Diversity project led to clan criminals getting jobs at the police - now three have been fired

Three women were fired last spring from the police as they are considered to be part of a criminal clan. This is evident from documents from the Police Authority’s personnel responsibility board. The women’s entry into the Police Authority began with a diversity project aimed at increasing the proportion of immigrants within the police.

It is in the mid-80s that an eight-child family comes to Sweden from Lebanon. The family settles, like many other migrants at that time, in Malmö.

Drug-dealing brothers

The four oldest children in the family are girls, while the four youngest are boys. And as these children grow up, they choose very different career paths.

Three of the younger boys make early criminal debuts: thefts, fraud, and smuggling. Assault, violent resistance, illegal threats, several unauthorized drives, negligence in traffic, and causing bodily harm.

But most of all, the three brothers are convicted of a large number of drug offenses of varying severity. Several prison sentences are handed down.

The three Lebanese brothers have extensive criminal records and are what is usually referred to as lifestyle criminals.

Jobs at the police

Two of the sisters in the family instead get jobs within the police. The older of them is recruited to the authority through a project aimed at increasing the so-called diversity within the Police Authority. Not least, the police leadership wants to see more Arabs in police uniforms. Arabic speakers are given priority for police training.

The woman starts police training and eventually begins working as a police intern. At the same time, her brothers commit several serious crimes.

One of the clan-designated women at the police. Photo: Private

The younger of the sisters instead gets a job at the Police Authority as a civilian case handler. She marries and has three children with a man who is a criminal and convicted of serious crime.

The younger sister and her husband have three children, one of whom is a woman who is now in her mid-twenties. Even that woman gets a job at the police, as a civilian administrator.

The recruitments are questioned by colleagues, but no one in the police leadership seems to see any problems with the fact that the three police-employed women have several close relatives engaged in serious and systematic crime.

Dismissed from the police

It has been more than fifteen years since the first woman in the criminal family from Lebanon got a job in the police. But it is only now that the authority has reacted and no longer considers them suitable.

In three separate decisions, the three women have suddenly been fired from the police. The reason is that their security clearances have been revoked due to close family ties to serious criminals. There are suspicions that they have problematic loyalties.

“If there is reason to do so, a previous assessment of a person’s suitability to participate in security-sensitive operations should be reconsidered. This can happen at any time and is usually prompted by some event or new information,” is noted in a document from the Police Authority’s security department, which Samnytt has seen.

The document concerns one of the three women, and the decision states that it was “decided after a comprehensive assessment and with regard to the interests the security protection law has to protect that [the woman’s name] can no longer be placed in a security class.”

The other two women have received identical decisions.

The three women were separated from their positions already in May last year, but it is only now that this has become known. Two of the women are reportedly pursuing legal action against the police to try to get their jobs back.