Security Guards' Powers

The plan protects personal integrity and a broad private sphere, and wants to address crime with an engaged criminal justice system and more police rather than with expanded coercive measures in other hands. It particularly warns against racism and excessive force against young people in poor areas and demands independent scrutiny of those authorized to use force. Not granting security guards the right to conduct body searches for identification or transport detained persons follows from this.

• personal integrityweak support»Alla människor har rätt till en bred privat sfär« (party programme ↗)“All people have the right to a broad private sphere”
• risk of excessive forcedecisive»Många unga, särskilt med utländsk bakgrund, som bor i fattiga områden, utsätts även för rasism och övervåld från polisen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Many young people, especially with a foreign background, who live in poor areas, are also subjected to racism and excessive force by the police”
• scrutiny of those using force»oberoende system för att granska de yrkesgrupper, till exempel polisen« (party programme ↗)“independent system to scrutinize those professional groups, for example the police,”
• police not security guards»Kriminaliteten behöver mötas både med ett fungerande och närvarande rättssystem som fler patrullerande poliser« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Crime must be met both with a functioning and engaged criminal justice system with more patrolling police”

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The plan's line is that society's full force shall be mobilised against criminality and that the justice system shall receive more tools and strengthened presence, which speaks against rejecting expanded powers that free up police resources. The party programme simultaneously requires that society responds clearly to crime, but also that personal integrity is protected, which makes the conclusion uncertain. Overall, the plan rejects the counter-proposal's demand not to grant the powers.

• uncompromising crime fightingdecisive»Kampen mot kriminaliteten ska vara kompromisslös. Samhällets fulla kraft ska mobiliseras för att trycka tillbaka de kriminella, kapa återväxten in i kriminaliteten och öka tryggheten.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The fight against criminality shall be uncompromising. Society's full force shall be mobilised to push back the criminals, cut off the growth back into criminality and increase security.”
• more tools for police»Kraftigt öka antalet poliser på våra gator och torg. Vi vill säkra och stärka polisnärvaron i hela landet. Polisen behöver också fler verktyg, som bättre möjligheter till avlyssning och husrannsakan.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Significantly increase the number of police on our streets and squares. We want to ensure and strengthen police presence throughout the country. Police also need more tools, such as better opportunities for wiretapping and house searches.”
• clear response to crime»Samhället måste reagera tydligt mot brott och regelöverträdelser.« (party programme ↗)“Society must respond clearly to crime and violations of rules.”
• protection of personal integrity»Det är samhällets absoluta skyldighet att skydda friheten och den personliga integriteten« (party programme ↗)“It is society's absolute duty to protect freedom and personal integrity”

The plan opposes laws that involve disproportionate interference with personal integrity and states that crime-fighting must not occur at the expense of human rights. Body searches for identity control and transport of persons in custody are precisely such coercive measures, and the plan's response to public order problems is more and better-paid police with citizen oversight, not expanded powers for security guards.

• protection against integrity interferencedecisive»alla lagar som innebär oproportionerliga ingrepp i« (party programme ↗)“all laws that involve disproportionate interference in”
• crime-fighting within human rights»viktigt men ska inte ske på bekostnad av mänskliga« (party programme ↗)“important but must not occur at the expense of human”
• more police instead»se fler och bättre betalda poliser för att bekämpa den organiserade brottsligheten och för att motverka parallellsamhällen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“see more and better-paid police to combat organized crime and to counter parallel societies.”
• oversight of law enforcement activities»Det ska finnas god medborgerlig insyn i all« (party programme ↗)“There shall be good citizen oversight of all”

The plan's crucial commitment is to defend the rule of law and the individual's rights against the state and to reject invasive coercive measures, and all legislation should be tested against its impact on personal integrity. Body searches to establish identity and transport of detained persons are such invasive measures. The plan responds to the need for police presence with more police, not with expanded powers for security guards.

• no to invasive coercive measuresdecisive»Rättsstaten och individens rättigheter gentemot staten måste försvaras. Vi säger därför nej till visitationszoner, kollektiv bestraffning, omvänd bevisbörda, anonyma vittnen, preventiv avlyssning och inskränkningar av religionsfriheten.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The rule of law and the individual's rights against the state must be defended. We therefore say no to search zones, collective punishment, reversed burden of proof, anonymous witnesses, preventive surveillance and restrictions on religious freedom.”
• integrity review of lawsweak support»All lagstiftning bör prövas mot dess påverkan på människors personliga integritet.« (party programme ↗)“All legislation should be tested against its impact on people's personal integrity.”
• police tasks to the police»Fler poliser ska finnas närvarande i vardagen, både i utsatta områden och på landsbygden.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“More police should be present in everyday life, both in vulnerable areas and in rural areas.”
• state's monopoly on force»Staten är den enda enheten i samhället som får utöva tvång och våld.« (party programme ↗)“The state is the only entity in society that may exercise coercion and violence.”

