Dag Bo Gustaf Helin is a Swedish bureaucrat and politician. He is the tenth patriarch of the

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and the fourth of the Helin Hexad.

Biography

Helin is the second son of Inga Karin Emilia Engwall and Bo Henrik Gustaf Helin. He is the brother of diplomat and politician Inger Marianne Helin; engineer Connie Lilly Helin; Electrolux executive Denis Bo Gustaf Helin; lector Gun Henriette Helin; and diplomat and bureaucrat Greger Johan Gustaf Helin. In the 1990s, Helin was the Director of

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in Maria-Högalid. He was appointed as Director of

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in 1996. He was appointed Director of

and The Labour Market Administration. He was a major contributor to establishing the modern Swedish Child Protective Services. He held the opinion that police and

should be separated. He was appointed Director of Stockholms Social Services. He exposed sexual abuse and sexual trade within government agencies in 2005. He was an outspoken critic of the

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in relation to abuse against assailants. In 2007, he actively scrutinized the

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for turning a blind eye to corruption within the police force following the arrest of Göran Linberg or “” (Captain Dress), a police chief that later was exposed as a serial rapist. In 2009, Dag Helin resigned without formal notice. In June 2009, he stated in an article published by SVT that “no reason was given to as to why he should resign”. Today the circumstances behind the resignation are still uncertain. Helin married Eva Christina Lundin (b. 1947) in 1976.

References

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