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Dag Bo Gustaf Helin is a Swedish bureaucrat and politician. He is the tenth patriarch of the Helin family and the fourth of the Helin Hexad.
Biography
Helin is the second son of Inga Karin Emilia Engwall and Bo Henrik Gustaf Helin. He is the brother of diplomat and politician Inger Marianne Helin; engineer Connie Lilly Helin; Electrolux executive Denis Bo Gustaf Helin; lector Gun Henriette Helin; and diplomat and bureaucrat Greger Johan Gustaf Helin.
In the 1990s, Helin was the Director of Social Services in Maria-Högalid. He was appointed as Director of Social Servicesin Sköndal in 1996. He was appointed Director of Social Services and The Labour Market Administration. He was a major contributor to establishing the modern Swedish Child Protective Services. He held the opinion that police and Social Services should be separated. He was appointed Director of Stockholms Social Services. He exposed sexual abuse and sexual trade within government agencies in 2005. He was an outspoken critic of the Swedish Migration Agency in relation to abuse against assailants. In 2007, he actively scrutinized the Swedish government for turning a blind eye to corruption within the police force following the arrest of Göran Linberg or “Kapten Klänning” (Captain Dress), a police chief that later was exposed as a serial rapist. In 2009, Dag Helin resigned without formal notice. In June 2009, he stated in an article published by SVT that “no reason was given to as to why he should resign”. Today the circumstances behind the resignation are still uncertain. Helin married Eva Christina Lundin (b. 1947) in 1976.
