2025-04-102024/25:JuU16 · p.1JuUJustice
Legislation on coercive measures
Time limits and evaluation of legislation on secret coercive measures
What's at stake: Secret coercive measures such as wiretapping can now be used against more and less serious crimes and even without a concrete suspicion, affecting the personal privacy of anyone who could be monitored, while the tools are sought after for preventing and solving crime.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is whether legislation expanding the police's ability to use secret and preventive coercive measures should be time-limited and continuously evaluated for its impact on privacy, or whether an already ongoing government inquiry into the rules makes a separate parliamentary initiative unnecessary.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The Committee notes that the government has already tasked a special investigator with conducting a legal and systematic review of the rules on secret and preventive coercive measures, including an analysis of the impact on personal privacy, and therefore sees no reason for parliament to take any further initiative.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 1 (S, MP)
The reservation (Social Democrats, Green Party) considers that the extensive expansion of coercive measures — including preventive use without a concrete suspicion — entails major privacy intrusions, and wants such legislation to be time-limited and continuously evaluated to assess whether its purpose is achieved and whether the regulation is proportionate.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 1 by S, MP.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The decision would have gone the other way
Explicit commitments that contradicted the vote: CCenterpartiet, LLiberalerna, VVänsterpartiet
Ja 183–103Nej 132–154
Counterfactual: the parties above are moved to the position their own documents explicitly point at, carrying their whole contingent present. Every other party keeps its real figures, including dissenters and absentees.
How the AI parties would have voted
For each party: what its own plan – election manifesto and party programme – argues for in this case, next to how the party actually voted. The AI can only answer Yes or No; a party can also abstain.
| AI | Vote | Confidence | Evidence | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V | No | Yes 19/0/0/5 | differsagainst own programme | confidence: high | explicit |
| S | Yes | No 0/89/0/17 | differs | confidence: medium | not addressed |
| MP | No | No 0/13/0/5 | match | confidence: high | explicit |
| C | No | Yes 20/0/0/4 | differsagainst own programme | confidence: high | explicit |
| L | No | Yes 12/0/0/4 | differsagainst own programme | confidence: medium | explicit |
| KD | No | Yes 14/0/0/5 | differs | confidence: medium | not addressed |
| M | Yes | Yes 56/0/0/12 | match | confidence: medium | not addressed |
| SD | Yes | Yes 62/0/0/10 | match | confidence: medium | not addressed |
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects motion 2024/25:3111 by Teresa Carvalho et al. (S) proposal 49.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motion 2024/25:3111 av Teresa Carvalho m.fl. (S) yrkande 49.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag rejected approximately 50 proposals in motions on procedural law issues. Among other things, referring to ongoing work. The proposals were submitted during the general motion period 2024 and concern, among other things, legislation on coercive measures, court procedures, Swedish Courts and legal aid.
Counter-proposals
- The counter-proposal wants the legislation on expanded coercive powers to be time-limited and continuously evaluated to assess proportionality and goal achievement. (S, MP) — Reservation 1
Plan vs actual vote
Every party, in chamber order: what its own plan pointed to, how it voted, and the reasoning behind both. Highlighted rows are where the two differ — but a vote that follows the plan is a result too, so the reasoning is there for every party.
The party programme establishes that all people have the right to protection of their personal integrity and that the presumption of innocence is fundamental, and that legal security must be maintained through public scrutiny and independent review.
Plan documents: party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The party programme establishes that all people have the right to protection of their personal integrity and that the presumption of innocence is fundamental, and that legal security must be maintained through public scrutiny and independent review. The counter-proposal's requirement that coercive powers legislation be time-limited and continuously evaluated is exactly such a review of proportionality. The plan also requires that the police are clearly embedded in democratic structures.
Original (Swedish)
Partiprogrammet slår fast att alla människor har rätt till skydd av sin personliga integritet och att oskuldspresumtionen är grundläggande, samt att rättssäkerheten ska upprätthållas genom medborgerlig insyn och oberoende granskning. Motförslagets krav på att tvångsmedelslagstiftning tidsbegränsas och utvärderas kontinuerligt är just en sådan granskning av proportionaliteten. Planen kräver också att polisen är tydligt inordnad i demokratiska strukturer.
- personal integritydecisive»har rätt till skydd av sin personliga integritet.« (party programme ↗)“have the right to protection of their personal integrity.”
- presumption of innocence»anses oskyldiga tills motsatsen är bevisad är grundläggande i det.« (party programme ↗)“are considered innocent until the contrary is proven is fundamental in that.”
- scrutiny and independent review»Rättssäkerheten behöver upprätthållas genom rättshjälp, medborgerlig« (party programme ↗)“Legal security must be maintained through legal aid, public”
- rule of law guarantees»Samhället behöver ett väl fungerande rättsväsende, med självständiga« (party programme ↗)“Society needs a well-functioning legal system, with independent”
The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.
