No such thing as permitted speeding

The police are more likely to take action on speeding at a lower threshold than earlier. Speeding is always against the law, and there is no such thing as a permitted speeding.

Recent news and public debate may have created the impression that someone driving at a maximum of five kilometres an hour over the permitted speed limit can get away with a caution. The police would like to remind drivers that this is not true.

“There is no such thing as permitted speeding and all speeding is against the law,” points out Chief Superintendent Tuomo Katajisto at the National Police Board. 

The National Police Board recently issued new guidelines on the sanction threshold. Since the guidelines are considered to contain tactical and technical methods of the police, their content is partly confidential. However, media news that financial penalties would invariably be imposed starting from six kilometres over the speed limit is not true.