4.10.2023 | Towards the end of the year, Police University College will organize, for the first time, a national continuing education course on investigation of animal welfare offenses. More than 30 police officers from all parts of Finland will attend the course alongside criminal investigators from the Border Guard and special prosecutors and district court judges from the National Prosecution Authority.

20.11.2025 | A research project funded by the Ministry of the Interior examined the current state of street gang crime and explored what is needed to effectively disrupt the activities of criminal networks.

16.10.2025 | The FERMI project has developed an AI-based tool that can help police identify threats early and plan preventive actions. Disinformation has served as a testbed for the project.

17.11.2025 | The international IMPROVE project developed issues such as an AI-based service to help victims of domestic violence. The European Commission awarded the service as the best innovation of 2025.

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4.5.2023 | In the 2023 image survey of higher education institutions, the Police University College received the highest overall grade from Finnish young people under 30 years of age.

10.11.2025 | An annual report by the Police University College shows that the number of suspected hate crimes continued to increase in 2024.

From field work to training provider and developer Assistant Police Commissioner Sami Hätönen, Chief of the Public Order and Security Unit National Police Board Master of Public Administration, Bachelor in Police Command The Police Officer of the ...

Do you want to become a trainer? A trainer of courses for users of forcible means equipment and refresher courses Only persons licensed as a use-of-force trainer by the National Police Board may act as trainers for forcible means equipment user tr...

27.6.2024 | The national Police Day will be celebrated on Saturday 10 August 2024. That day, you can get acquainted with police equipment and activities, such as motorcycles, police dogs and mounted police with their horses, at the Police Museum and in its yard. The Police Museum is part of the Police University College.

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4.4.2025 | The Police University College is once again the most respected and best-known university of applied sciences in Taloustutkimus’ annual brand survey.

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5.8.2025 | The national Police Day will be celebrated on Saturday August 30, 2025. On that day, you will have a chance to get acquainted with police activities and equipment at the Police Museum and in its yard. Lots of fun activities are in store for the whole family!

16.11.2022 | The Finnish Education Evaluation Centre will audit the Police University College’s quality system in November 2023.

27.11.2025 | The Finnish and Swedish police into increasingly closer co-operation in the Lapland and Norrbotten regions

21.3.2023 | The Police University College (Polamk) has published an operating model for open science and research to outline the principles for responsible openness in the work community and to provide guidelines for everyday work and processes.

29.9.2025 | A separate parking area has been reserved for the vehicles of museum visitors from the beginning of October 2025. The parking permit required for the parking spaces can be collected from the reception point of the museum.

21.3.2025 | The Police University College’s Annual Report 2024 has been completed. The publication contains information about the record number of students, the development of online teaching and diverse research activities, and much more.

Versatile project work Group Lead Erno Järvi National Police Board, Information Technology Centre of the Police Master of Engineering, IT As a group lead, I am responsible for project planning, development and steering. The work is a versatile set...

24.6.2025 | A study by the Police University College describes the trend in economic crime and the state of economic crime investigation in Finland.

Read the career story of Chief of Human Resources Development Satu Koivu

3.4.2025 | The Police University College (Polamk) and Jamk University of Applied Sciences organized an exercise for the authorities focusing on cybercrime prevention on 25–27 March 2025.

4.6.2025 | National Police Commissioner Ilkka Koskimäki received the new police officers’ ethical oath at the Police University College on Wednesday 4 June 2025. In his speech, Ilkka Koskimäki highlighted the safety and security of schools. The police support the security work carried out in educational institutions. However, the security of schools is a more extensive issue, and not a matter for the police alone.

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29.10.2025 | Superintendent Sami Hätönen, who works at the Police University College, has been chosen as the Police Officer of the Year 2025 in Finland. The nomination was announced on Wednesday 29 October 2025 at a seminar in Helsinki.

13.5.2026 | The National Police Board has published an updated handbook on the investigation of crimes involving children and young people. The handbook is intended to serve as a collective guide for investigating crimes against children as well as crimes suspected to have been committed by children. The guide can be downloaded from the police website.

19.11.2024 | Research by the Police University College dives behind the figures of the police barometer, implemented every two years. The analyses focus on three themes: shortage of police resources, crimes not reported due to fear of retaliation, and threatening of crime victims and witnesses in the criminal process.

15.5.2025 | The report underpinned the update of the strategy against organized crime and the implementation of the Government Program in Finland.

27.9.2023 | Welcome to meet Finland’s police dogs! The police dog gallery on the Police University College website shows, for example, what a dog called Pörrö looks like, how many Border Collies the Finnish police have, and in which police department a dog called Bomberboy works.

22.4.2021 | Young people have again considered the Police University College to be among the best in a survey mapping the recognition and appeal of Finnish universities of applied sciences.

30.6.2025 | In the future, the Police Museum will keep the historical artefacts of the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo). The items transferred to the museum collections include objects such as a secret mailbox from the 1950s related to espionage and bottles found at sea in the 1970s, intended for the smuggling of prohibited material.

13.3.2020 | Police University College policy on visits and events

14.8.2023 | Come and mark Police Day in Oulu or Paltamo

17.12.2020 | The Police University College has launched its new website on Thursday 17 December at polamk.fi. The updated website of the Police Museum has also been launched at the same time at poliisimuseo.fi.