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A man was detained for two days before someone realized that the police had taken care of the wrong person. Now the preliminary investigation into official misconduct is closed, writes Dagens juridik.
Last fall, a supervisory board had a meeting where it was decided that a man in northern Sweden “should be immediately taken into custody and sent to the nearest detention center or police custody”.
The next day, the man was stopped in his car and taken to the jail, where he was locked up for two days.
The only problem was that the wrong name and social security number were written on the notification. The wrong person was thus deprived of liberty. An investigation into illegal detention was opened, but was later reclassified to misconduct.
The man said in questioning that it felt offensive to be locked up and that even though he did not seek any compensation, he wanted the matter to go to prosecution.
It won’t be like that.
The woman who kept the minutes during the committee’s meeting admits that she mixed up the names but that the whole thing should be seen as minor misconduct, which is not punishable. The chief prosecutor followed the woman’s line, and the preliminary investigation is therefore closed.