The police claimed during questioning that he accidentally scanned the wrong price tag.
In Sweden, an embarrassing suspected crime took place in Visby on the island of Gotland in October.
The police are suspected of trying to cheat while buying drinks and a takeaway from the salad bar at the local Ica supermarket, Swedish media reports.
At the self-service checkout, the police scanned their purchases as remarkably affordable. During the checkout process, he was subjected to a routine check to see if he had scanned his purchase correctly.
It turned out that the police had scanned the price of the purchases as 1.79 kroons, or just under 20 euro cents, but the real price would have been 91.64 kroons, or more than 8 euros.
For this reason, the police are now suspected of attempted fraud.
Expressen magazine during the interrogations, the police said that he was stressed and wanted to buy something cheap.
After scanning the price of the salad, he was shocked by the product’s cost.
Cheap salad with the wrong price tag
The police said that they went back to the scales to find out the price of the salad per kilo. He said he placed an object on the scale so he could print a price tag showing the price per kilo.
The police claimed to have accidentally scanned a new price tag at the self-service checkout. According to him, the intention was not to commit a crime.
– My intention was not to pay zero kroner, one kroner or whatever it cost for the salad, the police said according to Expressen.
The prosecutor was not convinced by the police’s speeches.
He believes that the police did the deed on purpose. The prosecutor considers that when assessing the crime, it must be taken into account that the suspect was wearing a police uniform during the incident.
According to the prosecutor, the police officer “seriously abused his position” and his actions can undermine citizens’ trust in the police.
In Finland, the police have found that customers try to cheat using self-service cash registers in a variety of ways. It was reported earlier this week Helsingin sanomat newspaper.
A salad bar scam cost a Finn last summer. He had weighed his salad portion in a Helsinki supermarket and then added products to the box from the salad bar. After being caught, he was fined 336 euros for a slight fraud, he said Evening News.
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