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full screen The negotiation has taken place behind closed doors in the Södertörn District Court. Photo: Mikaela Landeström/TT
Two police officers in southern Stockholm who are accused of serious drug offenses and gross misconduct should be sentenced to several years in prison, the prosecutor believes.
The trial in the case, which was held behind closed doors in Södertörn district court in Huddinge, ended late on Thursday.
Prosecutor Marianne Nordström is calling for a multi-year prison sentence, and believes that the penalty value is between five and six years.
One of the police officers is charged with two cases of gross misconduct, breach of confidentiality and serious drug offence.
Infiltrate gang
According to the partially masked lawsuit, he allegedly influenced a person “to infiltrate and provide information” about crimes in a network. He did so despite the fact that there was a clear threat to the person, and despite the fact that it was not part of his mission to deal with such sources.
Furthermore, he is said to have caused the person to be contactable by phone for the network, despite the fact that the dropout activity explicitly asked the person to have it turned down.
The crime is serious, prosecutor Marianne Nordström believes, as the man “seriously abused his position as a policeman” and the action meant a risk to the person’s life.
The other police officer is charged with serious misconduct, breach of confidentiality, serious drug crime and minor drug crime.
Package drugs
The drug offenses for which they are suspected concern drugs that, among other things, are said to have been transported, repackaged and stored in an illegal manner.
Both police officers deny crime, and lawyer Jonas Granfelt, who represents the latter, emphasizes that there was no criminal intent.
– Our position is primarily that the drug crimes should be dismissed and to the extent that there has been a violation of the rules that requires criminal liability, it should be dealt with within the framework of liability for misconduct, he says.
The officers have been in custody since September and none of them were released when the hearing ended. The verdict will be announced in two weeks.