The police are setting up more and more surveillance cameras as part of the fight against crime. Over the next two years, 1,600 new fixed cameras will be set up in streets and squares. Which is three times as many as today’s 540. To that can also be counted a number of temporary cameras.
And even smaller municipalities are monitored. Skånska Eslöv currently has one surveillance camera, but will get four more in the central town.
– The camera means that you can feel safer in that place and then the police can go in and do criminal investigations. But it must be combined with other measures, says Johan Andersson (S), who is chairman of the Eslöv municipal board.
“Feels uncomfortable”
In the square in Eslöv stands resident Saad Rafique, who feels a little skeptical:
– It actually feels a little strange, that everyone looks at you when you walk. It feels a little uncomfortable.
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