The police forces should not “mirror” society but “protect” it.
Officials hoping to change police entry requirements to increase diversity are facing pressure from Sweden Democrat politicians who stress that forces should not “mirror” society but “protect” it.
A new report from Sweden’s National Audit Office complains that one-fifth of female applicants to the police fail the strength test—which involves lifting a weight from the ground to the chin—and that one in three applicants with a foreign background fail the aptitude test.
