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Data-driven overview

Statistics and oversight insights

This page gathers official data points from JO, IMY, IVO, the Schools Inspectorate and the Prosecution Authority. Hover data shows the exact metric, year and source. The case library below lets you open and read more about concrete decisions, inspections and news events across our themes.

Tap a data point for its source and explanation.

All metrics on this page are based on public sources, but they come from different oversight systems and are therefore not always directly comparable.

When you hover a data point, you see the exact value, what the metric represents and which source it comes from.

The case library below mixes decisions, inspections, research and news events to show how different authority-related problems look in practice.

Ärenden hos Särskilda åklagarkammaren

14 000

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+75% sedan 2019

Åklagarmyndigheten uppger att inflödet till Särskilda åklagarkammaren låg på cirka 14 000 ärenden under 2024.

Åklagarmyndigheten

Nyregistrerade JO-ärenden 2025

15 429

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+32% mot 2024

JO nyregistrerade 15 429 ärenden under 2025, jämfört med 11 703 under 2024. Över 99 procent inleddes med ett klagomål.

JO:s ämbetsberättelse 2025

Personuppgiftsincidenter till IMY

6 500

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+22% jämfört med 2022

IMY uppger att myndigheten tog emot 6 500 incidentanmälningar under 2024.

IMY – Årsredovisning 2024

Public oversight in figures

JO cases 2021–2025

The chart shows registered cases in four Ombudsman areas. These are complaint and oversight data, not counts of proven authority errors.

JO cases by areaPolice, social services, migration, and education
01,0002,0003,00020212022202320242025Police · 2021: 1,294Police · 2022: 1,481Police · 2023: 1,281Police · 2024: 1,334Police · 2025: 1,998Social services · 2021: 1,791Social services · 2022: 1,618Social services · 2023: 1,870Social services · 2024: 2,049Social services · 2025: 2,780Migration · 2021: 801Migration · 2022: 777Migration · 2023: 675Migration · 2024: 887Migration · 2025: 1,299Education · 2021: 453Education · 2022: 378Education · 2023: 468Education · 2024: 500Education · 2025: 777
Police Social services Migration Education

Police · 2025

1,998

Social services · 2025

2,780

Migration · 2025

1,299

Education · 2025

777

Show all values
YearPoliceSocial servicesMigrationEducation
20211,2941,791801453
20221,4811,618777378
20231,2811,870675468
20241,3342,049887500
20251,9982,7801,299777

Method: Each line follows one case area. The figures do not show how many complainants prevailed.

Source: JO annual reports

Read the 2025 JO complaints report

Police: conducted energy weapons

Police Taser use 2024-2025

The bars use SVT’s reporting of national Police Authority data and separate coercive display, firing and drive stun.

Police: complaints about on-duty violence

Suspected excessive force during police interventions

The chart shows complaints about suspected on-duty violence, based on SVT’s reporting of special prosecution statistics. It is an oversight and complaint metric, not a measure of proven crimes.

Police: special investigations

How many cases proceed?

The special investigations statistics show large inflow and a small number of cases reported to prosecutors. The grey figure is a calculated difference, not an exact measure of discontinued investigations.

Inkomna SU-ärenden 2025

9 536

Avdelningen för särskilda utredningar tog emot 9 536 ärenden under 2025.

Avslutade ärenden 2025

9 187

Polisen redovisar 9 187 avslutade SU-ärenden under 2025.

Redovisade till åklagare

254

254 ärenden redovisades till åklagare. I SU:s fall är detta enligt Polisen i regel ärenden som leder till åtal.

Avslutade utan redovisning

8 933

Enkel differens mellan avslutade ärenden och redovisade till åklagare. Måttet ska inte läsas som exakt antal nedlagda förundersökningar.

Independent confiscation

Value of seized assets with suspected criminal origin

The chart shows publicly reported values under independent confiscation. A conviction for a specific offence is not required, but whether the assets come from criminal activity must be legally tested.

Official series

Change over time

Solid lines show reported outcomes from published sources. Social services concern reports are shown separately below because the volumes are much larger and are not complaints against authorities.

