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Are you a victim or perpetrator of violence or both?
25.11.2024 11.04
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
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What is the future of mediation – questions about mediation
30.7.2024 12.30
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
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Measurement errors – a challenge in police crime statistics
28.8.2023 13.55
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
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Solution to street gang problem not only in Police hands
6.2.2023 16.27
During the past couple of years, the Finnish authorities have become aware of the street gang phenomenon, also present in recent public discussions. One word or term hardly ever captures all aspect
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Finland doesn’t utilize the opportunity offered by EU to improve internal security
6.10.2022 12.54
The Police finds it detrimental to the internal security of the Schengen area that Finland should prohibit, based on its Aliens Act, the storage of registered fingerprints and photos in the SIS (Sc
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With careful planning, trial drug consumption rooms may involve opportunities
4.8.2022 13.27
Trial drug consumption rooms are a theme regularly debated in public. Now, the citizens’ initiative to trial supervised drug consumption rooms has received more than 50,000 signatures, and will pro
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How is criminal investigation in the police doing?
16.3.2022 8.29
One of the tasks of the police is to prevent, uncover and investigate crimes. Criminal investigation is only one sector in the operations of the police. Criminal investigation is larg
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A new alarming trend of cowardly crimes against Vastaamo victims
11.2.2022 11.06
Since the launch of the criminal investigation into the Vastaamo hacking incident, the police have conducted active monitoring to see whether the victims' personal data have been used for criminal
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The police are constantly improving their skills to interact with vulnerable victims
19.8.2021 12.10
The current year has seen public debate on cases where the focus has been on the attitude, approach and skills of the police in investigating human trafficking and related crimes. The matter is als
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