Affiliations: [a] Department of Political Science, Södertörn
University, Huddinge, Sweden
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Ola Svenonius, Department of Political
Science, Södertörn University, Alfred Nobels allé 7, SE-14189
Huddinge, Sweden. Tel.: +46 8 608 45 17; Fax: +46 8 608 40 71; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: This article reports on the results of a study on surveillance and
plural policing in the Stockholm public transport system. More specifically, it
analyses a SEK 500 million (EUR 55 million) investment called The Security
Project, through which the Stockholm public transport authority seeks to
address a perceived security deficit among its passengers. At its core, the
Security Project was an investment in Sweden's largest CCTV system, and many
other surveillance measures. The article describes how surveillance became
central to addressing security concerns in the Stockholm public transport
system. It applies a diachronic case study methodology and uses a framework
that highlights centralisation of governance networks and normative cohesion as
means to study plural policing and surveillance. The article addresses current
debates on these topics, primarily Coaffee's and Duijnhoven's recent work on
urban security. It aims to show how the roles of the police, private security
and surveillance practices in general have been altered by the Security
Project, and how the project produced contradictory effects through
centralisation on the one hand, and a maintained (chaotic) diversity of policing on the other.
Keywords: Policing, surveillance, CCTV, security governance, Stockholm, public transport
