Three weeks ago, a police officer in Stockholm was charged with raping several children, possessing thousands of files with child pornography and performing sexual acts with animals.
The man is also linked to a well-known Swedish pedophile network.
DN can now reveal that the policeman was allowed to continue working in his command function for almost three months after he was served with suspicion of child pornography offences.
It happened in December 2025, after the American organization NCMEC sounded the alarm that child abuse material was being spread via the chat app Kik. An email address that could be linked to the policeman was included in the material.
On the same day, the man was questioned and a house search was carried out. Several of his superiors were informed of the suspicions, including his immediate superior and a section manager.
Despite this, he was allowed to continue working without restrictions as duty investigation officer in the Stockholm area.
In his position, he had a supervisory function and access to the police's criminal investigations. The duties included reviewing, approving, conducting preliminary investigations, closing down and distributing incoming criminal reports.
During the period, he also handled cases of suspected sexual crimes against children, including child pornography crimes.
He was only released from work in March 2026.
In a later police interrogation, the man was asked about how the employer acted after he was informed of the suspicions.
- I have not received anything that I should not work with certain categories of crime or that I should stay away or in any way that I should not do my job, he says.
The suspicions against the policeman are extensive. According to the indictment, he has on several occasions subjected boys aged 13–15 to rape. He is also accused of having access to nearly 1,500 child pornography files, large parts of which contain "particularly wanton abuse material".
He is also accused of having performed sexual acts with dogs. The investigation includes extensive chat conversations where he discusses sexual abuse of children and animals.
The policeman is also charged with data breach. According to the investigation, he has repeatedly made unauthorized hits in the police register. He has searched for criminal investigations concerning suspected pedophiles without there having been any connections to his work. This has happened even after he himself was served with suspicion of crime. The policeman must have had a private relationship with at least one of these people.
Ola Österling, press secretary at the Police Authority, confirms to DN that the man was not dismissed from work when he was served with suspicion of crime in December 2025, but that it happened in March 2026.
According to Ola Österling, the reason was that the criminal suspicions initially only concerned child pornography crimes. Since the man also denied the crime, the Police Authority considered that there was no reason to release him from work.
- There were no concrete reasons why he should be released from work or relocated with restrictions. He was allowed to continue working in the role he had. His own account of these criminal suspicions was that he had handled visual material in the service.
When the investigation later grew to also include physical abuse against children, the Police Authority decided on immediate labor law measures.
When asked how the Police Authority views the fact that the man was allowed to continue handling cases of child pornography offences, Ola Österling replies that it is something the authority will have to look into more closely.
Have you guys messed up here in any way?
- It is not possible to comment on this at the moment. But we have been in complete agreement between the GSD (Group for Divorce and Disciplinary Matters), regular employers and SU (Department for Special Investigations) that the handling has been correct so far. We cannot preempt an investigation. We still don't know if he committed a crime, he hasn't been convicted in a court of law. All people, even police officers, deserve a fair trial.
