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The current political and legal discourse in the Swedish society is how we should fight gang- and organized crime in the best way. In 2019 the current government therefore proposed a 34-point program (34-punkts programmet) proposing four focus areas to combat the problem. One tool in that toolbox is expedited prosecution (snabbare lagföring) which was introduced to streamline the process of prosecuting volume crime. The method started as a trial in Stockholm in 2018, but since 2023 has been implemented as a permanent method within the entire Police Authority as part of the program against gang crime and organized crime. The aim to understand how police officers on patrol experience the method and in the theory part, to describe how implementation theory and crime prevention in the form of deterrence are the basis. The essay has a qualitative approach where material has been collected through interviews with 8 police officers on patrol where, after transcribing, the material has been analyzed through thematic analysis. The result shows that there is no consensus in the experience of why the method was implemented, but that all respondents generally have a positive experience of the method. Furthermore, the Police Authority needs to systematically collect suggestions of improvement and further on, evaluate the method to move towards evidence-based policing.