[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https:\/\/globaltradefunding.com\/news\/immigrants-in-europe-2016-swedish-police-hire-immigrants-amid-growing-ethnic-diversity-in-the-country\/#ScholarlyArticle","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/globaltradefunding.com\/news\/immigrants-in-europe-2016-swedish-police-hire-immigrants-amid-growing-ethnic-diversity-in-the-country\/","headline":"Immigrants In Europe 2016: Swedish Police Hire Immigrants Amid Growing Ethnic Diversity In The Country","name":"Immigrants In Europe 2016: Swedish Police Hire Immigrants Amid Growing Ethnic Diversity In The Country","description":"The police force in Sweden wants hire a greater number of immigrants to adjust to the increasingly diverse population in the country. Law enforcement authorities are optimistic Swedes seeing more immigrants in police uniforms will give the force new \u201cstreet cred.\u201d The initiative called the World Integrated into Swedish Police Project aims to increase ethnic\u00a0diversity in every level of law","datePublished":"2016-12-20","dateModified":"2018-03-30","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/globaltradefunding.com\/news\/author\/syndicated\/#Person","name":"Syndicated","url":"https:\/\/globaltradefunding.com\/news\/author\/syndicated\/","identifier":3,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/899362aa862832b75c0d0a9a7a5a4289460381a95b120e6b6b253507647f9f87?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/899362aa862832b75c0d0a9a7a5a4289460381a95b120e6b6b253507647f9f87?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Global Trade Funding","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/globaltradefunding.com\/files\/wp-content\/uploads\/Global-Trade-Funding-Text-Logo-220x60.png","url":"https:\/\/globaltradefunding.com\/files\/wp-content\/uploads\/Global-Trade-Funding-Text-Logo-220x60.png","width":600,"height":60}},"url":"https:\/\/globaltradefunding.com\/news\/immigrants-in-europe-2016-swedish-police-hire-immigrants-amid-growing-ethnic-diversity-in-the-country\/","about":["Europe","Immigration","Middle East","Politics","Regions","Terrorism"],"wordCount":465,"articleBody":"The police force in Sweden wants hire a greater number of immigrants to adjust to the increasingly diverse population in the country. Law enforcement authorities are optimistic Swedes seeing more immigrants in police uniforms will give the force new \u201cstreet cred.\u201dThe initiative called the World Integrated into Swedish Police Project aims to increase ethnic\u00a0diversity in every level of law enforcement.“We need a lot more diversity in\u00a0the police, applying to\u00a0everything from\u00a0ethnicity to\u00a0different experiences and backgrounds,” Carin G\u00f6tblad, who leads the World Integrated into Swedish Police project, said in\u00a0a press release.Only 6 percent of Swedish police officers had an immigrant background as of Tuesday, compared to 17 percent of Swedes who are of immigrant descent nationally.Sweden\u2019s police departments had been accused of not employing enough officers, resulting in lower crime detection, local reports\u00a0said Tuesday. But the police force hopes\u00a0hiring more ethnic minorities will allow it to patrol \u201cno-go zones\u201d in Swedish cities \u2014 neighborhoods largely occupied by ethnic minorities that are riddled with unemployment and crime. Previously, Swedish law enforcement officers\u00a0shied away from entering these parts of the city because they often were greeted with people throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at them.There are reportedly 55 \u201cno-go zones\u201d in the country, RT reported Sept. 25. Because of the substantial level of abuse police experience\u00a0in these areas, an average of three Swedish officers asked to resign from the force daily. Four\u00a0of five Swedish police officers have contemplated changing their professions because of the significant risk associated with regulating these areas where patrol cars sometimes are set ablaze.In a survey asking Swedes about their confidence in the police force in November, 47 percent of respondents said they were highly confident, a Sifo poll published earlier this month indicated. But when pollsters asked Swedes the same question in March, 61 percent of respondents said they had high confidence in the police.\u201cThere have been discussions in the countryside\u00a0where people say that there are no police. There were fatal shootings in Malm\u00f6 and Gothenburg. There has been an intense debate about what the police can deliver, if they can get there, and which crimes are prosecuted,\u201d Sifo opinion polls head Toivo Sj\u00f6r\u00e9n told\u00a0reporters.Following a summer plagued by an unprecedented number of sexual harassment cases during music festivals, the region of Skane, which is a six-hour drive south of Stockholm, requested help from the Stockholm police force because they had run out of homicide detectives.The number of crimes reported in Sweden increased 2 percent in 2016 compared to last year. Through the first six months of 2016, there were 764,000 crimes reported in Sweden, including hundreds of\u00a0rapes, murders and attempted murders. Sweden\u2019s police force had a crime detection rate of 14 percent in 2016,\u00a0the lowest in 16 years."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"News","item":"https:\/\/globaltradefunding.com\/news\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Immigrants In Europe 2016: Swedish Police Hire Immigrants Amid Growing Ethnic Diversity In The Country","item":"https:\/\/globaltradefunding.com\/news\/immigrants-in-europe-2016-swedish-police-hire-immigrants-amid-growing-ethnic-diversity-in-the-country\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]