20.5.2019 | Extending the authority of the police to issue a driving ban, and renewal of the fine procedure

Applying for a gambling licence Apply for a gambling licence by submitting a written application. Write your application in Finnish or Swedish. Send the application and attachments to the National Police Board via the online service, by email, or ...

23.6.2021 | Victims of Vastaamo hacking have made a record number of crime reports. The police estimate that the number of victims is even higher. The police will start interviewing victims in the autumn.

Projects and top-up funding The police can use its top-up funding towards the organisation’s development projects. The following projects have been financed fully or partially with top-up funding. Projects in progress Open all Close all IMPROVE - ...

Fraud In fraud offences, the perpetrator aims to obtain financial benefits by deceiving the victim. Fraud often causes financial damage to the victim. Nowadays, there are many kinds of fraud types, and they have moved to information networks. E-ma...

Emergency response Emergency number – 112 If you need urgent police assistance, call the national emergency number 112. If someone has been injured, begin administering first aid. Prevent any further damage from occurring, if possible. You do not ...

14.6.2024 | The National Bureau of Investigation will request that a man born in 1990 suspected of two attempted murders be placed on remand. The request will be considered by the Oulu District Court on Monday 17 June.

Police on social media We use social media to educate the public about police work. We also use our social media profiles as a way to quickly communicate information that could help our followers to, for example, avoid traffic jams or stay safe. W...

2.4.2024 | The investigation of the shooting at the Viertola school in Vantaa is progressing. The incident took place In Jokiranta today 2.4.2024 at nine o'clock in the morning.

Police emblem and how to use it correctly The sword-and-lion emblem is one of the best known symbols of Finnish police. The appearance and use of the emblem is regulated by the Finnish Government’s Decree on the Police. The police emblem consists ...

28.11.2023 | The police have concluded an extensive criminal investigation concerning Thai berry pickers who worked in Finland and are believed to have become victims of human trafficking. The police suspect five people of the offence.

12.10.2023 | National Bureau of Investigation is setting up a joint investigation team with Estonia for the cooperation in criminal investigation into the gas pipeline incident.

26.3.2024 | On 18 March 2021, the National Bureau of Investigation published a press release on a criminal investigation into the hacking of Parliament's information systems in 2020–2021. The suspected offences under investigation have been aggravated espionage, aggravated unlawful access to an information system, and aggravated violation of the secrecy of communications.

3.4.2024 | The investigation of the school shooting that took place yesterday morning in Viertola, Vantaa, continues at the Eastern Uusimaa Police Department.

8.4.2024 | The investigation into the Viertola shooting incident continued over the weekend with technical examinations and a number of interviews. The police also interviewed the suspect again. The police are more or less aware of the course of the events.

3.4.2024 | The Eastern Uusimaa police has made progress in the investigation of the school shooting in Viertola.

20.10.2023 | The National Bureau of Investigation also examines if the object found in the seabed has any connection to the damage in the gas pipeline.

16.10.2023 | Investigations into the damage to a gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable have progressed over the weekend. The technical investigation at the scene has been allowed to continue.

17.5.2024 | Spanish law enforcement authorities carried out an operation in which two persons targeted by the Finnish Police were also arrested. Spain authorities released information about the operation earlier this week. This joint search and arrest operation between Spain, Finland, Sweden and Poland was coordinated by the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) and carried out in the regions of Barcelona and Malaga on Tuesday 23 April.

15.3.2024 | National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) conducts investigation into an alleged aggravated money laundering as a Finnish company has received money from Ukraine for supplying protection gear to the war zone. According to the criminal investigation, a total of 5.7 million euros was sent to a Finnish entrepreneur from the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.

19.10.2023 | The scene investigation into the damaged gas pipeline has been completed and the collected samples have been submitted to forensic examination.

13.10.2023 | The Police and the Border Guard have set up a joint investigation team to carry out a preliminary investigation into the damage to a gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable.

24.10.2023 | The sequence of events has been established on the basis of evidence and data, and the vessel Newnew Polar Bear, flying the flag of Hong Kong, is believed to have caused the damage.

