? This is what politicians Olle Vikmång (S) and Sophia Jarl (M) in Norrköping have to say. Photo: Lena Liljeborg/SVT