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Created by Rojda Sekersöz and Julia Lindström, the new Swedish Netflix series, The New Force (Skiftet), takes an in-depth look at the lives of Sweden's first female police officers. In 1958, Klara District Chief Gunnar Svard decided to conduct an experiment by introducing female police officers. The low-paid job didn't appeal to men, so they turned to the untapped labor pool, giving rise to the experiment. For the first time, trained female police officers were seen walking alongside their uniformed male colleagues and patrolling the streets of Stockholm. It was a historic moment, but most people at the time looked down on female police officers, and the series focuses on the daily struggles of these young female officers desperately trying to carve out a space for themselves. The New Force is a fictional drama centered on an important chapter in history. The series opts for a non-biographical narrative and focuses on the struggles female police officers faced back then, which ...