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Swedish cop warned for job rants on Facebook

A policeman in western Stockholm who mocked his job and shared his opinions with 200 friends on Facebook has received a warning about his behaviour from his employer.

Swedish cop warned for job rants on Facebook

Among his public Facebook revelations, the policeman at Västerort police admitted to drinking seized Bacardi at the station, Metro reported on Monday.

Other admissions included “tearing my hair out over people’s damn applications for restraining orders” and “did a legendary cracking of an old woman thief. An interrogation without tears is no interrogation.”

In the end, one of the policeman’s friends notified police about the man’s disclosures. The policeman’s fate is currently in the hands of the National Police Disciplinary Board (Rikspolisstyrelsens Personalansvarsnämnd).

The Stockholm police force now intend to serve the man with an official warning over his conduct, according to the newspaper after prosecutor’s decided in the summer to hand over the case for disciplinary action.

The policeman in response to news said that he intended to make “drastic changes” to his Facebook reports and “purge his friends list.”

Further revelations by Metro include that the officer detailed telling off a named pop star and receiving a poor evaluation after arresting a shoplifting child, which he took as a “compliment,” as well as what he thought of his job and his boss.

He also spoke of “grabbing a pâté sandwich and watching the caseload pile up to see who to mess with today” and “thinking of first taking the best preliminary investigation and running it through the paper shredder and sending it to the prosecution office.”

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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.

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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