After more than three decades in service with the police in Ystad, the last few years at the reception, after being dismissed, Carina Björk wanted to return and treat her colleagues to cake. Two weeks earlier, she had emailed the police station in Ystad and announced that she would come by, but when she showed up at the end of January, she was told by a colleague that she was not welcome, that Audience and The evening post reported on.
– I got so terribly angry and when the anger had subsided, reasonably, I was so disappointed and sad, says Carina Björk, about her managers’ handling of the visit.
“Not about my cakes”
According to Carina Björk, the colleague at the door announced that she could not enter the so-called shell protection because she was no longer security classified. The cakes went to the colleagues, but Carina Björk turned home.
– It’s not really about me and my cakes, it’s about an attitude on the part of my employers that I can’t understand.
New routines
Local police area chief Frida Lovén does not want to appear for an interview, but writes in an email that the Police Agency has increased its security procedures due to the situation in the world with the war in Ukraine, blown gas pipelines off the south coast and a heightened threat image towards Sweden. Anyone who has terminated their employment no longer has access to the police station.
“This information and our new routines are not new and nothing that was created so that an individual former employee would not be allowed to offer cake,” she writes and continues:
“What I see in retrospect, however, is that we could have handled the communication better with the former employee.”
Hear Carina in the clip above.