27.4.2026 | Police call-out volumes continue to rise — police concerned about the increasing violence of youth crime

4.8.2025 | Theme of Police Day: Encounters in schools and streets

20.5.2025 | Pirkkalassa Vähäjärven koululla usean partion tehtävä

5.3.2025 | Police cooperation with schools has got off to an excellent start across Finland. An estimated 40 police officers with different missions are working together with schools and positive results can already be noted.

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.

2.4.2024 | On 2 April 2024 at 9.08 am, the police received information through the Emergency Response Centre that a shooting had taken place at the Viertola school in Vantaa. According to the information the police was given, three persons were injured.

4.4.2024 | Investigation into the shooting incident at Viertola school in Vantaa on Tuesday 02 April 2024 continues, including interviews with the individuals involved and technical investigation.

8.2.2024 | Violent crime by minors is mainly targeted at other minors. Seamless cooperation between the authorities and new measures are required to break the cycle of serious violent crime by minors.

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.

1.6.2022 | Like the year before, this school year too was exceptional because of Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine. But now school is out for summer that is almost there. During the school’s-out weekend 3 to 5 June 2022, the Police will engage in intensified surveillance of the consumption of intoxicants by the young. The controls focus on the young persons’ consumption of alcoholic beverages and drugs.

6.8.2021 | Over the next few weeks, the Police will intensify traffic control in the vicinity of schools. The aim is to prevent road accidents and to ensure schoolchildren have a safe journey to and from school.

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

20.12.2018 | Assault in a school in Northern Espoo on 17 December

6.8.2018 | The police will monitor traffic in the proximity of schools when the school year begins – it is worth familiarising children with school routes in advance

21.1.2011 | The National Police Museum attracted 15,000 visitors in 2010

16.9.2022 | The Helsinki Police Department has completed the pre-trial investigation of several aggravated narcotics offences, which will be transferred to the consideration of charges. As a special characteristic of the pre-trial investigation, it has been revealed that the opioid drug OxyContin has spread in the Capital Region. Users of the drug have developed a strong addiction in a short period of time. ...

16.9.2022 | Helsingforspolisen har färdigställt en förundersökningshelhet som omfattar flera grova narkotikabrott. Helheten lämnas nu till åtalsprövning. Som ett särdrag i förundersökningen har det uppdagats att opioidläkemedlet OxyContin har spridits i huvudstadsregionen. Läkemedlet har inom en kort tid gett upphov till ett starkt beroende hos dess användare. Opioidepidemin i Nordamerika som uppstått på grund av oxikodonpreparat har varit aktuell i nyheterna runtom i världen.