Police vehicles Finnish police use cars, vans, motorcycles, scooters, boats, water scooters, snowmobiles, quad bikes, bicycles and light electric vehicles. The police has to operate in many different kinds of environments and weather conditions, w...

26.8.2025 | The police imposed a large number of sanctions in the urban traffic surveillance campaign

12.5.2025 | The police will monitor young people's use of intoxicants and their behaviour in traffic. Traffic controls will focus on moped riders, cyclists and drivers of light electric vehicles. Police patrols will also be visible in school areas.

4.6.2025 | The police monitored the safety of unprotected traffic throughout Finland over a period of three weeks from 12 May to 1 June 2025. The surveillance focused on the riding of bicycles, light electric vehicles and mopeds. With regard to cars and other heavier vehicles, special attention was paid to compliance with the rules concerning pedestrian crossings.

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

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.

23.8.2022 | The police paid attention to speeds, zebra crossing and safety device rules and mobile phone use under a monitoring scheme to keep schoolchildren safe in traffic.

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.

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.

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.

2.5.2023 | The Nordic Prime Ministers will visit Helsinki on Wednesday 3 May 2023, at the invitation of President of the Republic of Finland Sauli Niinistö. The meeting will take place at the Presidential Palace on Wednesday. The meeting impacts traffic in the Helsinki city centre.

10.7.2023 | The President of the United States Joe Biden will visit Helsinki on Thursday, 13 July 2023, at the invitation of Sauli Niinistö, President of Finland. The meeting will take place at the Presidential Palace. The visit will cause changes to traffic in the centre of Helsinki.

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.

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.

7.9.2018 | The police will monitor safety at pedestrian crossings and compliance with pedestrian crossing rules

12.10.2022 | Häme Police Department Sustainability Report 2021 Keeping everyone safe, at all times We are committed to promoting the implementation of UN Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030). From among the goals in the Agenda, we have chosen the SDGs t...

9.4.2021 | On the special control day organised to improve the safety of vulnerable road users, many sanctions were issued to road users of various groups. Cautions and fines for traffic violations were given to cyclists on pavements and drivers of light electric vehicles.

12.8.2020 | We are all responsible for protecting children’s school routes – the police will be visible during the first week of school

2.8.2019 | Helmetless adult cyclists set a bad example for children - Police to monitor traffic in the vicinity of schools as the new school year begins

15.5.2019 | Council of Europe meeting will have a significant impact on traffic in the metropolitan area on Thursday, 16 May and Friday, 17 May