Criticized police posts stopped - Gothenburg Post

“Send away the rabble,” is one of several posts about the riots in Husby in a Facebook group for thousands of police.

Police Union, which to some extent is behind the group, react strongly. Until further suppressed posts.

– It’s horrible inlays and completely unacceptable, especially when it concerns the work. There has been discussion about doing this kind of frustration and stress. But that does not excuse these posts, says Lena Nitz, president of the Police Association.

early on Thursday published Expressen post where police critics derided. Now it turns out that the police also writes about specific interventions. “You can be tired for less. Headline in the papers should be: idiot ignored that the bridge was open,” on the fatal accident at Hjulsta Bridge. “Oh how I wish that I and my friends Sigge was there,” the riots in Husby in May. “Sigge” refers to the service weapon, a Sig Sauer.

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Facebook group was started by a job in Police Union on how members would be made to get involved. Nitz feels a responsibility. She does not hesitate when asked about the attention harms police.

– Yes, it is crystal clear. Every single police officer who says anything negative get the rest of the police stand for.

National Police Commissioner Bengt Svenson has said, if the male against police critics, that the comments are “highly inappropriate”. But he wanted to on Friday did not specifically say anything about such Husby-posts.

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Police Union has now asked the administrators – some are employees at the union’s office – to delete some posts.

During a phone conference on Friday afternoon position reported to administrators Lena Nitz and 2nd Vice Chairman Erling Staxäng. Another meeting is scheduled for next Friday.

– Currently Posts halted until we know more, says the union’s press contact Ulrika Nordström.

individual officers writing this type of post is not good, although it hardly reflects the union’s opinions, according to Rolf Granér, police scientist at Linnaeus University in Växjö.

– But it is good that someone reacts to the misery. Unless we hear things that otherwise might just arrive in staff rooms and patrol cars, he says.