There were snipers on the Liverpool Building in Liverpool so I was expecting that as a minimum tbh. But then I'm used to that level of security in the UK.
They had snipers by the fan arena. I don't know about Malmö Arena itself as tbh I didn't look. Having seen them at the fan arena I'd have been more surprised if they hadn't. There were a lot of armed police about in the crowd by the entrance.
I have to say I felt that security into the arena had some questionable decisions going on. I won't go into details but it was clear from what I saw that the Swedish authorities weren't really used to doing gig security. I have seen better security going into a bog standard medium sized gig in the UK for some things.
The no bag rule is probably a decent idea but they were far too reliant on it.
I wasn't really surprised though. I think the UK has a different mentality to it all due to the Northern Ireland stuff generally.
My impression was generally that protesters were less problematic than you'd get in the UK (cultural differences I suspect - Swedes are much more polite and well behaved than Brits generally from my observations) until yesterday evening as I believe there was some hassle from a minority in the small protest permitted by the stadium. So this again will be part of policing decisions and mindsets.
It could have been a lot worse.
So something of a mixed bag to my mind.
It was generally speaking ok at the arenas having said that. I felt safe despite having some misgivings over some areas not being as good as perhaps they should as my expectations. It could have been worse (I've been to gigs all over the world and attitudes to security vary wildly).