B APPENDIX Dnr O 7-2018 Page 14 (15) dismissed but will be offered other employment within the agency. Phase three, which concerns urgent transportation, will thus not be implemented within the current budget. However, the Prison and Probation Service performs some urgent transportations, but it is not financially justifiable for the agency to be able to carry out urgent transportations on a 24 hour basis. The representatives of the Prison and Probation Service asked to be allowed to return with information regarding the claims that the agency does not accept orders for urgent transportations and, as such, no longer performs them. The Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman stated that she is aware of reports of the strained occupancy situation within the Prison and Probation Service. She is concerned regarding reports which have appeared in the media and observations made during the recent Opcat inspections of Göteborg Remand Prison and the police custody facilities in Borlänge. Due to this, the Chief Parliamentary Ombudsman announced that she will initiate an own-initiative inquiry which will focus on the situation of those deprived of their liberty. The intention is that the own-initiative inquiry will include a survey of the occupancy situation, targeted inspections and possibly a dialogue with the Prison and Probation Service. The representatives of the Prison and Probation Service stated that the inmate occupancy rate in remand prisons on 11 March 2019 was 102 per cent and that 21 remand prison had over 100 per cent occupancy. All inmates are included, including those inmates awaiting enforcement of their sentences. When the situation was at its worst in autumn 2018, the Prison and Probation Service had more than 200 inmates waiting for a placement in prison. On 11 March 2019, there were 149 inmates in remand prison waiting for placement in a prison, of which 70 inmates had ongoing placement cases. A placement case must be completed within seven days. Within that time, documentation must be produced, decisions made and thereafter a vacant place must be found and transport to the prison must be ordered. The Prison and Probation Service has not been able to maintain normal processing times, mainly due to the lack of places in prisons. There are also long queues at the National Assessment Unit at Kumla Prison. In addition, 68 migration detainees were placed in the care of the Prison and Probation Service under the Aliens Act. The agency has doubled the number of cells in remand prisons and in the National Assessment Unit, and uses security places at the Prison and Probation Service's high-security units for placing inmates held on remand. The representatives of the Prison and Probation Service stated that the remand prisons with the highest occupancy are in southern Sweden, and also include the remand prisons Kronoberg, Huddinge, Saltvik and Falun. The forecast is that the flow of inmates will increase by 7–8 per cent up to June 2019 and then level off, but it could continue to increase. Working groups have been established with representatives from the Police Authority, the Migration Agency and the – 80 –