{"id":9373,"date":"2023-09-29T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T13:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/29\/swedens-prime-minister-summons-police-and-army-chiefs-as-gang-violence-surges\/"},"modified":"2023-09-29T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T13:51:24","slug":"swedens-prime-minister-summons-police-and-army-chiefs-as-gang-violence-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/29\/swedens-prime-minister-summons-police-and-army-chiefs-as-gang-violence-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden\u2019s prime minister summons police and army chiefs, as gang violence surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Sweden\u2019s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he will meet the national army and police chiefs on Friday to combat a surge in gang violence, as the country reels from record shooting deaths this month.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cTomorrow I will meet the national police chief and the commander in chief to see how the defense force can help the police in their work against the criminal gangs,\u201d Kristersson said in an address to the nation on Thursday.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cI hope all parties in the Swedish parliament can come together in support of those strong and pattern-breaking actions that need to be taken.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The Scandinavian nation has been rocked by a record number of shootings this month, amid a spread of gang violence from larger urban areas to smaller towns, Reuters reported.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      There were 11 gun killings in September, making it the deadliest month since December 2019. Police said about 30,000 people in Sweden are directly involved with or have links to gang crime, according to the news agency.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Children and innocent people are affected by the serious violence, Kristersson added.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cI can\u2019t emphasize enough how serious the situation is. Sweden has never seen anything like it, no other country in Europe is experiencing anything like this,\u201d the Swedish prime minister said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cWe will hunt the gangs, and we will defeat the gangs. We will take them to court. If they\u2019re Swedish citizens they will be locked up for a long time in prison and if they are foreign citizens, they will also be expelled.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden\u2019s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said he will meet the national army and police chiefs on Friday to combat a surge in gang violence, as the country reels from record shooting deaths this month. \u201cTomorrow I will meet the national police chief and the commander in chief to see how the defense force can help <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}