Naked Swedish police officer apprehends fugitive while visiting sauna

[crazytown]

Naked Swedish police officer apprehends fugitive while visiting sauna

An off-duty Swedish police officer successfully arrested a violent fugitive drug dealer while both men were naked in a Stockholm sauna, public broadcaster SVT has reported.

The unnamed officer had just sat down when he spotted the wanted man, who had been on the run since receiving a prison sentence for assorted drugs offences and aggravated assault against a public official.

“He never showed up to serve his sentence, so was naturally on a wanted list,” said Christoffer Bohman, deputy chief of police in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby. “This officer was off duty, and by coincidence – and somewhat comically – both men recognised each other in the sauna.” (snip)

“It’s obviously much easier to act when you have colleagues with you, plus all the right tools and equipment,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/01/swedish-police-officer-apprehends-fugitive-while-visiting-sauna

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. What gave him away? NT

[crazytown]

2. The long and the short of it

bare bones policing.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Was the officer debriefed following the arrest? NT

[crazytown]

4. That's a hairy one,

He had his hands full.

[Major Nikon]

6. He couldn't bare it any longer and confessed

[crazytown]

8. He'd had it up to here :)

[Aristus]

5. *snicker* "All the right tools and equipment"...

[tblue37]

7. Heh heh heh. He said "tools and equipment." ( /Beavis & Butthead")

[crazytown]

9. Oh no. You've ruined the joke.nt

[Aristus]

10. Great minds and all that...

[louis-t]

11. I wonder if that's a typical LEO anxiety dream?

[UTUSN]

12. How many plays on "hot" in the whole article?!1

*******QUOTE***** (just an excerpt: )

.... Bohman praised the officer for his calm response to what could otherwise have become a particularly heated confrontation, saying the arrest was effected in a thoroughly professional and undramatic manner.

“It’s obviously much easier to act when you have colleagues with you, plus all the right tools and equipment,” he said. “This was about as stripped-back and bare-bones an arrest as it is possible to make, in several senses of the term.”

Bohman also paid tribute to the officer in a Facebook post, describing him as a “top colleague who kept a cool head even when things were hotting up... ....

*********UNQUOTE******

[ProudLib72]

13. Guess the fugitive quickly realized the cop had the balls to make the arrest in the sauna

[crazytown]

14. He had the wood on him nt

[ProudLib72]

15. I still believe it was mighty cheeky of the cop

to crack the case in a sauna.

[Fla Dem]

16. Officer didn't sweat the small stuff.

Captured the guy without the necessary equipment.

[SwissTony]

17. Swedish cops seem to not need a uniform...