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Freedom and democracy? What freedom when the police is listening to all our conversations

Friday, 22 June 2012
The number of people in Sweden who are whose telephone conversations are secretly intercepted and monitored by the police is on the increase. Last year it was 17 percent higher than a year earlier, according to a report by the Swedish Police and Swedish Prosecution Authority.

One reason attributed is said to be that serious organized crime is on the increase in Sweden and Gunnar Appelgren, detective chief inspector who led the effort against the high-profile Södertälje Network, says that those in the intervention had great use of secret surveillance.

“If we start for example with telephone interception then we have good conversations used as evidence to support the story as a victim and the plaintiffs have said, so we believe we have benefited greatly from it,” he said to radio Sweden.

The room eavesdropping gave good evidence in the operation against the Södertälje network in which 17 people, accused of various crimes including three murders,” says Chief Inspector Gunnar Appelgren.

Also persons in Sweden who were suspected police for suspected drug offenses saw their telephone and rooms bugged as well as monitored by video surveillance approaches

According to the report from the Swedish Police and the prosecution, 2040 people were last year secretly monitored in connection with a suspected crime. The year before, more than 1 700 people - an increase in words, but not remarkable, according Göran Hellstrand, deputy chief prosecutor at the development centre in Malmo.

The report assesses the prosecutors that the covert surveillance was of use to the investigation regarding some 70 percent of cases.
But in order to use the required approach for surveillance, the court must first grants permission. Moreover, it is costly for the police, but worth it, believes Commissioner Gunnar Appelgren. This has to do with the equipment and various legal costs.

So there is freedom but only the bad guys are being sort after. We however know that we are being watched after all.
By Scancomark.se Team


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