Police officers are forced to use their own mobiles in the service – Computer Sweden

When Uppsala police is out on alarm is a mobile per bumper car sharing. But often, these are for old mobiles that are unable to send images, for example.

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– I recently had a drugged person crashed with a car in Uppsala and run away from the scene. A colleague had seen him and I found the one person in town who I suspect was the one who slipped, according to a police officer for Uppsala Nya Tidning, UNT.

– To check if I grabbed the right person, I had to take a picture of him to send to the colleague who had seen him. But service phone was so old that it had not even camera, so I had to use my private phone.

Uppsala police chief safety officer Peter Lindberg is critical that they are forced to use own mobiles and suggest that they then forced to relinquish it if a journalist example, to partake of images taken in the service.
 The police tell me they pointed out the problem of lead in several years.

According to Deputy Head order department Andrew Tomkinson, it cost 250 000 that is the problem.

– I agree with that all police officers should have their service phone but we must conserve resources, he says, referring to the Uppsala Police are already 3.9 million back.

And the provincial police chief says in an email regarding the number of phones that he thinks Uppsala police “currently has found a reasonable balance in this respect but it continues a discussion on the issue. “

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At the same time, writes UNT, has police management in Uppsala during a ten month period had seven conferences for a total of 263 000 out of castles and manor houses .

– This feels quite offensive, especially as there is a large conference room at the police station in Uppsala, which may equally well be used, said a police officer.

County Police Erik Steen do not agree with, but writes in his email that he thinks it is reasonable balance between cost and benefit of sometimes having conferences outside the police station.