30.7.2024 | Since the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023, the Itä-Uusimaa Police Department has been investigating an international organised crime group led from Poland. The group is suspected of having imported to Finland considerable volumes of narcotics and their precursors.

10.11.2023 | Investigation into the Balticconnector gas pipeline damage has been underway for a month. Technical examinations have reinforced suspicion that the anchor lifted from the sea belongs to the vessel Newnew Polar Bear.

11.10.2023 | National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) launched criminal investigation on Tuesday, October 10 into a possibly intentional damaging of gas pipeline as aggravated criminal mischief.

17.10.2023 | The police stated yesterday that the details of the vessels which sailed in the area during the gas pipeline incident have been established. Investigation has been targeted on several vessels relating to the place and time of the incident.

15.8.2019 | Police revises the handbook on fines to harmonise the fine procedures

3.2.2023 | A 25-year-old man suspected of the aggravated computer break-in has been arrested in France under a European arrest warrant. The police issued the arrest warrant for the suspect in October 2022.

27.2.2023 | The National Bureau of Investigation will request that the Finnish man suspected of the computer break-in committed against Psychotherapy Centre Vastaamo be placed on remand by the Western Uusimaa District Court in Espoo on Tuesday 28 February. The suspect was surrendered to Finland on Friday 24 February from France, where he was arrested at the beginning of the month.

2.5.2023 | The National Bureau of Investigation and the National Criminal Police of Estonia have investigated together aggravated trafficking in human beings involving companies with links to the construction industry. It is suspected that an organisation consisting of different companies and individuals has deceived several dozen workers into coming to work in Finland in circumstances such as forced labour and has gained criminal proceeds of over 2.3 million euros from this activity.

28.10.2022 | The National Bureau of Investigation has made progress in the criminal investigation of the hacking incident committed against Psychotherapy Centre Vastaamo. A Finnish man has been remanded in absentia on suspicion of the offence. A European arrest warrant has been issued against the suspect.

18.3.2022 | A construction company is suspected of having exploited their workers who have been unaware of the applicable working hour laws and collective contract terms. The company has made the employees work very long hours , with no weekly rest days or increments of pay. Moreover, the workers have been forced to refund part of their pay to the employer.

Frequently asked questions about the licence holder’s obligations Is there a charge for processing annual reports? The supervisory authority does not charge a separate processing fee for the annual reports. However, holders of a gambling licence o...

3.10.2022 | The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), the Border Guard and the Helsinki Police Department investigate suspected human trafficking in connection with a Finnish berry company. Two persons have been remanded on suspicion of trafficking in human beings.

30.9.2022 | The criminal investigation has revealed that the victims lost their money after being scammed into making investments on online crypto investment platforms.

6.4.2022 | The National Bureau of Investigation investigates airspace violations by Russian civil aircraft. The violations are investigated as regulation offences.

5.6.2023 | The National Bureau of Investigation and the Southwestern Finland Police Department have finished a criminal investigation into online banking frauds. The suspect, who is a man in his twenties, has been remanded since December 2022. The complex investigation has links to a wider criminal phenomenon in which Finnish people have lost millions of euros in recent years.

6.7.2023 | Investigation of the criminal offences related to the Vastaamo case has required an exceptional amount of work from the police, and this is clearly visible in the statistics for the police’s criminal investigations for this year. By the end of June, approximately 25,000 crimes related to the case have been solved.

31.1.2022 | The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has concluded a large-scale criminal investigation into aggravated impairment of the environment. The criminal investigation, involving three cases with an international dimension, started at the beginning of 2020. A press release on the progress made in the investigation was delivered in May 2021.

16.9.2021 | In spring and summer 2021, the police detected an online fraud scheme in which criminals are phishing for online banking codes for malicious purposes. The police have set up a national investigation team to tackle this crime.

4.5.2026 | 1 (38) Letter 07.04.2026 Document: ID-26235751 Case: POL-2025-152385 Written guidelines for obliged entities on the prevention of money laundering and terrorist financing in gambling activities Contents Definitions ...................................

4.11.2025 | ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME IN FINLAND Review 2024 National Working Group on Monitoring Environmental Crime 01 August 2024 2 Summary TITLE Environmental Crime Report 2024 PREPARED BY Finnish National Group for Monitoring of Environmental Offences PUBLISHE...

