Published 11 December 2022 at 17.47
Domestic. The police are appointing a special nepotism investigator due to the recent information concerning top police management, the authority writes in a press release.
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Triangle drama on the police
- Linda Staaf: "Many men cannot cope with a woman gaining power"
- The drama of jealousy at its highest the police stop
The national police chief will assign a special investigator, Councilor Runar Viksten, to conduct a review of the Police Authority's actions in relation to current rules and procedures, according to the press release.
It was in August this year that Stoppa Pressarna revealed that deputy national police chief Mats Löfving hired his mistress Linda H Staaf as head of the police, even though she left “a lot to be desired when it comes to how suitable she is to hold her office”.
The revelation gathered momentum when Expressen's journalist Michael Syrén much later published the same information, which could now be backed up by a police report that the police's security chief Ari Stenman had made against Mats Löfving, where Stenman claimed that Löfving had committed crimes against Staaf in connection with the relationship.
According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, it was only a matter of Stenman being jealous of Löfving and the report had no merit, but with Expressen's publication, the employment of Linda H Staaf came to be scrutinized by the media again.
An earlier review by police researcher Stefan Holgersson showed that Linda Staaf likely lacked the appropriate credentials for her role as head of NOA, but that she got the job anyway. When Holgersson requested Staaf's CV, however, he was told that it was covered by confidentiality, SVT reported already in 2021.
Linda Staaf herself states that she is a lawyer and an economist and that she did civil service in two district courts before she started working as head of intelligence at NOA in 2016. It's not a particularly unusual track record for would-be police chiefs, as it's common for police chiefs not to be police officers but rather lawyers. And among the lawyers, it is far from all who are qualified or have even previously worked in the judicial system.
According to National Police Chief Anders Thornberg, the authority has now taken several measures due to the information in the media.
– For reasons of integrity or for reasons of confidentiality, we cannot give an account of the measures involved. It is therefore important that an external investigator can conduct a complete review of the handling, says Anders Thornberg in a press release.