The election manifesto, which carries the most weight, explicitly wants to give police more tools with better opportunities for wiretapping and house searches and describes the fight against crime as uncompromising.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto · party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The election manifesto, which carries the most weight, explicitly wants to give police more tools with better opportunities for wiretapping and house searches and describes the fight against crime as uncompromising. A requirement that coercive measures legislation shall be time-limited and continuously reviewed pulls in the opposite direction and risks weakening the tools the plan wants to expand. The party programme's protection of privacy speaks for the counter-proposal, but the manifesto's more recent commitment carries more weight.
Original (Swedish)
Valmanifestet, som väger tyngst, vill uttryckligen ge polisen fler verktyg med bättre möjligheter till avlyssning och husrannsakan och beskriver kampen mot kriminaliteten som kompromisslös. Ett krav på att tvångsmedelslagstiftningen ska tidsbegränsas och löpande omprövas drar åt motsatt håll och riskerar att försvaga de verktyg planen vill bygga ut. Partiprogrammets integritetsskydd talar för motförslaget, men manifestets färskare åtagande väger tyngre.
- more tools for policedecisive»Polisen behöver också fler verktyg, som bättre möjligheter till avlyssning och husrannsakan« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Police also need more tools, such as better opportunities for wiretapping and house searches”
- uncompromising crime prevention»Kampen mot kriminaliteten ska vara kompromisslös« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The fight against crime shall be uncompromising”
- protection for personal integrity»Det är samhällets absoluta skyldighet att skydda friheten och den personliga integriteten« (party programme ↗)“It is society's absolute obligation to protect freedom and personal integrity”
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 party programme states that the party opposes all laws that entail disproportionate inroads into privacy and that crime-fighting must not occur at the expense of human rights.
Plan documents: party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The party programme states that the party opposes all laws that entail disproportionate inroads into privacy and that crime-fighting must not occur at the expense of human rights. Increased surveillance capabilities require that policy protects privacy. That coercive measures legislation be time-limited and continuously evaluated regarding proportionality follows directly from this.
Original (Swedish)
Partiprogrammet slår fast att partiet motsätter sig alla lagar som innebär oproportionerliga ingrepp i integriteten och att brottsbekämpning inte får ske på bekostnad av mänskliga rättigheter. Ökade övervakningsmöjligheter kräver enligt planen att politiken slår vakt om integriteten. Att tvångsmedelslagstiftning tidsbegränsas och fortlöpande utvärderas i fråga om proportionalitet följer direkt av detta.
- rejects disproportionate inroadsdecisive»alla lagar som innebär oproportionerliga ingrepp i« (party programme ↗)“all laws that entail disproportionate inroads into”
- crime-fighting within rights frameworks»viktigt men ska inte ske på bekostnad av mänskliga« (party programme ↗)“important but shall not occur at the expense of human”
- safeguard privacy against surveillance»kräver att politiken slår vakt om människors« (party programme ↗)“requires that policy protects people's”
- right to privacy and private life»Vi vill värna människors rätt till integritet och« (party programme ↗)“We want to safeguard people's right to privacy and”
The plan explicitly says no to preventive surveillance and requires that all legislation be tested against its impact on integrity, with proportionality between encroachment and purpose.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto · party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The plan explicitly says no to preventive surveillance and requires that all legislation be tested against its impact on integrity, with proportionality between encroachment and purpose. Time-limiting and continuously evaluating coercive measure legislation is just such a proportionality test. The plan thus supports the demand.
Original (Swedish)
Planen säger uttryckligen nej till preventiv avlyssning och kräver att all lagstiftning prövas mot sin påverkan på integriteten, med proportionalitet mellan intrång och syfte. Att tidsbegränsa och kontinuerligt utvärdera tvångsmedelslagstiftning är just en sådan proportionalitetsprövning. Planen stöder därför kravet.
- no to preventive surveillancedecisive»Vi säger därför nej till visitationszoner, kollektiv bestraffning, omvänd bevisbörda, anonyma vittnen, preventiv avlyssning och inskränkningar av religionsfriheten.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We therefore say no to stop-and-search zones, collective punishment, reversed burden of proof, anonymous witnesses, preventive surveillance and restrictions on freedom of religion.”
- proportionality requirement»Det måste finnas en proportionalitet mellan lagstiftningens inskränkning av medborgarnas integritet och lagarnas syfte.« (party programme ↗)“There must be proportionality between legislation's restriction of citizens' integrity and legislation's purpose.”
- integrity assessment of legislationweak 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.”
- rule of law protection»Rättsstaten och individens rättigheter gentemot staten måste försvaras.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The rule of law and the individual's rights against the state must be defended.”
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The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.
