Police monitor criminality visibly and covertly – Online tip-offs needed

The police have more than three million tasks a year. They carry out these tasks both visibly and covertly in compliance with the law. To prevent and detect online crime, the police need the help of society as a whole, including you.

There has been a dramatic rise in the number of crimes committed or online or enabled. People are being scammed out of huge sums of money by psychological means. These scams have become increasingly sophisticated and difficult to detect. This makes it important that people know how to recognise and protect themselves against such scams.

There are also other suspicious online activities and content, which may be related to, for example, drugs, violence or threats of violence, corruption or sexual offences. 

“The police are increasingly present online. Perhaps not so much face to face, but accessible, nevertheless. The police ask citizens to report any suspicious activity they see online to the online tip-off line,” says Chief Superintendent Pekka Heikkinen at the National Police Board.

Read Chief Superintendent Pekka Heikkinen’s blog: Crime prevention in villages, schools and increasingly online 

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