The report has been carried out within the framework of the police's national operation Beta, which aims to prevent serious and deadly violence in close relationships. It has examined 17 cases from 2023-2024 where women have been murdered by a close male relative.
In three of the cases, the police did not even file a report on the violence despite being aware that violence had been committed. In a couple of cases, it is established that they would have been alive if the police had not failed in their work.
Many times, it has been cases where the perpetrator has done this violence over a longer repetitive period, says Jale Poljarevius, national operational head of Beta, at a press conference.
According to Poljarevius, the police's lack of attitude is something that is reflected in the rest of society as well.
The whole society is built on this, it's a cultural issue. We cannot just conclude that the woman does not want to file a report, he says further.
It's an empathy that must function.
The police are now launching an action plan to improve their work in this area, where, among other things, checklists and risk and vulnerability factors will be prioritized.
It's about finding flaws and plugging them, says Erika Gyllenswärd, who works with Beta.
If we do good interviews from the start, then we have an investigation that can be driven further. Instead of, as many times now, doing an interview or two and the woman says I don't want to drive it further and then we drop it, she continues.
