After being involved in a traffic accident and suspected and charged with, among other things, drug possession, she was ousted from the Sweden Democrats and became a so-called political independent. Now Katja Nyberg is also losing her position with the Police Authority.
The former SD Member of Parliament Katja Nyberg became the focus of a high-profile legal process after a traffic accident in Värmdö at the end of December 2025. In connection with the incident, the police suspected she was under the influence, and during a search, a bag with white powder was seized, among other things. Analysis results later led the Swedish Transport Agency to withdraw her driver’s license after information about drugs and alcohol in her blood.
The investigation broadened after that, and Nyberg was indicted for drunk driving, minor drug use, drug possession, and serious driving without a license. The latter suspicion arose because, according to the prosecutor, she continued to drive despite having her license revoked. The investigation was extended, among other reasons due to analysis of hair samples, and was also complicated by the police making mistakes in handling some of the evidence.
Nyberg has consistently denied any wrongdoing and claimed that she neither drove under the influence nor used cocaine. She left the Sweden Democrats when the information became known but remains in the parliament as an independent. The case has received great attention since Nyberg previously worked as a police officer and made a name for herself on issues concerning law and order.
Fired from the Police
During her political career, Nyberg has been on leave from her work as a criminal inspector, a position she is now losing following a decision by the Personnel Responsibility Board (Pan).
Johan Olsson, head of the National Operations Department (Noa) where she worked as an investigator, writes in a request to Pan that Nyberg should be dismissed since she is considered to have “grossly neglected her duties towards the employer.”
In a statement to Polistidningen, Nyberg writes:
“I have worked as a police officer for most of my adult life and have carried out the assignment with pride. Whatever decision Pan makes, it does not change my respect for the police profession. This has been a very difficult period both professionally and personally. At the same time, I stand firmly by the principle that legal certainty, proportionality, and equality before the law must apply to everyone – including police officers.”
Questions the Hurry
Nyberg is critical that Pan did not wait for the results of the ongoing legal process.
“I find it hard to understand why it is considered so urgent to dismiss a police officer when I have, for a long time, been on leave to perform a parliamentary assignment and am not working operationally within the Police Authority.”