27.1.2022 | The Barnahus project jointly run by the Police and Finnish institute for health and welfare (THL) has published a handbook which is a collective guide for the investigation of violent and sexual crimes against children. The handbook collects information for the Police regarding various pretrial investigation measures.

8.3.2022 | The results of a recent study by the police show that the number of violent crime incidents in which the suspect is under 15 years old has grown significantly in recent years.

19.8.2021 | 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.

30.10.2025 | Decision Translation ID-24753995 1 (5) 06.02.2024 POL-2024-20460 NATIONAL POLICE BOARD Vuorimiehentie 3, P.O.Box 1000, 02151 ESPOO kirjaamo.poliisihallitus@poliisi.fi Tel. +358 295 480 181, Fax +358 295 411 780 police.fi Enhanced Police Anticorrup...

27.10.2021 | The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has investigated the computer break-in against Psychotherapy Centre Vastaamo since autumn 2020. Progress has been made in the criminal investigation, and the next step is to interview victims of the hacking incident online.

5.1.2026 | Letter Translation ID-24755195 1 (13) 14.06.2024 POL-2024-20460 NATIONAL POLICE BOARD Vuorimiehentie 3, P.O.Box 1000, 02151 ESPOO kirjaamo.poliisihallitus@poliisi.fi Tel. +358 295 480 181, Fax +358 295 411 780 police.fi Police Anticorruption Polic...

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.

14.3.2024 | National Working Group on Monitoring Environmental Crime 01 August 2023 ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME REPORT 2023 2 Summary REPORT NAME Environmental Crime Report 2023 PREPARED BY Finnish National Group for Monitoring of Environmental Offences PUBLISHED 8/2...

16.6.2023 | Instruction ID-22754708 1 (41) Translation 1 3.01.2023 POL-2022-144428 NATIONAL POLICE BOARD Vuorimiehentie 3, P.O. Box 1000, FI-02151 ESPOO, Finland kirjaamo.poliisihallitus@poliisi.fi Tel. +358 295 480 181, Fax +358 295 411 780 poliisi.fi Validi...

11.1.2023 | ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME REPORT 2020 The National Working Group on Monitoring Environmental Crime 01 July, 2020 Content 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................

22.12.2022 | ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME REPORT 2021 The National Working Group on Monitoring Environmental Crime, Finland 01 July, 2021 2 Content 1 General ..................................................................................................................

29.1.2024 | The Finnish police have observed the changes in the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, over the past year. In order to secure operational security, the police will transfer operational communications from X to the Poliisi.fi website from 1 February 2024 onwards.

3.12.2024 | Statement ID-24794938 1 (81) 01.11.2024 POL-2023-12050 NATIONAL POLICE BOARD Gambling Administration Konepajankatu 2, P.O.Box 50, FI-11101 RIIHIMÄKI arpajaishallinto@poliisi.fi Tel. +358 295 480 181 police.fi National Police Board's guidelines on ...

22.12.2022 | ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME REPORT 2022 The National Working Group on Monitoring Environmental Crime, Finland 01 August, 2022 2 Summary TITLE Environmental Crime Report 2022 PREPARED BY National Monitoring Group on Environmental Crime PUBLISHED August, 20...

30.5.2023 | Privacy statement ID-23299511 1 (25) 11.05.2023 POL-2023-16652 NATIONAL POLICE BOARD Vuorimiehentie 3, P.O.Box 1000, 02151 ESPOO kirjaamo.poliisihallitus@poliisi.fi Tel. +358 295 480 181, Fax +358 295 411 780 police.fi Privacy statement; National ...

27.2.2023 | The working group set up by the National Police Board has now completed its report on the Vitja IT system project. Three alternative models have been proposed and the timelines and costs of these have also been estimated. Follow-up actions will be decided on the basis of the report and the working group’s proposal.

20.2.2023 | Privacy statement ID-22312769 1 (9) 11.05.2022 POL-2022-36157 Privacy statement; Processing of personal data of covert human intelligence sources 1 Controller National Police Board Postal address: P.O. Box 1000, 02151 Espoo Street address: Vuorimi...