Swedish Police Hire Immigrants Amid Growing Ethnic Diversity In The Country

[Tennis]

http://www.ibtimes.com/immigrants-eu...ersity-2463036

The police force in Sweden wants hire a greater number of immigrants to adjust to the increasingly diverse population in the country. Law enforcement authorities are optimistic Swedes seeing more immigrants in police uniforms will give the force new “street cred.”

The initiative called the World Integrated into Swedish Police Project aims to increase ethnic diversity in every level of law enforcement.

"We need a lot more diversity in the police, applying to everything from ethnicity to different experiences and backgrounds," Carin Götblad, who leads the World Integrated into Swedish Police project, said in a press release.

Only 6 percent of Swedish police officers had an immigrant background as of Tuesday, compared to 17 percent of Swedes who are of immigrant descent nationally.

Sweden’s police departments had been accused of not employing enough officers, resulting in lower crime detection, local reports said Tuesday. But the police force hopes hiring more ethnic minorities will allow it to patrol “no-go zones” in Swedish cities — neighborhoods largely occupied by ethnic minorities that are riddled with unemployment and crime. Previously, Swedish law enforcement officers shied away from entering these parts of the city because they often were greeted with people throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at them.

There are reportedly 55 “no-go zones” in the country, RT reported Sept. 25. Because of the substantial level of abuse police experience in these areas, an average of three Swedish officers asked to resign from the force daily. Four of five Swedish police officers have contemplated changing their professions because of the significant risk associated with regulating these areas where patrol cars sometimes are set ablaze.

In a survey asking Swedes about their confidence in the police force in November, 47 percent of respondents said they were highly confident, a Sifo poll published earlier this month indicated. But when pollsters asked Swedes the same question in March, 61 percent of respondents said they had high confidence in the police.

“There have been discussions in the countryside where people say that there are no police. There were fatal shootings in Malmö and Gothenburg. There has been an intense debate about what the police can deliver, if they can get there, and which crimes are prosecuted,” Sifo opinion polls head Toivo Sjörén told reporters.

Following a summer plagued by an unprecedented number of sexual harassment cases during music festivals, the region of Skane, which is a six-hour drive south of Stockholm, requested help from the Stockholm police force because they had run out of homicide detectives.

The number of crimes reported in Sweden increased 2 percent in 2016 compared to last year. Through the first six months of 2016, there were 764,000 crimes reported in Sweden, including hundreds of rapes, murders and attempted murders. Sweden’s police force had a crime detection rate of 14 percent in 2016, the lowest in 16 years.[B[/B]

Good news but what were they waiting for?!?!

This should have been the policy all along. Over here we have a significant number of minorities in our police force and the Chief is a minority as well. Works well.

[Traveler Voltin]

What kind of immigrants?
Where are they coming from?

[Tennis]

What kind of immigrants?
Where are they coming from?

Why does that matter? It's ridiculous to have only 6% of them represented on the police force.

[Deleted]

Why does that matter? It's ridiculous to have only 6% of them represented on the police force.

I agree with you. There should be a quota to have a high immigrant percentage in the police force and it should be enforced no matter if more qualified people apply as a police officer.

We all know :

"Employing people based on their ability to perform a job ostracizes those with little or no skill and has no place in an inclusive society"

God damn it why is white sweden so racist.

[Tennis]

Becoming a police officer is easy. No reason why immigrants should be excluded.

[Deleted]

Becoming a police officer is easy. No reason why immigrants should be excluded.

Mayby its easy in Canada but it takes 2.5 years in Sweden and you have to pass psycological and physical tests not any1 can become part of the police.
And you have to do tests yearly i think so no obese police in Sweden.

[Deleted]

Sweden really is hellbent on erasing itself.

Such tolerance.


[Infracted]

[Puupi]

Becoming a police officer is easy. No reason why immigrants should be excluded.

Maybe in Canada or the US.

In some countries they actually have high requirements for becoming a police officer, not to mention the 4 year education it takes to become one.

[Deleted]

Sweden really is hellbent on erasing itself.

Such tolerance.

How is sweden erasing itself by hiring people who aren't ethnic swedes? Do you think immigrants or people who are not ethnic swedish shouldn't be able to work?

[Caelia]

Becoming a police officer is easy. No reason why immigrants should be excluded.

If it's so easy then why do most of the applicants fail in one way or another?
One of the reasons why immigrants fail is because they fail on both written and spoken language and you can't have police officers who can't make themselves properly understood, other than that they are not exluded in any way.

Also if they want more applicants they might want to increase the salary of police officers, 40% of Swedish police officers makes less money than I did working at McDonalds.

http://polistidningen.se/2016/04/1-0...ebbformularet/
Since this is in Swedish I'll translate the important parts.

4 589 people applied.
430 were removed from the selection imediately since they were on probation time. Basically if you for whatever reason failed your application you're not allowed to apply again for at least a year.
1 076 didn't fill in the web form required.
Another 611 failed because of what they wrote in the web form.
345 didn't have high enough grades.
174 applicants weren't registered with UHR, University and High-school counsil.
Six of those registered with UHF didn't have high enough merits.
30 of the applicants had been tried for crimes.

