Resistance and decisive action – a national strategy against organised crime Comm. 2023/24:67

Organised crime threatens society and its functions. The capacity for violence, the financial structures and the parallel social structures that organised crime actors have built up in Sweden have both a direct and indirect impact on people’s sense of security and their safety, and on vital functions of society. Society’s resistance must be fundamentally strengthened. To this end, the Swedish Parliament and the Government have prioritised measures to combat organised crime in the state budget. The national strategy aims to give this work a clearer direction, and to reduce the vulnerabilities exploited by actors in organised crime. The strategy describes the problems in detail, provides guidelines for measures, and outlines the most important current and planned work in this area. The needs are extensive and concerns a range of policy areas. Five strategic objectives are to guide this work: stop criminal careers, reduce the supply of illegal firearms and explosives, destroy the criminal economy, build robustness against unlawful and undue influence, and safeguard systems for reliable identification and an efficient provision of information. 

Organised crime must be fought with the full collective force of society. Deeper cooperation between government agencies, municipalities, regions, the business community and civil society is therefore important. The cross-border nature of organised crime also means that it must be fought in cooperation with other states.