Sune Olof Hilding Sandström (26 June 1939 – 22 October 2011) was a Swedish police officer. He was Chief of the Swedish Security Service from 1987 to 1989.

Early life

Sandström was born on 26 June 1939 in Nyhem,

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, Sweden, the son of merchant Olof Sandström and his wife Frida (née Sandelin). He grew up in

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and passed ''

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'' in

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Career

After becoming a reserve officer, he was admitted to the district police superintendent (''landsfiskal'') education and obtained a district prosecutor's degree in

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in 1965. He underwent police chief training in Stockholm in 1966. The same year, Sandström worked as a police secretary at the Swedish National Police Board. He was then secretary at

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Council from 1967 to 1969 and police secretary in

from 1969-1971. Sandström served as Police Commissioner in

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from 1971 to 1973 and as Chief Superintendent at the Swedish National Police Board from 1973 to 1979. During this time, Sandström received a

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degree in Stockholm in 1975. Sandström served as Deputy Police Commissioner in Stockholm from 1979 to 1987. In 1987, Sandström was appointed chief of the Swedish Security Service (RPS/Säk, later Säpo) during the very turbulent time after the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. He left the post in 1989 in the aftermath of the

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and the Stig Bergling-affair and then became Head of Department at the Swedish National Police Board where he was responsible for coordinating the police work in connection with the

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. He was then head of the Police Operations Department at the Police Authority in

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before ending his career as Deputy County Police Commissioner in Stockholm County from 2000 to 2003.

''Enemy's Enemy'' (1989)

In the novel '' Enemy's Enemy'' (1989) by author

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, Carl Hamilton is assigned from his clients to go to

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and kill the spy

Stig Bergling Stig Svante Eugén Bergling, later Stig Svante ''Eugén'' Sandberg and ''Stig'' Svante Eugén Sydholt, (1 March 1937 – 24 January 2015) was a Swedish Security Service officer who spied for the Soviet Union. The Stig Bergling-affair, one of Sw ...

(in the book called Stig Sandström) who has escaped during his conjugal visit, killed his wife and went to Moscow to work for the Russians. The surname Sandström was taken from Sune Sandström, the then head of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo).

Personal life

In 1967 he Sandström married Ella Hallberg (born 1937). He had big interest in

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and was a member of the ''Stockholm travsällskap'' ("Stockholm's Harness Racing Society") and was for some time its auditor.

Bibliography

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandstrom, Sune 1939 births 2011 deaths Swedish police officers Swedish civil servants People from Bräcke Municipality