Sweden: Half of jogging women molested

Police in Helsingborg should train their dogs in Pålsjö forest now. This follows a survey showed that over half of the country’s women are molested when they jog.

Over half of women are molested and subjected to sexual harassment while jogging. There is a nationwide survey of exerciser women made out of a magazine for runners, writes Swedish Television News.

Therefore, the police in Helsingborg started a new project that aims to train police dogs in löparspåren in Pålsjö forest, where women previously infected.

– We’ll try to spread the safety of the jogging track, says Thomas Andersberg, head of the dog handlers to SVT.

But not only. Because the police are training their dogs around the clock, it will also be safer in the wake of exercise regardless of time of day.

The project begins in mid-April. Then fourteen jogging and walking the dog handler, with yellow police vests are in Pålsjö forest.

After the summer ends the project, at least temporarily, and evaluated.

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