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Folke Bernadotte Academy (Folke Bernadotteakademin)

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NordenBladet – The Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA) (Swedish: Folke Bernadotteakademin) is the Swedish government agency for peace, security and development. FBA conducts training, research and method development in order to strengthen peacebuilding and statebuilding in conflict and post-conflict countries. The agency also recruits civilian personnel and expertise for peace operations and election observation missions led by the EU, UN and OSCE. The agency is named after Count Folke Bernadotte, the first UN mediator.

FBA is under the authority of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The agency was established in 2002 and has two offices; in Stockholm and at Sandö in Sweden. Apart from the somewhat 100 employees at the two offices, FBA has about 80 deployed employees around the world. The General-Director of FBA since 2012 is Sven-Eric Söder.

FBA works with various parts of the peace process:

– Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants
– Conflict prevention and conflict resolution
– Women, peace and security
– Leadership and political affairs
– Rule of law, human rights and election support
– Security sector reform
– Cooperation in peace operations
– Security in the field

FBA is part of Sweden’s development aid within the field of peace and security. The agency is commissioned by the Swedish government to work with the Swedish development cooperation strategies with a number of conflict affected countries and regions.

Moreover, FBA administers two Swedish government grants. The Peace Million, that finances projects that focus on peace and security, and the so called 1325 Grants for organizations working with issues concerning women, peace and security.

FBA also manages The Peace Archive, a digital archive with documentation of Sweden’s contribution to international peace operations. In addition, the international secretariat of Challenges Forum is hosted by the FBA. Challenges Forum is a worldwide network of organizations dedicated to strengthening UN peace operations.

Official website: fba.se

Swedish National Export Credits Guarantee Board (Exportkreditnämnden)

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NordenBladet – Swedish National Export Credits Guarantee Board (Swedish: Exportkreditnämnden, EKN) is a Swedish government agency that answers to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The agency is located in Stockholm.

Its aim is to promote Swedish exports by issuing guarantees, functioning as insurances, by which the Government of Sweden assumes certain risks. The customers include export companies and banks.

About EKN
EKN, The Swedish Export Credit Agency, is an authority with the task of promoting Swedish exports. We do this by insuring the risk of not being paid in export transactions.

We also insure banks’ lending to both exporting companies and their buyers.

EKN’s guarantees make difficult markets available and enable more secure export transactions. We work with the big global companies as well as the very small ones, and guarantee their export business to over 130 countries.

Long-term guarantor for Swedish exports
EKN was established already in 1933 and has since been a complement to the private export credit insurance market. We have a worldwide network of banks, companies and other countries’ export credit agencies. We also work closely with other export promotion organisations in Sweden.
EKN’s commitment is on behalf of the Swedish state

EKN is funded with the guarantee holders’ premiums that reflect the risk in the transaction. The activities shall be financially self-sustaining over time.

Framework
The government appoints EKN’s Board and Director General. The Minister of Trade is responsible for EKN in the government. EKN’s mandate and mission are governed by regulations. The activities must follow instructions from the government, as stated in the annual letter appropriation.

What they do?
EKN is commissioned by the government to promote Swedish exports and the internationalisation of Swedish companies. We do so by insuring export companies and banks against the risk of non-payment in export transactions, thereby enabling them to conduct more secure export transactions. Our activities are financed by the guarantee holders’ premiums.

We make difficult markets accessible and export transactions possible. Our activities encompass export transactions in 120 different countries, and the companies we help range from small companies to large groups. EKN has existed since 1933, and has a broad network which includes banks, EKN’s counterparts in other countries and other export-promoting organisations.

Business relationships with companies and banks
The nature of our commission means we are both a business partner and a government authority. EKN’s decision to provide a guarantee is based on our businesslike assessment of the risk.

EKN’s commitments are also the Swedish state’s
The premium paid by guarantee holders reflects the risk in the transaction and represents EKN’s provision for loss. In the course of our business we have established a strong financial position, which means we are able to honour our commitments and expand our activities using our own resources. There have been periods in EKN’s history when our reserves did not cover the costs of loss. In these situations, EKN has an unlimited borrowing facility with the Swedish National Debt Office.

Official website: ekn.se

Visiting address: Kungsgatan 36

P.O. Box 3064
SE-103 61 Stockholm
Telephone: +46 8-788 00 00
E-mail: info@ekn.se

Swedish Market Court (Marknadsdomstolen)

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NordenBladet – The Swedish Market Court (Swedish: Marknadsdomstolen) is a Swedish government agency that answers to the Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality. It is located in Stockholm.

The Market Court is a specialized court that tries cases related to the Swedish Competition Act as well as cases involving the Swedish Marketing Act and other consumer and marketing legislation.

