Police tightens security, and introduces a check of employees ' spouses and children over 18 years of age.

All the employees in the Danish police must now be cleared to a higher level than in the past. It requires, to employees, lovers, spouses and children over 18 years of sign, that the PET must walk them out.

Writes the not having on this, the ushers lose the work.

It writes Berlingske.

the Decision to scrutinize the politiansatte and their nearest is taken by the Police. It has happened with a view to enhancing the security of the Danish police. The safety authorisation shall comprise a total of 16.900 employees in the police.

- We have always examined our employees, and now we carry out a proper security check to a higher level, says Ina Eliasen, who is the HR director in the national Police.

- We are among other things, to the terror and deep professional criminal networks. We must ensure that our employees do not find themselves Belugabahis in a situation where the wrong one can exploit them, she adds.

the national Police has decided that all employees in the Danish police must be security cleared to the level "confidential". Individual employees have, however, had to be approved to the level higher called "secret".

It is according to the Berlingskes information been imposed on the officers to disclose whether they have financial debt and if so, in how many money it relates to.

Also stay abroad within the last five years, the ushers had to inform about.

Bent Greve, a professor and researcher in labour market policy at Roskilde University, may not relate to the security aspects of the case.

He calls it, however unusual that spouses and children must be supervised.

- I find it difficult to understand why spouses and children must be included before one can decide whether a person can perform his work. This must depend on his qualifications, he says to Berlingske.

Chairman of the Politiforbundet Claus Oxfeldt have an understanding that you have introduced the tougher background checks.

- But it is lagging in this case, is information about why and exactly what it is you want to investigate about our family members. It has been imperfect, and it is something we have been made aware of the national Police, he says.

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