24.9.2024 | The police will carry out an intensified elk and deer hunting control operation during 30 September – 27 October. The operation will be carried out when the elk hunting season is already underway and hunting clubs are at their most active. The operation will be carried out in cooperation with other wilderness supervisory authorities responsible for hunting and fishing matters, i.e. the Finnish Border Guard, Customs and Metsähallitus.

19.4.2024 | Police to control compliance with pedestrian crossing rules and the behaviour in traffic of cyclists and e-scooter users

23.4.2024 | Police had to take away licences from 47 young drivers in intensive control at the weekend

8.8.2025 | Helsinki Police Department has received a lot of feedback about public order disturbances and the perceived lack of safety resulting from substance abuse. These disturbances are mainly related to drug use and related crime.

10.1.2024 | Traffic safety has continued to show good development, and the number of road traffic fatalities has reached below 200 for the second year in a row. The biggest fall in road fatalities was seen in passengers travelling in passenger cars. 

28.8.2024 | Police departments are to carry out an intensified monitoring operation of street behaviour and substance abuse during the Venetian Festival weekend, 30 August – 1 September, when, in addition to traditional festivities, young people gather to celebrate the start of the school year. Monitoring will focus on young people under the age of 18. Particular attention will be paid to the possession of intoxicants, narcotics and bladed weapons or other objects capable of harming others.

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24.7.2024 | Based on initial data, this year will not continue the good trend of the past few 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.

6.9.2024 | Police departments carried out an intensified street and substance abuse enforcement campaign during the Venetian Festival weekend, 29 August-1 September, and the preceding week. Monitoring focused particularly on young persons aged under 18.

14.5.2024 | According to police statistics, there has been a significant number of pickpocketing incidents targeting tourists in Helsinki since the beginning of the year. Pickpocketing occurs most frequently between May and September, when there are many tourists in Helsinki. The peak times for these incidents are between 10:00 AM and 3:00 PM.

27.5.2024 | Police Departments will carry out intensified street and drug enforcement during the end-of-school week from 27 May to 2 June 2024, with a focus on young people under 18 years of age. Particular attention will be paid to the possession of intoxicants, narcotics and bladed weapons.

29.4.2024 | The Helsinki Police will intensively monitor crime-prone and disturbance-prone areas from April 29 to May 19, 2024, in the city center as well as in metro and train transportation.

18.8.2023 | Police to control compliance with pedestrian crossing rules and the behaviour of cyclists and e-scooter users in traffic

19.5.2023 | The police will organise intensive control at pedestrian crossings from Monday to Friday in week 21. The police will also control how vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists comply with traffic rules and their safety.

12.6.2024 | Police departments carried out an intensified street and substance abuse enforcement operation during the end-of-school week. Young people under the age of 18 in particular were a target group in the operation

13.10.2023 | Late autumn is a high-risk time in road traffic – the police supervise the most common contributing factors to accidents

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13.11.2023 | Police to step up detection of drug-impaired drivers on the road

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30.9.2022 | The police will organise intensive controls of compliance with the traffic rules and the safety of unprotected road users on Monday 3 October 2022.

2.10.2023 | The police will carry out intensified elk and deer hunting controls during 7-29 October 2023 in cooperation with other wilderness supervisory authorities responsible for hunting and fishing issues.

21.8.2023 | First part of year shows significant growth in crime committed by young suspects

2.2.2024 | Finnish drivers drive faster than average, when tired and hold a mobile phone when driving.

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11.4.2022 | The police will supervise the traffic behaviour and safety of unprotected road users on Tuesday, 12 April 2022, by targeting supervision at cyclists, drivers of light electric vehicles, and pedestrians, and their behaviour in traffic.

9.8.2023 | July is a gloomy time in traffic, with more road traffic accidents resulting in injuries due to driving while intoxicated in July than in other months. The police intensified their monitoring of the use of intoxicants on the roads and on water across the country from 3 to 30 July 2023. The police breathalysed almost 64,000 drivers.

24.1.2023 | The Police statistics show that the number of offences committed by young suspects has increased dramatically.

4.10.2021 | The Police are to supervise road user safety in traffic on Wednesday 6 October 2021 by focusing control on drivers of motorised and light e-vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists and their behaviour in road traffic.

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29.3.2023 | The increase in digital scams continued during 2022 and Finns lost a total of EUR 32.4 million to fraudsters. Watch out, verify, warn others – a joint campaign by Finnish authorities, NGOs and companies – makes the point that everyone can help prevent scams.