The party programme explicitly requires that laws already introduced with strong impact on personal integrity be regularly evaluated and that all new legislative proposals be analysed from an integrity perspective.
Plan documents: party programme · 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The party programme explicitly requires that laws already introduced with strong impact on personal integrity be regularly evaluated and that all new legislative proposals be analysed from an integrity perspective. The counter-proposal's demand for continuous evaluation of coercive powers legislation is precisely that commitment. The plan simultaneously wants to expand the secret coercive powers, but this concerns the tools, not their follow-up.
Original (Swedish)
Partiprogrammet kräver uttryckligen att redan införda lagar med stark påverkan på den personliga integriteten regelbundet utvärderas och att alla nya lagförslag analyseras ur integritetssynpunkt. Motförslagets krav på kontinuerlig utvärdering av tvångsmedelslagstiftningen är just det åtagandet. Planen vill samtidigt utvidga de hemliga tvångsmedlen, men det gäller verktygen, inte uppföljningen av dem.
- regular evaluation of integrity lawsdecisive»påverkan på den personliga integriteten ska regelbundet utvärderas.« (party programme ↗)“impact on personal integrity be regularly evaluated.”
- integrity assessment of proposals»Alla nya lagförslag ska analyseras ur integritetssynpunkt.« (party programme ↗)“All new legislative proposals shall be analysed from an integrity perspective.”
- strengthened integrity protection»Skyddet för den enskildes integritet ska stärkas.« (party programme ↗)“Protection for the individual's integrity shall be strengthened.”
- expanded secret coercive powers»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 ↗)“Surveillance and other secret coercive powers shall be able to be used both for suspicion of more crimes than today and after court decision against organized gang members even without concrete criminal suspicion.”
The stance rests on the quoted commitment in the party's own documents; the actual vote deviated. Click the quote to verify it in the document.
The plan gives personal integrity a strong constitutional protection and explicitly requires that police powers are clearly defined and that integrity protection is preserved.
Plan documents: party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The plan gives personal integrity a strong constitutional protection and explicitly requires that police powers are clearly defined and that integrity protection is preserved. The idea of limited power means that too much power must not be placed in anyone's hands, which supports the requirement for time-limitation and ongoing evaluation of coercive measures legislation. Evaluation and monitoring are according to the plan an important political task.
Original (Swedish)
Planen ger den personliga integriteten ett starkt grundlagsskydd och kräver uttryckligen att polisiära befogenheter är tydligt avgränsade och att integritetsskyddet värnas. Ofullkomlighetstanken innebär att för mycket makt inte får läggas i någons händer, vilket bär kravet på tidsbegränsning och löpande utvärdering av tvångsmedelslagstiftningen. Utvärdering och uppföljning är enligt planen en viktig politisk uppgift.
- strong integrity protectiondecisive»Den personliga integriteten ska ha ett starkt« (party programme ↗)“Personal integrity shall have a strong”
- defined powers»Det europeiska polissamarbetet ska vara väl utvecklat samtidigt som dess befogenheter ska vara tydligt avgränsade, och skyddet för den« (party programme ↗)“European police cooperation shall be well developed while its powers shall be clearly defined, and protection of the”
- separation of powers»makt inte får läggas i en enskild människas, grupps eller partis händer.« (party programme ↗)“power must not be placed in any single person's, group's or party's hands.”
- evaluation as a political task»Utvärdering, kostnadsuppföljning och kvalitetskontroll är därför viktiga politiska« (party programme ↗)“Evaluation, cost monitoring and quality control are therefore important political”
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 plan wants to significantly expand police tools against gang crime: visit zones, far more surveillance cameras and reversed burden of proof to access gang assets.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto · party programme
Reasoning and quotes
The plan wants to significantly expand police tools against gang crime: visit zones, far more surveillance cameras and reversed burden of proof to access gang assets. The counter-proposal requires that such coercive legislation is time-limited and continuously reviewed on privacy grounds, which would make the tools uncertain over time. The plan sees freedom and security as compatible and prioritizes pushing back crime.
Original (Swedish)
Planen vill kraftigt utvidga polisens verktyg mot gängkriminaliteten: visitationszoner, långt fler övervakningskameror och omvänd bevisbörda för att komma åt gängens tillgångar. Motförslaget kräver att sådan tvångsmedelslagstiftning tidsbegränsas och löpande omprövas av integritetsskäl, vilket skulle göra verktygen osäkra över tid. Planen ser frihet och trygghet som förenliga och prioriterar att brottsligheten trycks tillbaka.
- expanded police powersdecisive»Införa visitationszoner så att Polisen får bättre möjligheter att leta efter vapen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Introduce visit zones so that the Police have better opportunities to search for weapons”
- more camera surveillance»Kraftigt öka antalet övervakningskameror« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Significantly increase the number of surveillance cameras”
- reversed burden of proof against gangs»Ta gängens pengar och införa en omvänd bevisbörda för att kunna beslagta gängmedlemmarnas lyxprylar« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Take gangs' money and introduce a reversed burden of proof to be able to confiscate gang members' luxury goods”
- freedom requires security»Frihet och trygghet går hand i hand.« (party programme ↗)“Freedom and security go hand in hand.”
