In the Bergslagen police region, the police are working to get the camera surveillance center up and running in the region.
Unlike the camera surveillance center in the Stockholm police region, the one in Bergslagen, which includes Örebro län, Värmland and Dalarna, will not be manned around the clock.
- In the first instance, we will try to deal with major events and help the regional command center in the operational work on 112 calls, says Pär Nylén.
According to Pär Nylén, the other smaller police regions are in roughly the same situation. The difference to the metropolitan regions can mainly be explained by the rate at which the cameras have been set up in the country.
- We are still in phase with the road map we made a few years ago, he says.
Twice as many cameras in two years
Between 2021 and 2023, the police's fixed camera surveillance points have increased from 420 to 859 in the country, according to the police's national media center.
There are so many fixed camera surveillance points in the country. Photo: SVT Graphics
In addition to the fixed cameras, there were also 880 mobile/temporary cameras in the country at the turn of the year - which means that a total of 1,739 cameras are in operation.
Mobile solutions to achieve the government's goals
In October last year, Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) announced that the government and the Sweden Democrats want to see an increase to 2,500 cameras this year. To solve this, the police will primarily use mobile surveillance cameras that take less time to deploy.
"In order to reach the set goals, the Police Agency plans to convert 600 of the planned fixed camera points into mobile surveillance cameras and at the same time continue the establishment of fixed camera surveillance," writes Buster Mirow Emitslöf, press secretary at the police's national media center in an email to SVT.