Today's uniform regulations dictate how it should be worn in connection with funerals, foreign service, and in court. Otherwise, the decision-making authority lies with certain police chiefs.
After a meeting with the Police Authority's ethics council, National Police Commissioner Petra Lundh says they agree on the inappropriateness of wearing a uniform when expressing personal opinions of a political or religious nature.
"It should also not be allowed to wear a uniform for profit, i.e., in connection with advertising for various products or services," Lundh writes to the Police Gazette.
When police influencers start showing off their workday in social media, problematic gray areas arise, says the authority's deputy chief of justice Sofie Lindblom to the newspaper.
Some have only police-related content that depicts the work, for example, the account YB Södermalm, while others mix pictures of themselves in uniform on duty with private pictures and messages. Then it becomes difficult to distinguish whether it is the authority or the private person behind it.
A working group will now come up with proposals for rule changes.