The plan establishes that few political measures are too far-reaching against criminal gangs and wants to expand mapping through intelligence work, surveillance, camera surveillance and wiretapping.
Plan documents: 2022 manifesto
Reasoning and quotes
The plan establishes that few political measures are too far-reaching against criminal gangs and wants to expand mapping through intelligence work, surveillance, camera surveillance and wiretapping. It additionally wants to remove procedural obstacles to increased prosecution. Time-limiting coercive measures legislation citing privacy restrictions goes against this line.
Original (Swedish)
Planen slår fast att få politiska åtgärder är för långtgående mot de kriminella gängen och vill utöka kartläggningen genom underrättelsearbete, spaning, kameraövervakning och avlyssning. Den vill dessutom undanröja processuella hinder för ökad lagföring. Att tidsbegränsa tvångsmedelslagstiftningen med hänvisning till integritetsinskränkningar går emot denna linje.
- no measures too far-reachingdecisive»Sverigedemokraterna anser att få politiska åtgärder är för långtgående när det kommer till att pressa tillbaka både de kriminella gängen och den kultur som gör att de får fäste.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Sweden Democrats believe that few political measures are too far-reaching when it comes to pushing back both criminal gangs and the culture that makes them gain ground.”
- expanded surveillance tools»Åtgärder ska vidtas för att bättre kunna kartlägga gängaktiva genom t.ex. underrättelsearbete och informationsinhämtning, spaning, kameraövervakning och avlyssning.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Measures should be taken to better map gang-active individuals through, for example, intelligence work and information gathering, surveillance, camera surveillance and wiretapping.”
- effective tools against gangs»Framförallt behöver rättsväsendet få mer effektiva verktyg för att bekämpa gängbrott.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Above all, the legal system needs more effective tools to combat gang crime.”
- remove procedural obstacles»Processuella hinder för att möjliggöra en ökad lagföring måste också undanröjas.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Procedural obstacles to enabling increased prosecution must also be removed.”
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Sources and documents
- The committee report on riksdagen.se (2024/25:JuU16)
- Committee report full text (HC01JuU16)
- Per-MP voting data (API)
- Case status (API)
Documents under consideration
- Motion 2024/25:100 — Införande av ämbetsdräkt för domare av Torsten Elofsson (KD)
- Motion 2024/25:1309 — Ett reformerat system med nämndemän av Rasmus Ling m.fl. (MP)
- Motion 2024/25:1490 — Ett rättssystem som sätter brottsoffret i fokus av Magnus Berntsson (KD)
- Motion 2024/25:1657 — Kriminalisering av det ekonomiska våldet av Karin Sundin (S)
- Motion 2024/25:1904 — Åtgärder mot organiserad brottslighet av Gudrun Nordborg m.fl. (V)
- Motion 2024/25:1929 — Rättsväsendet av Gudrun Nordborg m.fl. (V)
- Motion 2024/25:1997 — Märkning av åtelkameror och fällor med jägar-id av Erik Ottoson (M)
- Motion 2024/25:2022 — Ökad transparens i tillståndsprocesser av Ulrik Nilsson (M)
- Motion 2024/25:2036 — Stärkt rättssamhälle och äganderätt av Mats Green (M)
- Motion 2024/25:2056 — För ett tryggare Malmö och Sverige av Niels Paarup-Petersen (C)
- Motion 2024/25:2058 — Indexering av nämndemäns arvoden av Mats Wiking och Jonathan Svensson (båda S)
- Motion 2024/25:2069 — Politiskt tillsatta nämndemän av Alireza Akhondi (C)
- Motion 2024/25:2177 — Förundersökningssekretessen av Eva Lindh m.fl. (S)
- Motion 2024/25:2508 — Handläggningstiderna för olovlig andrahandsuthyrning av Ingela Nylund Watz m.fl. (S)
- Motion 2024/25:2601 — Tillsynen över Sveriges advokater av Boriana Åberg (M)
- Motion 2024/25:2605 — Störande av ordning i rättssalen av Boriana Åberg (M)
- Motion 2024/25:2618 — Åtgärder för att bekämpa mäns våld mot kvinnor av Rasmus Ling m.fl. (MP)
- Motion 2024/25:276 — Grundlagsförhör enligt dansk modell av Torsten Elofsson (KD)
- Motion 2024/25:278 — Höjd inkomstgräns för rättshjälp av Torsten Elofsson (KD)
- Motion 2024/25:2794 — Dold egendomsbevakning av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Source: The Swedish Parliament