Violence – in particular, domestic violence against women – is a serious problem in Finland.   What comes to mind when you think of violence or domestic violence? Most people probably ...

The Finnish police have earned the trust and respect of citizens through their actions. This is backed up by various surveys on trust in authorities and institutions. The Finnish police also do wel ...

The police have carried out enhanced enforcement of impaired driving during the month of July in 2023 and 2024. In 2023, the police breathalyzed a total of 64,000 vehicle drivers during this sp ...

Recent years have seen roughly half of Finland as the focus of fatal road traffic accidents. As the map below shows, the majority of fatal accidents on Finnish roads in 2022–2023 occurred outsi ...

Students Assi Sipola and Julia Häkkinen spent their spring and summer as university trainees in communications at the National Police Board. In this blog, Assi and Julia tell what ...

In mediation, the parties involved in a criminal act come face to face with each other and search for a solution to the crime or dispute at hand, in cooperation with mediators. Mediators are no ...

Finnish law enforcement is actively working to prevent cybercrime committed by young people and during the past years has, for example, used Google Ads as a tool to warn youth about the illegal ...

Finnish drivers drive faster than average, when tired and hold a mobile phone when driving. An extensive international ESRA (E-Survey of Road Users' Attitudes) surveys traffic ...

Did you know that every 23 seconds, someone dies in traffic in some part of the world? Every year, more than one million people are killed in traffic globally. No wonder then that the ...

The prestigious Police Officer of the Year award was presented today, 8 November 2023, to Detective Senior Sergeant Ismo Venäläinen from Eastern Finland Police Department. At the same time, the cho ...

Last week, the Orpo Cabinet published the Government statement to Parliament on promoting equality, gender equality and non-discrimination in Finnish society. The statement underlines that historic ...

The volume of crimes in the statistics, i.e. the police recorded criminality, may be influenced by the volume of control, among other factors. If in a certain area the volume of a particular type o ...

A cat is a small mammal that along with dogs is the most popular pet in Finland. There are an estimated some 600,000-1,000,000 cats in Finland and an estimated 20,000 of these are abandoned each ye ...

Last week, the District Court of Pirkanmaa passed judgment in an exceptionally extensive whole of crimes against children. The acts initiated mainly in the social media were targeted at 120 victims ...

The young leaving without permission from foster care units are often on their own, facing a great risk of falling victim of crimes, or becoming perpetrators themselves. For example, the runaway ma ...