27.7.2021 | If traffic offences are not taken into account, the offence type pursuant to the Criminal Code that experienced the largest decrease was property offences. The number of reported assault offences also decreased, and the clearance rate of assault offences increased, while the number of sex offences increased.

21.2.2022 | Similar to the first Covid year, 2021 was also fairly exceptional traffic-wise as the pandemic kept traffic volumes lower than usual.

26.10.2023 | The number of suspected hate crimes reported to the police increased by one fifth last year, indicates the Police University College’s annual report.

25.10.2022 | The police blog post discusses cybercrime committed by young people and intervention by the police. The Cybercrime Exit project aims to prevent young people from committing cybercrime.

11.5.2022 | In the coming weekend from 13 to 15 May 2022, the Police will have nationwide controls of mopeds and other light two or four-wheeled vehicles and their drivers. The controls will focus not only on the condition of the drivers and adequacy of their licences, but also on the state of their vehicles and on the way the traffic code is respected.

14.4.2022 | The Police continues its work to ensure the safety of vulnerable road users and has a two-week campaign of intensified nationwide controls from 18 April to 1 May to ensure the respect of relevant traffic rules.

27.7.2021 | During January to June of the current year, the Police was informed of approximately 227 000 crimes nationwide. This is about four percent down from the same months last year.

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3.2.2021 | Last year, a record number of offences under the Criminal Code were recorded in the district of Eastern Uusimaa Police Department. During the year, 60,000 offences were reported, which is one fifth more than in the previous year. The number was the highest in 10 years.

16.2.2023 | The Police would like to remind dog owners that during the period from 1 March to 19 August dogs must be kept on a leash as provided by the Hunting Act. The objective of the provision is to protect the undisturbed breeding and nesting of natural animals.

2.2.2021 | The year 2020 was exceptional in many ways, and the Covid-19 pandemic affected the day-to-day work of the police in Helsinki, and the city’s crime statistics, in diverse ways.

19.8.2022 | Watch it, drivers! Police continues to ensure safety of pedestrian crossings

3.8.2020 | The Helsinki Police Department successfully fulfilled their basic duties during the exceptional start of the year

13.4.2021 | The Police continues its work to ensure the safety of vulnerable road users and will have an intensified control focus day on 14 April 2021 at pedestrian crossings, looking at how the relevant traffic rules are followed.

13.10.2022 | According to the annual report by the Police University College, the number of suspected hate crimes reported to the police in 2021 was one fifth higher than in the previous year.

23.8.2021 | The Police continues its work to ensure the safety of vulnerable road users and has an intensified control focus day on 24 August 2021 at pedestrian crossings, looking at how the relevant traffic rules are followed.

7.4.2021 | The Police will have an intensified traffic control operation on 8 April 2021 to ensure the safety of vulnerable road users. The controls are targeted at the traffic behaviour of motor-driven vehicle drivers, pedestrians, cyclists and drivers of light electric vehicles.

17.8.2022 | The Police will collaborate with other authorities in nationwide controls during the opening weekend of the waterfowl and bear hunting seasons.

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.

2.2.2021 | Last year was highly exceptional in traffic, too, because traffic volumes declined dramatically due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

2.2.2021 | The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed everyday life last year. This was also clearly reflected in police operations. Due to the restrictions, movement of people decreased and consequently the number of assaults in public places declined.

28.4.2021 | Winter starts to be bygone and we are heading full speed towards the spring. We are all eager to jump on the moped and other two-wheelers and take off. This is the perfect time to go through the questions what, how and where you ride – to make this traffic season safe for all road users.

4.5.2020 | Internal family issues are a cause for concern during the emergency conditions

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.

7.10.2020 | Last year police learned of slightly fewer suspected hate crimes than in 2018, according to an annual report on hate crimes from the Police University College. According to the report, a total of 899 criminal complaints were filed last year about acts that were classified as suspected hate crimes. The number declined, approaching the longer-term level that preceded the surge in growth in such crimes that took place in 2015.

30.6.2023 | Shrinking age groups and urbanisation are already realities today and nor are the police immune to these phenomena. The National Police Board’s recent analysis of the operational environment shows the challenges can already be seen with retaining the workforce in some duties, especially in sparsely populated areas and smaller police stations. Young people in particular prefer to move to growth centr...