Region Stockholm has dealt with a large number of shootings and bombings recently. Johan Olsson, head of the police’s national operational department (Noa), has therefore decided on reinforcements.
– With the recent development of shootings and explosions, we see a need to send additional reinforcements to Stockholm to prevent more murders from occurring in the ongoing conflicts and to increase surveillance in several locations, he says in a press release.
Police officers from all regions
He further says that the police will be there “within the next few days”. The decision applies for the next two weeks and the police come from all police regions in Sweden.
– It is a very welcome addition. We are doing everything we can to break the serious spiral of violence that the region is in now and need additional resources, says Mattias Andersson, acting regional police chief in Stockholm.