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...

Traffic offences The police detect traffic offences and address them every day. Traffic offences are often discovered in connection with the police’s traffic control or emergency activities. Traffic offences typically pose a danger to others. The ...

17.9.2025 | About one in seven, or 15 per cent, of electric scooter riders who are breathalysed on a weekend evening ride the scooter while so intoxicated that they get a traffic penalty fee of 200 euros.

5.8.2025 | The police will monitor traffic in built-up areas when school starts

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.

17.6.2025 | The Government bill concerning legislation on micromobility has been approved by Finnish Parliament. The amendments to the Road Traffic Act and the Vehicles Act included in the bill will enter into force today, 17 June 2025. The new legislation will bring several changes to traffic surveillance. The changes that will enter into force concern issues such as electric scooters. The amendments to the ...

22.5.2024 | Mopeds and electric personal transportation devices subject to spring check by the police and Traficom at the weekend

7.8.2025 | The police breathalysed more than 100,000 drivers in July

26.6.2025 | Aggravated endangerment of traffic safety and drunken driving in Midsummer traffic

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.

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

17.6.2022 | Light electric vehicles, that is, electric scooters, are back in the cityscape and public debate concerning them is ongoing. The discussion focuses on for example, serious accidents that have happened to electric scooter users, and other accidents involving them.

30.6.2021 | The Police has put its first fully electric patrol car in operation, with the van taken over by the Häme Police Department in Lahti on Wednesday 30 June 2021.

28.5.2024 | Last weekend, 24-26 May, the police checked the condition of mopeds, motorcycles and other vehicles lighter than cars and the condition and traffic behaviour of their drivers throughout the country. The operation was also directed at the condition and speed of electric personal transportation devices.

30.4.2024 | Police intervened in violation of pedestrian crossing rules and unlawful riding on the pavement

5.8.2024 | During the first weeks of school, the police supervise traffic in the vicinity of schools. The aim of the supervision is to ensure schoolchildren's safety on the way to and from school and to prevent traffic accidents.

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.

20.4.2022 | Monitoring the use of electric scooters will be one of the Helsinki Police Department’s key themes in traffic surveillance this summer. The police will intensely monitor the use of electric scooters based on traffic control requests.

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

Car burglaries and unauthorised use Finland is one of the safest European countries regarding motor vehicle offences. Cars, for example, get stolen in Finland least often in the entire EU. Also the amount of cars that remain missing is small in Fi...