Swedish Police Service
The police of Sweden (Swedish polisen ) has a centralized structure and reporting to the Swedish Ministry of Justice.
The police in Sweden consists of two organizational areas with a total of 18,000 officers and 8,000 civilian employees. The Rikspolisstyrelsen (RPS ) is the central administrative and supervisory authority of the police headquarters in Stockholm. The actual police is the Polismyndighet (police authorities ), which is regionally divided among the 21 provinces.
Around 25 percent of the police officers in Sweden are women. Overall, Sweden has over 300 police stations.
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Rikspolisstyrelsen (RPS )
The Rikspolisstyrelsen (RPS ) or short Rikspolisen ( National Police ) is the central administrative and supervisory authority of the Swedish police. It can be equated approximately with the German Federal Criminal Police Office. The Authority is based in Stockholm was founded in 1964 and is headed by a Commissioner of Police ( Rikspolischef ), which is named directly by the government.
The RPS is also published under the Police College ( Polishögskolan ) in Solna near Stockholm, and the other two training centers at the universities of Umeå and Växjö. The basic training consists of four semesters of training at the university level and a subsequent six -month internship phase.
The Police Museum ( Polismuseet ) is also subject to the RPS.
Säkerhetspolis
The Säkerhetspolis Säpo ( security police ), the domestic intelligence agency of Sweden and reports directly to the Rikspolisstyrelse. Main tasks are counter-espionage, the constitutional protection, the fight against terrorism and the protection of persons (for example, the royal family and politicians ).
The headquarters is located in Stockholm. The five regional offices are located in Gothenburg, Lulea, Malmo, Uppsala and Örebro. At headquarters the Säpo is divided into eleven operating units.
Statens kriminaltekniska laboratory ( SKL )
Statens kriminaltekniska laboratory ( SKL ). The State Forensic Laboratory is based in Linköping since 1975 and is responsible with about 285 employees for forensic investigations.
The Institute works at the crime scene and the analysis of material from criminal cases. SKL has experts and scientists from different disciplines ( chemists, biologists, technicians ) to evaluate traces at crime scenes and objects and to assign.
The SKL consists of a management body with Admistration and currently four departments:
In addition to the forensic analysis, the Institute also works in the research and training of forensic science.
Nation Ella Insatsstyrkan
Nation Ella Insatsstyrkan (German National Domestic armed forces) are the operating nationwide special forces of the Swedish police. The 1990 furnished unit consists of 60 men and a staff of experienced police officers in the background. In the jurisdiction of the NI fall especially anti - terrorist operations and the fight against organized crime, and hostage rescues. The forces are also used for intervention against armed persons at heightened robberies, education in inaccessible terrain, in preparing for state visits, crisis negotiations with hostage-taking and personal security. Nation Ella Insatsstyrkan cooperate in training and tactics with the Swedish military and Swedish special riot police ( Seks in different parts of Sweden ).
Polismyndighet
The Polismyndighet (police authorities ), the actual police is divided into 21 provinces. Each province corresponds to a police district. This is headed by a Länspolismästare. The largest police department can be found in Stockholm County with 6,700 employees, 5,000 of them police officers. The smallest is the authority of the Gotland County with 140 employees, of which 99 policemen.
In the course of rationalization measures and individual police districts will be merged.
Piketen
The Piketen are the regional working mobile Einsatzkommandos the Swedish police. The teams came out fast teams of riot police have a long tradition. In 1887 in Stockholm, the first unit of the fast rescue police was established. The Piketen already had 1939 on a " Packard ", a vehicle that was already equipped with a radio. Through its technical equipment at the time it was the most modern police car in Europe.