Latest news – Orange warning for storm

All police regions are called in to reduce queue times to 114 14 as Aftonbladet wrote about. This is what the police write on their website. According to the police, queue times are particularly long in Stockholm, and therefore other regions must help and support. Until you can hire more.

– We nationally need to have around 800 operators to meet the public’s service needs and today we lack around 300, says Jonas Hysing who is head of the National Contact Unit at the National Operational Department.

But when queue times are to be reduced in Stockholm, they mean that they are increasing in other parts of the country. Among other things in Bergslagen.

– The fact that we lend resources to Stockholm of course affects our own operations, states Stefan Lindqvist, acting head of the police contact center (PKC) in Bergslagen. Before lending, it took about 15 minutes to arrive at 114 14 in our region. Now the caller can expect to wait up to 30-40 minutes. Our hope is to get down to normal queue times again before the end of May.

After seven days in earthquake-stricken Turkey, the Swedish rescue team returns home, TT reports.

The 45 people from the Swedish Armed Forces and the Swedish Agency for Community Safety and Preparedness (MSB) have been tasked with finding and extricating trapped people. Search dogs have also been part of the team. They have also assisted with trauma care and other medical assistance.

Now the rescue effort will enter a new phase, writes TT.

Going forward, Sweden will focus on providing humanitarian support such as medicine and healthcare equipment, protective equipment and supplies and building emergency housing.

The police have refused to give permission for another Koran burning, this time outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm, reports SVT News.

The Koran burning was supposed to take place on Monday.

“Overall, the Security Police assesses that Koran burnings have increased in themselves and may increase in the future, the threat of attacks against Sweden and Swedish interests in the short term,” the decision states, according to SVT.

The Social Democrats’ party leader Magdalena Andersson spoke to Swedens radio about the scandal in Botkyrka and the latest information ETC that representatives of S offered to pay the membership fee for new members before the annual meeting.

– It is of course serious. All members of our party must follow the bylaws that we have and therefore we have initiated a supervisory case.

What does that mean?

– Yes, that you see if everything has gone correctly or if it is the case that you are breaking our bylaws.

In about a month, it will be time for voting to see who will be the new chairman of the municipal board in Botkyrka after Eva Östlin. Now the party leadership has started an oversight case.

– Yes, if it is the case that the party district needs support, there are of course opportunities to give them support.

But several members tell Sverige Radio that they are still convinced that gang criminals have infiltrated the party.

– If someone has any information at all, it is important to get in touch immediately, says Magdalena Andersson.

The Swedish Migration Agency is currently having IT problems.

People who try to visit the authority’s website are met with the text: “The website cannot be reached”.

The Swedish Migration Agency’s press spokesperson Robert Haecks confirms the IT problem in an email to Aftonbladet.

“Simply put, you can say that it is out of sync between different servers, we are now fixing that together with our suppliers. The goal is for this to be resolved before the end of the working day. It is not about an attack,” he writes.

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) will meet US Vice President Kamala Harris this weekend, TT reports.

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin will also attend the meeting, which will take place at the annual security conference in Munich.

According to Reuters, among other things, Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO applications will be discussed.

At lunch, the police were alerted to a scooter accident in Härjedalen.

Mountain rescuers were called to the scene who were able to help the person who has now been taken to medical care. There is no information on the state of damage.

The government wants the police to have the right to body search people entering or leaving Sweden – without there being a concrete suspicion of a crime, reports Echo.

The new powers will apply at certain airports, ports and railway stations, according to the proposal sent to the Legislative Council today.

The new legislation, which will apply from 1 August, makes it easier for the police to intervene against the crime that takes place at the border, according to Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M).

– We have big problems with cross-border crime, and the police today have too weak tools when it comes to the possibility of preventing that crime, says Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) to the radio.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu are currently holding a press conference.

Among other things, they talk about Sweden’s and Finland’s applications to NATO.

– It is high time to ratify both Finland’s and Sweden’s applications, says Jens Stoltenberg.

At the same time, he emphasizes that the decision rests with Turkey.

– It is Turkey that decides whether to ratify Sweden’s application or not, it is up to them to make that decision.

King Carl XVI Gustaf is on an anniversary trip through Sweden. On Thursday, he visits Jönköping, which is the last stop before the heart operation on Monday.

It is about a planned intervention with peephole technology in the heart area, and takes place on the advice of the king’s physician.

To TT’s question about how he feels about the procedure, the king replies:

– It feels great!

The king works as usual until the operation, and is recommended to rest afterwards. This means that all planned commitments between February 20 and March 3 are moved to later this spring.