Newly appointed national police chief Petra Lundh demanded a deputy national police chief, a position assigned to Stefan Hector.
Leif GW Persson is not completely convinced of the new police chief duo and is handing out a boot to the police authority.
– I’m actually worried about them. It worries me.
When Leif GW Persson visits Nyhetsmorgon on Sunday as usual, he describes the new deputy national police chief Stefan Hector, an experienced old picket policeman who was also head of the task force.
– Hector is a real constable! He is strikingly similar to all the others in the leadership echelon of the national police. They are the same age, were friends when they went to the police academy and many of them had me as a teacher, says Leif GW Persson.
Leif GW Persson’s criticism of the Police
The criminologist believes that it is good that Stefan Hector got the position as he is “a real constable”, but believes that important skills can be lost in the same way.
– I’m actually worried about them. It worries me. There are other things in the organization that I don’t really think they can handle. It is precisely the high bureaucracy that surrounds them and that is where their constable skills are lost, he says and continues:
– The police are overwhelmed by their own bureaucracy. But if we only had people like Hector working in the business and in the field, the situation would look significantly different.
“Becomes a victim in the context”
Leif GW Persson believes that it is a difficult challenge for the Police to get away from the bureaucracy. Something that, according to him, has become the authority’s big dilemma.
– That people are so busy with themselves that the core business itself will be put on exception. There are people like Stefan Hector, Mats Löfving, Anders Thornberg who become victims in this context. Actually, they are not like that.
Leif GW Persson also questions the new police chief duo Petra Lundh and Stefan Hector. He says that “lawyers are often not popular with real constables”.
– I don’t think it’s an ideal marriage actually.