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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.

Vacancies The police employs people from many different walks of life. Just over one quarter of our staff of 10,000 are not police officers. The police organisation has a huge range of jobs to offer to civilians as well. We need people who are abl...

Tasks and activities The police is tasked with ensuring the safety of people and the environment in all situations and at all times. The police seeks to prevent crime and investigate offences and brings them to the consideration of charges. The Na...

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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...

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We operate everywhere in Finland The Finnish Government steers the operations of the police. The steering is implemented through the goals of the Government Programme as well as the Government Resolutions. The Ministry of the Interior is responsib...

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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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.

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 ...

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

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.

Career stories A career with the police can start and progress in many ways. Would you like to know more about what it is like working for the police? Learn about the many aspects of police work through our career stories. The stories feature memb...

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.

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.

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.

11.12.2025 | A study published by the Police University College asks whether alternatives could be found to arresting and remanding a child suspected of a criminal offence. This could be achieved by making the legislation on travel bans more consistent.

19.12.2025 | A national report on wilderness surveillance completed in August has now been published in the Police University College's publication series and is available online.

18.9.2025 | Gambling is being marketed illegally on various social media platforms and in game streams, and the police are addressing this activity. A particular concern for the police is the marketing of gambling targeted at young people.

8.11.2023 | The audit team appointed by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC) will visit the Police University College (Polamk) from 8 to 9 November 2023 to conduct a comprehensive audit of Polamk’s quality system and to highlight strengths and enhancement areas.

29.8.2025 | Public trust in the police has remained stable for a long time. Of those who responded to the latest Police Barometer survey, 92 per cent trust the police a lot or a fair amount.

5.6.2025 | The police make more than 2,000 co-operation visits to Finnish schools this year

14.11.2025 | The Police University College is investigating how a remote controlled unmanned aerial vehicle (drone-in-a-box) system could be utilized in operational police work. The project is being carried out in cooperation with Central Finland and Southeastern Finland police departments.

5.12.2025 | The Timeout Foundation grants this recognition to an actor who has strengthened dialogue, inclusion, and democracy in Finland.

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!

19.3.2026 | In the Cyber Capital project, the development areas of the authorities' cybercrime prevention expertise were identified more comprehensively than before, and the training content of cybercrime prevention was renewed using the knowledge accumulated during the project. The effort generated new expertise and strengthened international cooperation.

19.2.2026 | What factors undermine citizens’ strong trust in the Finnish police? Why do Finns have such a high level of trust in the police? These themes are discussed in the second part of the publication “The Police and the Public”.

27.5.2026 | Security issues are a new perspective in the practices of open science and research. Polamk has both a higher education institution role and a police unit role, and the operating model takes into account the constraints on openness set by the police unit role.

Police en Newsroom Blog The use of alpha-PVP can also be seen in road traffic 16.12.2025 9.34 Blog Abstract The synthetic narcotic alpha-PVP, which has rapidly become more common in Finland, has turned into a visible phenomenon in recent years, bo...

18.9.2025 | Illegal marketing of gambling in game streams and social media

16.5.2025 | The course will be held from 12 to 16 May 2025 and attended by approximately 50 persons such as police officers and experts in social welfare, health care and youth work.

10.10.2025 | The Police University College of Finland is participating in two research projects that will provide an overview of the current situation with organised crime and related phenomena in Finland and the Nordic countries.

23.2.2026 | There were nearly 5,800 applicants for police education starting this year. This is the highest number of applicants since police studies became a higher education program in 2014.

27.8.2025 | Police University College is to take part in the Finnish Defence Forces’ local defense exercise on September 1–4, 2025. During the week, the personnel and equipment involved in the exercise may be seen on roads in the area.

4.3.2026 | Police University College main building will be illuminated in blue between 6 and 7 March in an international campaign to honor police officers fallen in the line of duty.

4.3.2026 | Police of Finland will participate this year for the first time in a global Interpol campaign to honour officers fallen in the line of duty. The flags will be flown at half-mast at police stations all over Finland on Friday 6 March.