Ms. Beatrice Ask This is Me

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1. 1. www.akronworldaffairs.org

   www.akronworldaffairs.org/news - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/1/2007   Last Visited: 12/1/2007

   Akron's Police Department welcomed Beatrice Ask, Sweden's Minister of Justice, to its offices on Memorial Day, May 28, 2007.
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   Ms. Ask also rode with Sgt.
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   Ms. Ask, as Sweden's Minister for Justice, has oversight over her country's police forces, the prison system, the courts and all related areas.
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   During the discussion, Ms. Ask and Chief Matulavich identified commonalities and differences.
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   In her conversation with Chief Matulavich, Ms. Ask inquired about Akron's most challenging problems.
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   Akron Chief of Police, Michael T. Matulavich, meets with Beatrice Ask, Sweden's Minister of Justice. (Photo by Donald Frost, Akron Police Department)
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   Sgt. Daniel J. Caprez shows Beatrice Ask his computer connection to Akron's Safety Forces Information System.
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   Ms. Ask discussed some significant differences and challenges in Swedish policing.
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   In their discussion, Chief Matulavich and Ms. Ask agreed that dealing with juveniles is no better than a holding action.
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   Ms. Ask asked how Akron protects its officers on duty.
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   "In Sweden", Ms. Ask said, "thousands of Iraqi refugees have been accepted.Serving and managing this group, along with those coming earlier from the Balkans and Somalia and southern Europe is challenging."Sweden's generous welfare program combined with different societal traditions has proved problematic in getting more of these individuals to work, even given her country's formal work programs.
   
   She said that various types of crime have also risen.She believes, however, that the EU will eventually arrive at some commonality in asylum policies so that broader responsibility can be assumed for refugee groups in these countries.
   
   The ride with Sgt.
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   Beatrice Ask
   
   Minister of Justice, Sweden
   
   Beatrice Ask trained in international economics at the University of Uppsala.Prior to that, Beatrice Ask spent a year as a high school exchange student in Akron, Ohio in 1974.
   
   Beatrice Ask has been very involved in politics since her youth.In 1984, she was the first woman to be elected chair of the Moderate Party youth organisation, serving in that position for four years.
   
   In 1988, Beatrice Ask was appointed City Commissioner in Stockholm with responsibility for schools and education.
   
   After the 1991 election, Beatrice Ask was appointed Minister for Schools and Adult Education at the Ministry of Education and Science, where she was a driving force behind the groundbreaking introduction of school vouchers for primary and secondary education.
   
   In 1994, Beatrice Ask was elected to the Riksdag (Swedish Parliament), serving there until 2006.During her time there, Beatrice Ask was first a Member of the Committee on Education and then a Member of the Committee on Justice, the War Delegation and the Committee on European Union Affairs as well as Deputy Chair of the Nominations Committee.She was also the Moderate Party Spokesperson on Education, and then the Party Spokesperson on Justice Affairs.She was also a Member of the Executive Board of the Moderate Party.
   
   From 2003 to 2006, Beatrice Ask was a Member of the National Police Board.
   
   After the election in 2006, Beatrice Ask was appointed Minister for Justice and head of the Ministry of Justice.
   
   Beatrice Ask is 51 years old and has two children.

2. 2. www.p2punite.net

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   Published on: 6/7/2005   Last Visited: 10/8/2007

   Rickard Wessman, spokesman for Justice Minister Beatrice Ask, told The Local:

3. 3. Embassy of Sweden in Cairo

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   Published on: 10/10/2006   Last Visited: 4/25/2007

   Beatrice Ask Minister for Justice