Dan Eliasson

Dan Tore Eliasson (born 14 August 1961 in Sundsvall) is a Swedish lawyer and civil servant. He was appointed National Police Commissioner by the Minister for Home Affairs in November 2014 and began serving on 1 January 2015. Eliasson is a graduate of law at Uppsala University and had prior to his appointment served as director-general of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency. He has also served as ambassador and Chief of International Affairs at the Ministry of Justice in 1999–2001, State Secretary under the Minister for Justice Thomas Bodström in 2001–2006, acting head of the Swedish Security Service in 2006 and the Director-General of the Swedish Migration Agency 2007–2011.[1][2][3]

In 2014 Eliasson was head of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Swedish: Försäkringskassan). As head of the agency he ordered the article about himself on Swedish Wikipedia to be edited by agency staff to remove criticism.[4]

In September 2015, during the ongoing European migration crisis, Eliasson, being the chief of police, blocked attempts by Swedish regional police and customs authorities to erect border controls. Consequently, the cabinet ministers received no request from police to organise border checks.[5] The controls were ordered in November 2016 by the cabinet.[5]

On or about 27 January 2016, Eliasson sparked controversy in Sweden and beyond by appearing to sympathize with a Somalian "teenage" asylum-seeker accused of having murdered social worker Alexandra Mezher in Mölndal, a suburban community near Gothenburg (Göteborg).[6][7] Later, it emerged that the killer was not under 18 and possibly not even a teenager, but had lied about his age in order to receive favourable treatment when claiming asylum.[8]

In June 2016 Eliasson led a campaign to hand out armband saying "don't grope" to curb groping and sexual assaults, like those at the 2014 and 2015 We Are Sthlm sexual assaults.[9] The armbands were criticised as being ineffectual and that they laid the responsibility for stopping the assaults on the victims instead of the perpetrators.[9]

In December 2016, Sifo conducted a poll on public opinion on how Dan Eliasson performs as chief of police where 50% stated a negative or very negative view and 11% stated a positive or very positive view.[10]

According to police reports commented upon by Eliasson in June 2015, high crime rate areas numbered 15 in 2015 and 23 in 2017.[11] In October 2017 Eliasson was interviewed by SR Ekot where he was queried about his promise in May 2015[12] to regain control in areas of Sweden with high crime rates. Instead of regaining control, he admitted that the number of such areas had increased.[13] He stated that two years earlier he had not predicted police resources would be saturated by migration, gang shootings, serious crime and terrorism to the degree that was the case.[13] The reason for this inaccurate prediction was that policy makers including himself had not realised the full extent of the problems because they did not fit in the popular image of Sweden as a safe and prosperous country.[13]

Dan Eliasson is also known for his history in the punk scene with his band Bad Boo Band. The band's biggest hit was a 1979 7-inch single called "Knulla i Bangkok" (Fuck In Bangkok).[14]

On January 31, 2018 it was announced that Eliasson would step down as Police Commissioner.[15]

Eliasson is as of 2018 the highest paid civil servant in Sweden with a monthly salary of 160000 SEK (20000 $).

References

  1. ↑ "Sweden designates new Police commissioner". Sveriges Radio. 20 November 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  2. ↑ "Ett oemotståndligt uppdrag". Swedish Police Authority. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Dalabördig ny rikspolischef". Dalarnas Tidningar (in Swedish). TT. 2014-11-20. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Myndigheter censurerar Wikipediatexter". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 31 August 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Upprättandet av tillfälliga gränskontroller vid inre gräns RIR 2016:26, page 9" (PDF). riksrevisionen. Swedish National Audit Office. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Police chief sparks anger by sympathising with 'killer Somali boy'". Mail Online. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  7. ↑ "EXCLUSIVE - The Swedish town destroyed by migration". Mail Online. Retrieved 2016-01-30.
  8. ↑ "'Child' migrant who killed asylum centre worker is an adult, Swedish migration rules". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  9. 1 2 Middleton, Rachel (2016-06-29). "Plans to hand out anti-groping armbands by Sweden police comes under fire". International Business Times UK. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
  10. ↑ "opinion.se - Polisens förtroende". opinion.se (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 30 December 2017. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
  11. ↑ "Rapport om utsatta områden presenteras - Nyheter (Ekot)". Dagens Eko (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  12. ↑ "Dan Eliasson, bovarnas skräck? - Ekots lördagsintervju". Dagens Eko (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  13. 1 2 3 "Fler utsatta områden trots Dan Eliassons löfte om motsatsen - Nyheter (Ekot)". Dagens Eko. Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  14. ↑ "'Dan Eliasson om låten Knulla i Bangkok" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 22 November 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
  15. ↑ "Rikspolischefen Dan Eliasson avgår". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). 2018-01-31. Retrieved 2018-02-04.

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Civic offices
Preceded by
Janna Valik		 Director-General of the Swedish Migration Agency
2007–2011		 Succeeded by
Christina Werner
Preceded by
Adriana Lender		 Director-General of the Swedish Social Insurance Agency
2011–2014		 Succeeded by
Ann Persson Grivas
Preceded by
Bengt Svenson		 National Police Commissioner
2015–2018		 Succeeded by
Anders Thornberg
Preceded by
Helena Lindberg		 Director-General of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency
2018–present		 Incumbent
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