Police organisation
Polismyndigheten
A single national police authority for Sweden, organised into seven police regions, twenty-five police districts and ninety-five local police districts.
At a glance
- Official name
- Polismyndigheten
- Commonly rendered in English as
- Swedish Police Authority — a rendering in common use, not the organisation’s own name.
- System
- Sweden
- Level of government
- National
- Kind of body
- National police force
- Status
- Currently operating
- Official website
- https://polisen.se/ — confirmed against the organisation’s own pages on 26 July 2026.
- Facts last checked against sources
- 13 September 2026
What it is
The Swedish police are one authority, not a federation of regional ones: the regions and districts are internal subdivisions. Alongside the Office of the National Police Commissioner sits a Department of Special Investigations, which investigates complaints against police officials, prosecutors, judges and members of Parliament on the direction of the Special Prosecution Office — a body inside the authority whose independence comes from who directs it rather than from where it sits.
What it covers
The whole of Sweden, through seven police regions and the districts beneath them.
Broad responsibilities
- Policing across Sweden through the regions and districts
- Investigation of complaints against police officials and certain other officers, through the Department of Special Investigations, on the direction of the Special Prosecution Office
Elsewhere on this site
- Polismuseet — the museum, archive or collection that holds this organisation’s history
- Who polices what — how Sweden is structured, against other systems
Where this connects
Institutions: National police.
Sources
Polismyndigheten (Swedish Police Authority) · Government publication · link verified 2026-07-26
The Swedish Police Authority's own English page, read directly and re-confirmed. Supports that the police are a single national authority comprising "7 Police Regions", "25 Police Districts" and "95 Local Police Districts", the Office of the National Police Commissioner, and a Department of Special Investigations; that it is "led by National Police Commissioner Petra Lundh"; and that the Department of Special Investigations investigates, on the direction of the Special Prosecution Office, complaints against police officials, prosecutors, judges and members of Parliament. The single-national-authority merger (from 21 regional authorities, 2015) is well attested but only secondary-sourced, so the date is not asserted as primary-verified.