Police stop investigation of minor fraud

In Stockholm received between 100 and 150 fraud cases every day.

Now, will the majority never investigated.

Cases of less than 5 000 kronor must normally not be handled until the new year, according to the new guidelines, said the Echo.

The new guidelines, stated to apply in a few weeks, until the new year. Then Police do not generally investigate the fraud cases of less than 5 000 kronor.

Hundreds of cases a day

the Cause is to be lack of resources, according to Swedish radio's Ekot.

Every day received hundreds of new fraud cases just in Stockholm, and matters that the ceo-fraud, subscriptions, romansbedrägerier and foreign investeringsbedrägerier are among the categories that will most likely not be investigated.

The new guidelines, to be confirmed by Jessika Nilsson, head of Poker bedrägerisektionen. They should have developed already in October and may be extended even after the new year.

" It was because we had a harsh location with a small resource and a inflow had increased 15 percent compared with last year. So we had to deal with it here to make it best for the plaintiff, but at the same time have a good working environment. So this is a way to handle it simply. And so, we work actively in these cases also.

Echo: But is active in them, you are saying, it is written here: ”given without measure”?

" Yes, exactly. It means at the moment. But they are still open and will be investigated in due course of time, " says Jessika Nilsson, head of the bedrägerisektionen at the Police.