Sweden urged to recruit police officers from Norway

Sweden urged to recruit police officers from Norway

Could these Norwegian police officers soon be fighting crime in Sweden. Photo: Gorm Kallestad / NTB ..

Could these Norwegian police officers soon be fighting crime in Sweden. Photo: Gorm Kallestad / NTB scanpix / TT

Sweden's police union has proposed recruiting police officers from neighbouring Norway in a bid to fight a shortage of officers.

"When it comes to police shortages, we should leave no stone unturned which might help increase staff numbers, and this might be one of the pieces of the puzzle," Lena Nitz, chairperson of the Swedish Police Union, told the TT newswire.

"In Norway they have more police than they plan to employ. They are newly educated, extremely motivated and in search of police work."

According to the union, more than 250 trained police officers are currently unable to find a job in Norway, despite completing three years of training and passing a professional exam.

The union wants the government to put some of these officers through a short conversion course and then employ them in Sweden.

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Young Swedes have long flocked to Norway to work in shops and cafes in the major cities of Oslo and Bergen, where the salaries are much higher. Norway has also long recruited nurses and doctors from its Nordic neighbour.

But up until now, the traffic has been largely one way.

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