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In contrast to this example of abuse of power I'd like to link to an article in a Swedish tabloid which was published today:

http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/jan-fick-se-polisens-spaning...

In short it tells the story of s man suddenly receiving police-related messages in a chat program which clearly were not intended for him. As it turned out, a police office had mistakenly added his phone number to the distribution list.

This is how the police officer reacted when confronted with this mistake: '– Oj, oj, oj...vad ska jag säga. Det är naturligtvis djupt olyckligt att de här uppgifterna kommit ut den här vägen. Jag beklagar det verkligen. Det var jag som skrev ett felaktigt mobilnummer och får ta på mig ansvaret för det (...).'

Translated to English: '- Oh, oh, oh... what shall I say. It is of course very unfortunate that these data became public this way. I'm truly sorry. It was me who entered a wrong telephone number and I'll have to take responsibility for this'

While it is in my opinion less than commendable for the police to use this specific chat program (which is known to be as leaky as a rusty bucket) and rather careless to enter a phone number without checking whether the messages actually reach the intended recipient, this police officer does not try to hide his involvement. He takes responsibility for his fault.



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