After these cuts the remaining 1917 were called in for testing. A third of the called applicants never showed up.

The remaining 1263 applicants were tested.

636 applican'ts failed Uniq which is a computerized proficiency test, another 24 failed Neo-Pir, a personality test.
203 applicants failed their psychology evaluation
48 applicants failed the ergometer bike.
42 applicants failed after their medical evaluation.

77 of the applicants that passed all tests were women, 2 of these of non Swedish background.
33 applicants failed on the Isokai test which measures your muscle strength where you need a 6 as a man and a 3 as a women to pass, only 1 man failed.

277 applicants passed all tests.
11 of these were rejected after "säkerhetssamtalet" which could refer to either talk about personal security or about a security check.
12 were added that passed at an earlier try but where there wasn't enough room for everyone.
21 withdrew their application

257 of the original 4589 applicants started their police training in January, this is 43 less than what the police department wanted.

[Deleted]

One of the reasons why immigrants fail is because they fail on both written and spoken language and you can't have police officers who can't make themselves properly understood, other than that they are not exluded in any way.

There are plenty of immigrants who can speak the languages of the country they moved to almost fluently or even fluently.

[Humppaveikko]

If it's so easy then why do most of the applicants fail in one way or another?
One of the reasons why immigrants fail is because they fail on both written and spoken language and you can't have police officers who can't make themselves properly understood, other than that they are not exluded in any way.

http://polistidningen.se/2016/04/1-0...ebbformularet/
Since this is in Swedish I'll translate the important parts.

4 589 people applied.
430 were removed from the selection imediately since they were on probation time. Basically if you for whatever reason failed your application you're not allowed to apply again for at least a year.
1 076 didn't fill in the web form required.
Another 611 failed because of what they wrote in the web form.
345 didn't have high enough grades.
174 applicants weren't registered with UHR, University and High-school counsil.
Six of those registered with UHF didn't have high enough merits.
30 of the applicants had been tried for crimes.

After these cuts the remaining 1917 were called in for testing. A third of the called applicants never showed up.

The remaining 1263 applicants were tested.

636 applican'ts failed Uniq which is a computerized proficiency test, another 24 failed Neo-Pir, a personality test.
203 applicants failed their psychology evaluation
48 applicants failed the ergometer bike.
42 applicants failed after their medical evaluation.

77 of the applicants that passed all tests were women, 2 of these of non Swedish background.
33 applicants failed on the Isokai test which measures your muscle strength where you need a 6 as a man and a 3 as a women to pass, only 1 man failed.

277 applicants passed all tests.
11 of these were rejected after "säkerhetssamtalet" which could refer to either talk about personal security or about a security check.
12 were added that passed at an earlier try but where there wasn't enough room for everyone.
21 withdrew their application

257 of the original 4589 applicants started their police training in January, this is 43 less than what the police department wanted.

So, easy. Now we need minority quotas because that's always a good idea. /sarcasm

[Caelia]

There are plenty of immigrants who can speak the languages of the country they moved to almost fluently or even fluently.

I know this, but are they the ones applying to the police academy? Or do they go in to corporate businesses?

[Underverse]

Diversity is great. Forced diversity has a cost that needs to be justified. If the justification is 'they will be harassed less in no-go zones', then this seems like it's a bandaid fix to a much deeper problem.

[zealo]

Becoming a police officer is easy. No reason why immigrants should be excluded.

Sweden has actual somewhat lengthy training to become a police officer. They just don't hire you on and give you a badge and a gun.

Anyhow, I see no problem with this since they'll need to pass through psychological suitability tests and what not before hand.

[burzian]

A government agency should endeavor to reflect the population it serves. Making a concerted effort to recruit (qualified) immigrants is a great idea.

[PC2]

Immigrants dominate native Swedes!

[Malacrass]

I think it makes sense to everyone that having your race represented in official positions helps integration, but picking people based on skincolor IS awful, no matter if it's the white supremacist only hiring whites or the SJW of the month only hiring minorities.

What I would propose is not a quota that 10% of the police force should be immigrants, but maybe a certain focus when it comes to advertisement. Say, if you advertise for the Police or the Military, make a spot that includes said minorities. Just being visually represented might help to push people to apply. And if more apply, naturally more will be represented.

But let them compete with everyone else, no minority bonus. And I say this because I absolutely believe that they don't need it, at least not when it comes to police work. Speaking another uncommon language alone is a good reason to hire person A over person B, assuming other criterias are met.

[Deleted]

Blatant racism.
Policemen should be chosen based on their ability to be a good policeman, rather than their skin colour or nationality...

[Kryos]

The good thing is as always the middle ground. Everything needs to be done in moderation. Sex, Alcohol, Drugs, Migration, Surveillance, Taxes and so on.
But it's always the extremists from all sides, left, right, religious that are the loudest and want their extreme (and wrong) answer to the problem.