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  • Especially young adults encounter gambling marketing on social media

    10.01.2023 7.00, updated
    Illegal gambling advertising has been especially targeted at young adults on social media channels for several years. Marketing typically utilises the popularity of social media celebrities and aims to associate gambling with images of success, coping well in life, prosperity and publicity. However, gambling causes serious social, health and economic harms, which are ignored in advertising.
    National Police Board
    Supervision of gambling
  • National Police Board issues decision on the Elokapina demonstration

    16.12.2022 14.07, updated
    On 16 December 2022, the National Police Board has made a decision on the case of internal legality control relating to the events during the demonstration organized by the Finnish branch of Extinction Rebellion (Finnish name Elokapina) outside the Government Palace in Helsinki on 8 October 2021.
    National Police Board
    Law enforcement and response

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  • Young people’s criminal symptoms require attention by society at large

    24.01.2023 10.29, updated
    National Police Board
    Offences and criminal investigation
  • The police remind everyone of the safe use of fireworks; maintain order and safety on New Year’s Eve

    27.12.2022 10.27
    Helsinki Police Department
    Helsinki
    Law enforcement and response
  • Some Police social media accounts put on hold at year’s end

    21.12.2022 8.00
    National Police Board
    Police operations and development
  • Police to reinforce fight against cybercrime: Finland to join a Europol taskforce

    20.12.2022 8.36, updated
    The National Bureau of Investigation
    Offences and criminal investigation
  • Payment blocks for gambling services enter into force at the beginning of 2023

    09.12.2022 8.30, updated
    National Police Board
    Supervision of gambling

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  • Young people’s cry for help calls for joint effort by entire society

    24.01.2023 14.56, updated
    Society changes and evolves, and the direction is mostly positive. The young are the makers of our future, and it is their job to see, experience and...
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    change related to person
    juvenile delinquency
    police (organisations)
    social exclusion
    young people
  • Pre-trial investigations delayed due to police resources being insufficient in relation to the number of tasks

    10.11.2022 15.21, updated
    According to the decision (1510/2021, in Finnish) of the Parliamentary Ombudsman of Finland, issued on Tuesday 25 October 2022, the fundamental problem...
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    criminal procedure
    police (organisations)
    preliminary investigation
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  • Changes in operating environment of internal security – enhanced international and operative Police collaboration 

    31.10.2022 14.50, updated
    As a result of comprehensive trends in the security environment, law enforcement authorities have had to react to increasingly multiform threat scenarios...
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    international crime
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