A new police settlement should have been in place already last year.
However, due to problems with the police and the prosecution, the government decided to postpone the negotiations on a new, multi-year agreement for the police.
On Monday, the S-government is then ready to present its proposal for a new police settlement. Here is what you need to know about the area before the negotiations at Christiansborg start:
* What is a police settlement?
Every four years, the Folketing negotiates a police settlement, which is a political agreement. The agreement sets the framework for the work of the police and the prosecution.
The most recent police agreement was reached in 2015 between the Social Democrats, the Liberal Party, the Danish People’s Party, the Liberal Alliance and the Conservatives.
* Why was it postponed?
The current police agreement was to run from 2016 to 2019. In September 2019, however, Minister of Justice Nick Hækkerup (S) decided to postpone the negotiations until the autumn of 2020, so that the new agreement will run from 2021.
The explanation was that there were simply too many challenges in the police and with the prosecution. Therefore, more time was needed.
Before the postponement, it had emerged in Berlingske that more than 47,000 criminal cases had waited over six months to appear in court.
In addition, according to DR, the police had 800,000 overtime hours after the terrorist attacks on Krudttønden and the synagogue in Copenhagen in 2015.
* What does the government want with a new police settlement?
In recent days, the government has placed special emphasis on a new agreement to ensure the security and freedom of ordinary Danes.
This was emphasized by both Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) and the Minister of Justice at a press conference in connection with the Social Democrats’ summer group meeting last week.
Even before Monday’s presentation, several sub – elements have been mentioned in the press.
– The government will, among other things, gather eight special units, including Søik, popularly called the Bagmandspolitiet, in a new police district.
The new district may become the 13th in the country and will have 800 employees. The district has the working title National Investigation Unit and with units in Aarhus and Copenhagen must solve the most complicated crimes.
20 local police units are to be set up across the country. There is the possibility that in the individual police district it is said that the location of the new local police station is where there is one already.
The locations of the new local police stations are not yet known.
In addition, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) has already in February announced a halving of the National Police, precisely because she in turn sees the need to strengthen the close police.
In fact, it was something she already announced in her speech at the opening of the Folketing last year, shortly after her government took office.
– Today there are more than 1900 employees in the National Police. That is more than twice as many as in the entire Funen police. Many employed centrally. Instead of out with the citizens. Can’t we find a better balance ?, she said.
Sources: DR and Berlingske.
On Monday, the S-government is so ready to present its proposal for a new police settlement. Here is what you need to know about the area before the negotiations at Christiansborg start:
* What is a police settlement?
Every four years, the Folketing negotiates a police settlement, which is a political agreement. The agreement sets the framework for the work of the police and the prosecution.
The latest police agreement was reached in 2015 between the Social Democrats, the Liberal Party, the Danish People’s Party, the Liberal Alliance and the Conservatives.
* Why was it postponed?
The current police agreement was to run from 2016 to 2019. In September 2019, however, Minister of Justice Nick Hækkerup (S) decided to postpone the negotiations until the autumn of 2020, so that the new agreement will run from 2021.
The explanation was that there were simply too many challenges in the police and with the prosecution. Therefore, more time was needed.
Before the postponement, it had emerged in Berlingske that more than 47,000 criminal cases had waited over six months to appear in court.
In addition, according to DR, the police had 800,000 overtime hours after the terrorist attacks on Krudttønden and the synagogue in Copenhagen in 2015.
* What does the government want with a new police settlement?
In recent days, the government has placed special emphasis on a new agreement to ensure the security and freedom of ordinary Danes.
This was emphasized by both Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) and the Minister of Justice at a press conference in connection with the Social Democrats’ summer group meeting last week.
Even before Monday’s presentation, several sub – elements have been mentioned in the press.
– The government will, among other things, gather eight special units, including Søik, popularly called the Bagmandspolitiet, in a new police district.
The new district may become the 13th in the country and will have 800 employees. The district has the working title National Investigation Unit and with units in Aarhus and Copenhagen must solve the most complicated crimes.
20 local police units are to be set up across the country. There is the possibility that in the individual police district it is said that the location of the new local police station is where there is one already.
The locations of the new local police stations are not yet known.
In addition, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen (S) has already in February announced a halving of the National Police, precisely because she in turn sees the need to strengthen the close police.
In fact, it was something she already announced in her speech at the opening of the Folketing last year, shortly after her government took office.
– Today there are more than 1900 employees in the National Police. That is more than twice as many as in the entire Funen police. Many employed centrally. Instead of out with the citizens. Can’t we find a better balance ?, she said.
Sources: DR and Berlingske.
Source: The Nordic Page