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Is policing reported to be adequate in terms of combating racist violence/hate crime effectively?

Code:
RED27
Key Area:
Anti-racist Crime Legislation & Implementation
Strand(s):
Racism
29/02/2012 - 15:46
Short Answer

No, although in some cities such as Stockholm, the police has established a Hate crime Unit, established to combate hate crimes.  These interventions are not nation-wide and there is lack of resources still in combating racial hate crimes and violence.

Qualitative Info

One of the major initiatives by the Swedish Police Service is the establishment of a Hate Crime Unit in Stockholm. The Hate Crime Unit has continued to evolve. From October 2009, there are hate crime coordinators in each district. They serve as contact persons together with the Hate Crime Unit and the County Bureau of Investigation, working with coordination, monitoring, and method development and providing information on hate crimes.  At the Hate Crime, six policemen including a squad leader, a preliminary investigator and four investigators are employed.


Source: The Swedish Police in Stockholm, http://www.polisen.se/

Data
Groups affected/interested Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Asylum seekers, Africans/black people, National minorities
Type (R/D) Extremism - organised Racist Violence, Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Intra-ethnic, On grounds of other belief, Anti-roma/ romaphobia, Xenophobia
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas Policing - law enforcement, Anti-discrimination, Anti-racism, Daily life, Religion
External Url http://www.polisen.se/
Situation(s)
Library
Thematic Study on Racist and related hate crimes in the EU - The case of Sweden