Criticism of Sweden's border controls Worse than before known

It is in September that the report was noted for the first time. Then everything was criticized, from staffing and working methods to educating people working on border controls.

The situation in Arlanda has been described as the worst. It was discovered that border controls did not use the risk indicators developed to detect returning jihadists.

"The report shows what we already knew, namely that we cleaned the company Kalle Anka," said a source who worked at the border police in Stockholm for several years.

Now Swedish radio tells us that Sweden's criticism is even more severe than what is known in the ambitious report of the European Commission. At present, the EU calls for urgent action to deal with what is called "backlogs and gaps".

Among other things, the structure and unity of the police, the Migration Board, the way customs works and the coast guard are lacking. Sweden is also accused of having violated the Schengen Agreement in several ways, for example by not meeting the requirements of knowledge and education.

Was reported in 2011 – has not been solved

Sweden also gets the lowest ratings in terms of access to databases for which staff will search, writes Swedish radio – a problem that was reported in 2011 and which is still subject to criticism .

In addition, border controllers have stalls that give them a sufficient appearance and give too much information from the outside – and sparkling phones.

"Of course, it is extremely disturbing and serious that we do not meet the requirements of Schengen, but the direction for us is of course quite clear.It is clear that Sweden will meet the Schengen requirements for border control. "said Patrik Engström, head of the border police at Swedish radio.

Patrik Engström believes that Sweden has favored border controls since 2000. He also explains on Swedish radio that the problems are due to five areas: organization, resources, skills, technological support and risk analysis work.

"We are going to attack and correct the five problems," says Patrik Engström on Swedish radio.

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