The selected series use different definitions and should not be read as one combined index.
Särskilda åklagarkammaren IMY IVO Skolinspektionen

Thematic signal metrics

By theme

The bubbles show selected 2024 metrics linked to our theme pages. They are not directly comparable, but they help reveal where pressure and oversight signals are strongest.

Social services: operational volume

Concern reports and affected children over time

This is not a complaint against an authority, but an inflow metric in child-related social services cases. It is therefore separated from authority complaints, oversight and investigations.

Orosanmälningar till socialtjänsten Barn berörda av orosanmälningar

Statistics at a glance

Care orders and placements of children

Residential care includes voluntary placements under SoL and compulsory care under LVU. Emergency care orders under section 6 LVU are included in the LVU measure but require judicial review. A concern report is not the same as an investigation, placement or care order.

26,300children and young people in residential care in 2024
nearly 2 in 3received voluntary care under SoL
just over 11,000received LVU care, including emergency orders
4 reported formsfoster care, HVB, supported housing and special youth homes
All residential care and LVUChildren and young people, rounded figures
Most common placement forms in 2024A child may have had more than one placement form

Source: Socialstyrelsen, 2024 års statistik. Figures are rounded. A child may have had more than one placement form during the year, so the categories must not be added together.

Editorial investigation — documents and journalism

Editorial

Investigations behind the numbers

Statistics reveal patterns. The investigations show how methods, evidence, and state power appear in concrete cases.

Investigation20 August 2026· 22 min

Police & interventions

The police’s two feeds: public accounts, closed corps culture and misconduct that stays off-stage

Investigation of Swedish police public social media, communications spending and the PR dilemma, set against the closed Facebook group UMF and a documented case of official misconduct later absorbed into a positive local portrait.

Investigation12 July 2026· 10 min

Police & interventions

Sweden’s 2025 Ombudsman complaints: police cases rose by nearly 50 per cent

Sweden’s Parliamentary Ombudsmen registered 15,429 new cases in 2025. Police complaints rose from 1,334 to 1,998, but a complaint is not a proven error. A source-critical review of the figures, the oversight gap and JO’s actual powers.

Investigation8 June 2026· 13 min

Social services & investigations

Child care: the statistics, the Al Jazeera controversy and the case of Malin

D3 graphs of placements according to SoL and LVU, the controversy surrounding the documentary Behind Closed Doors and the Assignment Review case about Malin, whose incorrect medical record keeping followed her into the court.

Investigation8 June 2026· 14 min

Police & interventions

Police violence, reports and violence: the statistics behind the review

Special Prosecution Chamber, SU statistics, fatal police interventions and the older DN review on women violence as most common off-duty police offences.

Investigation8 June 2026· 16 min

Police & interventions

Police stun guns: stun guns, risks, TASER 7 and increasing use

Review of police stun guns: model and make, volts, what the electroshock does to the body, medical risk groups, improper use and interactive statistics on coercion, firing and driving shocks.

Investigation8 June 2026· 12 min

Police & interventions

Armatech, Defensor and the police stun guns: the supplier, the owners and former ÖB on the board

Review of the supplier ranks behind police stun guns: Armatech/AXON, Defensor Group, Flat Capital, SAFE4U and board details of former ÖB Sverker Göranson.

Investigation8 June 2026· 13 min

Police & interventions

The demands of police training: aptitude tests, lowered limits and the risk of quantity before quality

Review of the admission requirements of police training, the UNIQ aptitude test, the National Audit Office's critique, Aftonbladet's 200 seconds-alarm and new proposed requirements 2026.

Investigation8 June 2026· 15 min

Police & interventions

Independent and extended confiscation: seizure, loaned car and when authorities seize property

Examination of independent forfeiture, extended confiscation, confiscation of criminal proceeds, open cases and amounts, loaned cars taken by the Swedish Enforcement Administration and risks when seized goods disappear from the police.

Case bank

Related case studies and news

This section gathers real decisions, inspection reports and news events from our themes. Open a case to read the context, why it matters and go to the original source.