Website: avgoranden.domstol.se/marknadsdomstolen (in Swedish)

Prosecutor-General of Sweden (Riksåklagaren) + LIST of Prosecutor-Generals

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NordenBladet – The Prosecutor-General of Sweden (Swedish: Riksåklagaren) is the department head for the Swedish Prosecution Authority responsible for the daily operations, the highest-ranked prosecutor in the country, and the only public prosecutor in the Supreme Court.

The Office of the Prosecutor-General (Swedish: Riksåklagarens kansli) is responsible for legal development, the agency’s operations in the Supreme Court, and administrative tasks. The Legal Department of the Prosecutor-General (Swedish: Rättsavdelningen) has an overall responsibility for the operations in the Supreme Court and key international issues. The office was established in 1948, when the Chancellor of Justice’s task as chief prosecutor was transferred to the Prosecutor-General.

The Prosecutor-General is organized under the Ministry of Justice and appointed by the Government, though without belonging to the spoils system, and can only be dismissed under special circumstances described in the Letters Patent Act, with support from the Swedish National Disciplinary Offence Board (Swedish: Statens ansvarsnämnd).

List of Prosecutor-Generals
There have been eight Prosecutor-Generals in Sweden, since the office was created in 1948.

Maths Heuman, 1948–1960
Emanuel Walberg, 1960–1966
Holger Romander, 1966–1978
Magnus Sjöberg, 1978–1989
Torsten Jonsson, 1989–1994
Klas Bergenstrand, 1994–2004
Fredrik Wersäll, 2004–2008
Anders Perklev, 2008–present

Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Kriminalvården)

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NordenBladet – Swedish Prison and Probation Service (Swedish: Kriminalvården) is a Government agency that is part of the Swedish judicial system, tasked with incarcerating suspects during pre-trial and trial and convicts after sentencing. The Main Office of the agency is located in Norrköping.

The agency also handles deportations of individuals not allowed in the country.

Change and custody
The main tasks of the Prison and Probation Service are to implement prison and probation sentences, to supervise conditionally released persons, to implement instructions for community service, and to carry out pre-sentence investigations in criminal cases.

The Prison and Probation Service is also responsible for remand prisons and the transport service. Our vision is that spending time in the prison and probation system will bring about change, not simply provide secure custody. We want to encourage our clients to live a better life after serving their sentence.

A basic concept in the Swedish sanctions system is to avoid imprisonment when possible.

Imprisonment complicates the transition to a life of freedom and does not counter-act recidivism. That is why there are more people on probation than in prison in the Swedish Prison and Probation Service.

Our non-custodial clients number about 14,000 per day, compared with just over 4,500 prisoners per day.

Probation
Probation is the most common non-custodial sanction and places the convicted person under supervision, normally for one year. There is also a trial period of three years. Serious breaches of probation can lead to the sentence being served in prison instead. Probation can also be combined with a shorter prison sentence or a fine.

The Probation Service
The Probation Service is aimed primarily at the supervision of persons conditionally released on probation, with or without contract treatment/community service; intensive supervision with electronic monitoring; work at remand centres and prisons and preparing client social reports.

A client sentenced to probation or who has been released from prison on probation is assigned a supervising probation officer. The probation officer can be a part of the probation system or a layman. Each client has a special schedule for the probation period, regulating how often he or she meets the probation officer.

Official website: kriminalvarden.se

Klas Friberg appointed new Head of the Swedish Security Service

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NordenBladet – The Swedish Government has appointed Klas Friberg, formerly Chief Commissioner of Police Region West, as new Director General and Head of the Swedish Security Service. Mr Friberg assumes this post on 1 March 2018.

“It is exciting, challenging and inspiring to come to an organisation responsible for protecting our democracy. In my police career, I have been in close contact with the Security Service on a number of occasions and I have also had the opportunity to meet with Security Service staff who I view as very committed and knowledgeable in their field”, says Klas Friberg.

He also mentions that there are numerous challenges associated with the current security situation in Sweden, with growing extremist environments and increasing intelligence activities carried out by foreign powers against our country. In this context, ensuring the security of the parliamentary election later this year will require considerable efforts.

“Cooperation with the Swedish Police is important when it comes to building a more secure Sweden. There are areas in which our cooperation could improve and develop, and this is also true for other authorities”, says Friberg.

“I am happy to appoint Klas Friberg as new Head of the Swedish Security Service. Klas Friberg has extensive experience from his work for the Swedish Police, for instance as Head of the National Bureau of Investigation and, more recently, his excellent performance as Chief Commissioner for Police Region West”, said Morgan Johansson, Minister for Justice and Home Affairs, during a press conference on 28 February.

