The staff sent a fax instead of directly calling the police when two boys suspected of shootings escaped from the Sis home Nereby on Monday, reports P4 Gothenburg.
According to the police, the escapees were given a head start of 30 minutes.
The staff first had to compile information about the escapees and then send a fax to the police, which according to the manager of the Sis home took twelve minutes.
– The police will not help us until we get our request for a hand out, says head of institution Catharina Högberg to the radio.
When asked why the staff did not make an emergency call to the police at first, she says:
– You could also do that, by calling and saying that we will arrive with a handshake. We don’t have such a routine that this is how we should do it.
Criticism of the home
She admits that it would have been good if they had called the alarm first.
By the time the police arrived at the scene, 30 minutes had passed since the boys had disappeared from the home, according to police spokesperson Thomas Fuxborg.
– Then you have made it quite far depending on the way you disappeared from the scene, he says to the radio.
The Ombudsman for Justice (JO) carried out an inspection at Nereby earlier this year and states that the conditions are “unacceptable”. Parts of the premises in Kungälv are directly unsuitable and are described by an employee as “rat nests”.
It also appears that newly hired personnel have not been allowed to attend Si’s basic training, something JO believes must be rectified urgently.
Suspects of shooting
The boys, who were placed at LVU, are suspected of shootings during what came to be known as a wave of violence in Stockholm.
A court case was due to begin against one of the boys on Thursday. The shooting he is suspected of took place in Fruängen in southern Stockholm at the end of January. About ten shots were fired with automatic weapons into an apartment.
The State Board of Institutions (Sis) is a state authority that conducts individually adapted compulsory care.
Care is provided at 21 special youth homes with roughly 700 places.
Sis accepts around 1,000 young people between the ages of 12 and 21 each year.
Most are placed in accordance with the Act on the care of young people (LVU).
Sis is also responsible for young people who have been sentenced to closed youth care (LSU) for, among other things, murder, manslaughter, assault, sexual offences, robbery and drug offences.
A total of three Sis homes are to be security classified at the highest security level, level 1: Tysslinge, Johannisberg and Klarälvsgården.
Others will be classified at level 2 or 3. In 2026, 15 homes are estimated to be classified.
Source: Sis