After Paramedic’s Murder, Investigator Rejects Flags Warning Ambulance Crews About Addresses

This spring, the government appointed an inquiry into the stabbing murder of a female ambulance paramedic in Harmånger, north of Hudiksvall, last autumn.

A 25-year-old man, who was later sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder, had threatened another ambulance paramedic just a few days earlier.

Investigator Stefan Jansson is now proposing, among other things, that patient records should include information about how a patient has previously treated healthcare staff.

However, he rejects so-called "flagging" - a system to warn ambulance staff before they go to an address where threats or violence have occurred in the past.

“It is a system that we will not advocate, for reasons of efficiency and legal certainty,” he says at a press conference.