Klas Friberg has worked for the Swedish Police for more than 27 years. In 2002, he was appointed Chief Commissioner of the County Police in Västra Götaland County. A few years later, he assumed the post of Head of the County Criminal Investigation Department in Västra Götaland County. In December 2010, he was appointed Head of the Swedish National Bureau of Investigation and, after that, he assumed the post of County Police Commissioner of the Västra Götaland County Police. Between January 2015 and February 2018, he held the post of Chief Commissioner for Police Region West.

Klas Friberg assumes the post of Director General and Head of the Swedish Security Service on 1 March 2018, succeeding Anders Thornberg who was recently appointed National Police Commissioner.

Source: sakerhetspolisen.se

Swedish Security Service (Säkerhetspolisen)

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NordenBladet – The Swedish Security Service (Swedish: Säkerhetspolisen, abbreviated Säpo, until 1989 Rikspolisstyrelsens säkerhetsavdelning abbreviated RPS/Säk) is a Swedish government agency organised under the Ministry of Justice. It operates like a security agency responsible for counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, the protection of dignitaries and the constitution.

The Swedish Security Service is also tasked with investigating crimes against national security and terrorist crimes. Its main mission, however, is to prevent crime, and not to investigate them. Crime prevention is to a large extent based on information acquired via contacts with the regular police force, other authorities and organisations, foreign intelligence and security services, and with the use of various intelligence gathering activities, including interrogations, telephone tapping, covert listening devices and hidden surveillance cameras. The Service was, in its present form, founded in 1989, as part of the National Police Board and became an autonomous police agency January 1, 2015. National headquarters are located at Bolstomtavägen in south-east Solna since 2014, drawing together personnel from five different locations into a single 30,000 m2 (320,000 sq ft) HQ facility.

Areas of responsibility
The Swedish Security Service’s main tasks and responsibilities are:

Counter-espionage – preventing and detecting espionage and other unlawful intelligence activities; targeting Sweden, its national interests abroad, and also foreign interests and refugees within the borders of Sweden.
Counter-subversion – to counter illegal subversive activities (e.g. violence, threats and harassment targeting elected representatives, public officials and journalists) intended to affect policy-making and implementation, or prevent citizens from exercising their constitutional rights and freedoms.
Counter-terrorism – preventing and detecting terrorism; this includes acts of terrorism directed against Sweden or foreign interests within the borders of Sweden, as well as terrorism in other countries and the financing and support of terrorist organisations in Sweden.
Dignitary protection – providing security and close protection officers at state visits, to senior public officials (e.g. the Speaker of the Riksdag, Prime Minister, members of the Riksdag and the Government, including State Secretaries and the Cabinet Secretary), the Royal Family, foreign diplomatic representatives, etc. As of 2014, the Service had 130 close protection officers.
Protective security – providing advice, analysis and oversight to companies and government agencies of importance to national security, in addition to background checks.

Organisation
The Swedish Security Service became a separate agency January 1, 2015, and is directly organised under the Ministry of Justice. Similar to other government agencies in Sweden, it is essentially autonomous. Under the 1974 Instrument of Government, neither the Government nor individual ministers have the right to influence how an agency decide in a particular case or on the application of legislation. This also applies to the Security Service, which instead is governed by general policy instruments. What sets the Security Service apart from other agencies is that most directives guiding the Service are classified on the grounds of national security, along with the bulk of the reports it produces. The Service is led by a Director-General, Anders Thornberg, who is titled Head of the Swedish Security Service. Operations are led by a Chief Operating Officer, reporting directly the Head of the Security Service. He is in turn assisted by a Deputy Chief Operating Officer and an Office for Operations. The Service is organised into four departments and a secretariat, each led by a Head of Department.

Official website: sakerhetspolisen.se

Swedish Police Authority (Polismyndigheten)

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NordenBladet – The Swedish Police Authority (Swedish: Polismyndigheten) is the central administrative authority for the police in Sweden, responsible for law enforcement, general social order and public safety within the country.

The agency is headed by the National Police Commissioner, who is appointed by the Government and has the sole responsibility for all activities of the police. Although formally organised under the Ministry of Justice, the Swedish police is—similar to other authorities in Sweden—essentially autonomous, in accordance with the constitution. The agency is governed by general policy instruments and is subject to a number of sanctions and oversight functions, to ensure that the exercise of public authority is in compliance with regulations. Police officers typically wear a dark-blue uniform consisting of combat style trousers with a police duty belt, a polo shirt or a long sleeve button shirt, and a side-cap embellished with a metal cap badge. The standard equipment includes a handgun, pepper spray and an extendable baton.