Police

SVT / Polismyndigheten

2026

Elchockvapen ökar snabbt i polisens våldsanvändning

SVT redovisar Polismyndighetens statistik som visar att elchockvapen används i tusentals fall per år. Riket ökade från 2 854 betvinganden, 767 avfyrningar och 572 drivstötar 2024 till 3 877, 1 025 och 793 under 2025.

Police

SVT / Polismyndigheten

2026

Självständigt förverkande flyttar egendomsfrågan till domstol efter beslag

SVT redovisade 221 öppna ärenden värda cirka 57 miljoner kronor efter sex månader med nya lagen. Polisen redovisade senare en fastighet i kvarstad värd 19,2 miljoner kronor och knappt 300 pågående ärenden.

Police

Defensor / Flat Capital

2025

ArmaTech och SAFE4U samlas i Defensor med Flat som huvudägare

Flat Capital investerade cirka 458 MSEK i Defensor och blev största ägare med cirka 62,5 procent. Defensor förvärvade samtidigt 70 procent av ArmaTech och SAFE4U.

Police

Polismyndigheten / RMV

2025

Dödliga ingripanden kräver två separata mått

Polisens statistik över döda vid verkanseld och Rättsmedicinalverkets bredare dödssätt polisingripande fångar inte samma sak. Det gör statistiken lätt att övertolka om måtten blandas.

Police

Åklagarmyndigheten

2025

Inflödet till polisens särskilda utredningar har ökat kraftigt

Åklagarmyndigheten beskriver en tydlig uppgång i inflödet till Särskilda åklagarkammaren: från cirka 8 000 ärenden 2019 till 14 000 under 2024.

Police

Riksrevisionen

2025

Riksrevisionen: polisantagningen är inte tillräckligt träffsäker

Riksrevisionen konstaterade att antagningen till polisutbildningen inte är effektiv och att det saknas en heltäckande arbetsanalys av vilka egenskaper och förmågor polisyrket kräver.

Privacy

IMY

2024

IMY ändrade synen på klagomål mot söktjänster med utgivningsbevis

Efter förändrad rättspraxis slog IMY fast att myndigheten kan pröva klagomål mot vissa söktjänster med utgivningsbevis, något många privatpersoner tidigare fått höra inte var möjligt.

Healthcare

IVO

2024

IVO såg fortsatta patientsäkerhetsbrister i vård och omsorg

I rapporten "Vad har IVO sett 2024?" lyfter myndigheten bland annat överbeläggningar, journalföringsbrister och svag patientinformation i flera delar av vården.

Social services

Socialstyrelsen

2024

Orosanmälningarna ökar: var tionde barn berörd men få får heldygnsvård

Socialstyrelsen rapporterar cirka 514 000 orosanmälningar 2024, 233 000 berörda barn och att ungefär hälften av anmälningarna hanteras i utredning. Heldygnsvård gällde 26 300 barn och unga.

Social services

SVT Play

2024

Uppdrag granskning: Dom tar våra barn

SVT:s granskning visar hur ryktet om att socialtjänsten "tar" muslimska barn spreds, hur LVU-kampanjen växte och hur dolda inspelningar avslöjade vilka råd som gavs i miljöer där oron förstärktes.

Social services

Sveriges Radio

2023

Syskonen blev hemmasittare – socialtjänsten ville tvångsomhänderta

Kaliber berättar om två föräldrar som sökte hjälp när deras döttrar blev hemmasittare, men i stället anklagades för omsorgsbrist och mötte hot om tvångsomhändertagande.

Healthcare

Läkartidningen

2019

Forskning visar att kränkningar i vården är vanligt förekommande

Läkartidningen sammanfattar svensk forskning som visar att cirka var femte kvinnlig patient och cirka var trettonde manlig patient någon gång upplevt sig kränkt i vården.

Police

SVT / DN

2009

Äldre granskning: kvinnomisshandel vanligaste polisbrottet utanför tjänsten

SVT återgav Dagens Nyheters granskning av åtal mot poliser 1998-2008: 48 poliser åtalades för grov kvinnofridskränkning eller misshandel av fru, sambo eller expartner.

Sources on this page are updated manually and rely on official reports, statistics portals, decisions and press releases. Where a data point comes from reporting that summarizes an annual report, this is stated in the tooltip and source text.