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The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The election manifesto wants to give law enforcement authorities more and more intrusive tools and achieve significantly increased police density; freeing police resources by having others perform transports and identity checks lies in that direction. The counter-proposal's requirement to deny security guards these powers thereby goes against the plan's direction. The plan's integrity principle constitutes a qualifying but not decisive objection, since the powers are limited and the police decide.

• more tools for the justice systemdecisive»Avlyssning och andra hemliga tvångsmedel ska kunna användas både vid misstanke om fler brott än i dag och efter domstolsbeslut mot organiserade gängmedlemmar även utan konkret brottsmisstanke.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Wiretapping and other secret coercive measures shall be able to be used both when suspecting more crimes than today and after court decision against organized gang members even without concrete suspicion of crime.”
• more police resources for core tasks»Därför vill vi på sikt nå 33 000 poliser så att polistätheten blir minst lika hög som i övriga Europa.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Therefore we want in the long term to reach 33,000 police so that police density becomes at least as high as in the rest of Europe.”
• integrity protection as counterweight»Skyddet för den enskildes integritet ska stärkas.« (party programme ↗)“Protection for the individual's integrity shall be strengthened.”
• state responsibility for crime prevention»det är endast staten som ska bekämpa brott och ansvara för en fungerande rättsordning.« (party programme ↗)“it is only the state that shall combat crime and be responsible for a functioning legal order.”

The plan's key commitment is to clarify the police mandate so that police can concentrate on crime-fighting. Moving transports and identity checks to security guards frees up precisely such police resources, while the counter-proposal wants to prevent this. The plan's demand for strong protection of integrity argues for careful delimitation but not against the powers as such.

• clarified police mandatedecisive»Renodla polisens uppdrag. Polisen fokuserar idag alldeles för mycket på annat än brottsbekämpning.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Clarify the police mandate. Today police focus far too much on things other than crime-fighting.”
• more police»Fler poliser och höjda polislöner.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“More police and increased police salaries.”
• security through the justice system»en fri och oberoende rättskipning ger trygghet för personlig integritet och egendom.« (party programme ↗)“a free and independent administration of justice provides security for personal integrity and property.”
• strong protection of integrity»Den personliga integriteten ska ha ett starkt« (party programme ↗)“Personal integrity shall have strong”

The plan wants to streamline the police force's mission so that police can dedicate themselves to detecting, investigating and clearing up crimes, and it explicitly gives law enforcement officers new authorities in another field. Denying law enforcement officers the right to body search for identification and to transport custody removals would keep these tasks with the police and bind up the resources the plan wants to free. The plan therefore argues against the counter-proposal's demand.

• streamlined police missiondecisive»Renodla Polisens uppdrag med fokus på att upptäcka, utreda och klara upp brott« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Streamline the Police's mission with a focus on detecting, investigating and clearing up crimes”
• expanded law enforcement authority»Skärpa straffen för miljöbrott och nedskräpning och ge ordningsvakter befogenhet att dela ut böter för småskräp« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Tighten sentences for environmental crimes and litter and give law enforcement officers authority to issue fines for minor littering”
• delegate tasks from police(2022 manifesto)
• authority outside police»Ge butiksägare rätt att bestämma vem som får vistas i butikslokalen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Give shop owners the right to decide who is allowed to stay in the shop premises”

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The election manifesto explicitly wants to test complementing the police organization with order guards with expanded authority and appropriate equipment, and to relieve the police. The party programme states that law enforcement agencies shall have necessary authority to protect citizens. The counter-proposal's demand that order guards not be given the right to body search and transport thus directly conflicts with the plan's commitment.

• order guards with expanded authoritydecisive»Fler vägar in i polisyrket behöver också utredas liksom om det är möjligt att komplettera den befintliga polisorganisationen med att anställa ordningsvakter med utvidgade befogenheter och ändamålsenlig utrustning.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“More ways into the police profession also need to be investigated as well as whether it is possible to complement the existing police organization by hiring order guards with expanded authority and appropriate equipment.”
• relieve the police»Avlasta poliserna med civilanställda« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Relieve the police with civilian employees”
• necessary resources to the police»Polisen, gränsskyddet och de rättsvårdande myndigheterna måste tilldelas erforderliga resurser« (party programme ↗)“The police, border protection, and law enforcement agencies must be allocated necessary resources”
• the police's prerequisites»Ge polisen förutsättningarna för att bekämpa brottslighet« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Give the police the prerequisites for combating crime”