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Swedish police officer drunk on duty

A Swedish police officer faces a warning after admitting to being intoxicated while in uniform on official business.

Published: 17 March 2009 12:23 CET

The police officer, employed by Stockholm City police district, was on an official trip on the Baltic island of Gotland when the incident occurred.

He has admitted to being intoxicated while in uniform.

The matter has now been referred to the National Swedish Police Disciplinary Board (Rikspolisstyrelsens Personalansvarsnämnd) with the recommendation that the officer be served with an official warning as to his conduct.

Stockholm police authority decided that although “the offence was not slight, action over and above a warning was not required.”

The prosecutor at the Swedish National Police-related Crimes Unit (Riksenheten för polismål) decided in September 2008 not to open a criminal investigation against the officer in question and the issue was handed over to the police disciplinary body.

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Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

A Danish court on Thursday gave a two-month suspended prison sentence to a 31-year-old Swede for making a joke about a bomb at Copenhagen's airport this summer.

Published: 5 October 2023 17:11 CEST
Denmark convicts man over bomb joke at airport

In late July, Pontus Wiklund, a handball coach who was accompanying his team to an international competition, said when asked by an airport agent that
a bag of balls he was checking in contained a bomb.

“We think you must have realised that it is more than likely that if you say the word ‘bomb’ in response to what you have in your bag, it will be perceived as a threat,” the judge told Wiklund, according to broadcaster TV2, which was present at the hearing.

The airport terminal was temporarily evacuated, and the coach arrested. He later apologised on his club’s website.

“I completely lost my judgement for a short time and made a joke about something you really shouldn’t joke about, especially in that place,” he said in a statement.

According to the public prosecutor, the fact that Wiklund was joking, as his lawyer noted, did not constitute a mitigating circumstance.

“This is not something we regard with humour in the Danish legal system,” prosecutor Christian Brynning Petersen told the court.

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