The first modern police force in Sweden was established in the mid-19th century, and the police remained in effect under local government control up until 1965, when it was nationalized and became increasingly centralized, to finally organize under one authority January 1, 2015. Concurrent with this change, the Swedish Security Service formed its own agency. The new authority was created to address shortcomings in the division of duties and responsibilities, and to make it easier for the Government to demand greater accountability. The agency is organized into seven police regions and eight national departments. It is one of the largest government agencies in Sweden, with more than 28,500 employees, of which police officers accounted for approximately 75 percent of the personnel in 2014. It takes two and a half years to become a police officer in Sweden, including six months of paid workplace practice. Approximately a third of all police students are women, and in 2011 women accounted for 40 percent of all employees.

Official website: polisen.se

Swedish National Courts Administration (Domstolsverket)

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NordenBladet – The Swedish National Courts Administration (SNCA) (Swedish: Domstolsverket) is a Swedish administrative authority organized under the Ministry of Justice. It functions as a service organisation for the Swedish courts, including the general courts, the general administrative courts and a number of special courts.

The SNCA does not hold any powers over these courts. It acts purely as an umbrella organization to provide economy of scale for service, and is responsible for the overall coordination of the courts. It also deals with common issues in the Judiciary of Sweden; such as personnel development, education and information, the preparation of regulations, advice and instructions, and the dissemination of information to citizens.

History and organisation
The Swedish National Courts Administration was established in 1975 in Jönköping, and is headed by Director-General Martin Holmgren. It is organized into eight departments: Finance Department, Human Resources Department, Development Department, IT Department, Security Department, Communications Department, Administrative Department and Legal Department plus an Internal Audit Office.

Introducing the Swedish courts
Shortcuts to common matters:

Apply for divorce

The Migration Court

Trials in criminal cases

Press contacts

How can the courts help me?
The courts can provide general information of a rather formal nature. For instance, we can explain how you should complete a summons application and generally describe how legal proceedings are handled.

The courts provide information about cases and matters if a request is so clearly specified that it is easy for us to find the information. If special research is required to find it, the person who wishes to have the information must usually look in the archives her/himself.

What the courts do not do
The courts do not give legal advice. You should refer to an advokat office (attorney’s office) if you wish to have, for instance, advice on how proceedings should be dealt with from the legal perspective.

As it is important that the courts are objective and impartial, we do not provide information about how legal rules should be applied in an individual case.

Principle of public access to information
The principle of public access means that the general public and the media are guaranteed insight into the activities of central government and the municipal authorities.

This means that:

– everyone – Swedish and foreign citizens alike – are entitled to read the authorities’ public documents to the extent the documents are not classified (secret).
– officials and other people who work for central government or the municipal authorities have the right to tell outside parties what they know to the extent they are not limited by any confidentiality obligation.
– officials also have special freedom to provide information to the media.
– court proceedings are open to the public.

What is an official document?
A document is official if it is held by a public authority and, according to special rules, is considered to have been received or drawn up there. The document may be an ordinary paper document, or it may just as well be a written or pictorial matter or recording which can only be read, listened to or otherwise comprehended using technical aids.

Official website: domstol.se

Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet)

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NordenBladet – The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Swedish: Brottsförebyggande rådet, abbreviated Brå) is a Swedish government agency organized under the Ministry of Justice, and acts as a center for research and development within the judicial system.

Brå primarily works to reduce crime and improve levels of safety in society by producing data and disseminating knowledge on crime and crime prevention work. The Council also produces Sweden’s official crime statistics, evaluates reforms, conducts research to develop new knowledge and provides support to local crime prevention work. The results of Brå’s work are a basis for decision makers within the judicial system, the Riksdag and the Government. Brå often works in collaboration with other organizations and public sector agencies.

About Brå
The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brottsförebyggande rådet or Brå for short) is a knowledge centre for the criminal justice system.

Brå is an agency under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice and a knowledge centre for the criminal justice system. The agency’s mandate is to contribute to the development of knowledge within the criminal justice system and the criminal policy area, as well as to promote crime prevention work.

Brå is responsible for the official criminal statistics and other statistics, which includes producing, following, analysing, and reporting on criminality and the criminal justice system’s responses to crime. For that purpose, Brå generates statistics which are based on large-scale surveys and other special data collection.

As an equally central task, Brå initiates and conducts research and development work which provides the agencies of the criminal justice system with a suitable basis for measures and prioritisations, as well as regularly assists the Government with criminal policy issues. The agency follows and analyses criminality and societal reactions to crime, and develops new sources of knowledge in the area. In addition, Brå assists the agencies of the criminal justice system by providing support which contributes to the development and improved efficiency of their activities.

Brå’s mandate also includes developing national support and coordination for local crime prevention work. The need for high quality entails close contacts with universities and other institutions of higher learning, and the obligation to respond to the criminal justice system’s need for methodology development and knowledge development requires a close and trusting collaboration.

Brå has been in existence since 1974 and is lead by its Director General, Erik Wennerström.

Source: Brå (The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention)

Official website: bra.se

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