Traffic safety and surveillance The police pursue traffic safety cooperation with different authorities and organisations, not forgetting increasing international cooperation. Of all authorities monitoring traffic, the police undoubtedly play the ...

6.5.2026 | The Police and the Finnish Road Safety Council inspected child safety seats in April and found room for improvement in terms of keeping children safe in cars. The Police issued 14 traffic penalty fees and six fines.

11.3.2016 | Polisen skärper övervakningen av trafiken nästa vecka – I synnerhet övervakas användningen av säkerhetsanordningar och faktorer som orsakar ouppmärksamhet i trafiken

20.3.2024 | Police imposed more than 2,100 penalties for failure to use seat belts and for using mobile phones

12.9.2024 | Children must use a child seat when travelling by car even on the shortest trips, regardless of the parents’ opinions. The Finnish Road Safety Council is participating in the police's child seat usage surveillance in September all around the country. The police will monitor the use of seat belts and child safety seats from 16 to 20 September 2024.

13.9.2023 | Police to control wearing of seat belts and use of mobile phones in traffic nationwide on 18-22 September

3.3.2023 | Police reminder: seat belt is free and invaluable safeguard in crashes

26.9.2022 | The police conducted a nationwide monitoring operation on 16-22 September 2022 targeting in particular the use of seat belts, protective helmets and the use of mobile phones. A total of 1,095 drivers received a traffic penalty fee for failure to wear a seat belt in front or back seats and 28 guardians or drivers received a traffic penalty fee for failure to use safety equipment for children.

15.9.2021 | Between 16 and 22 September 2021, the Police will have intensified and nationwide controls of safety equipment and focus on factors that impair attention in traffic, such as mobile phone use during driving.

20.12.2024 | The police are deeply concerned about this year's grim statistics on road traffic fatalities among children and young people under 18. Although the number of road fatalities is significantly lower today than it was ten years ago, the trend for children and young people has taken a clear step backwards in 2024.

26.9.2023 | Fidgeting with mobile phones while driving always poses a major risk to all road users

25.4.2024 | In the special exhibition “Marias and Mörkös”, vehicles on display include the world’s fastest police motorcycle and police cars from various decades.

15.2.2024 | Friday 16 February kicks off the 2024 ski holiday season, with Finns in the southern part of the country beginning their holidays. This means that the roads will be busier than usual over the following weekends. The police call on drivers to adjust driving speeds to the prevailing weather conditions.

7.3.2024 | The police will carry out intensive surveillance of the use of seatbelts and other safety devices, as well as mobile phones by drivers, across Finland from Monday to Friday 11–15 March 2024.

14.3.2023 | During last week’s nationwide thematic controls, the Police issued 902 fixed petty fines for failures to use the seatbelt. In addition, 74 fines were issued to those failing to use the belt or safety seats in cases where the negligence was found to be apt to jeopardise the safety of another person, for example, a child or a passenger on the front seat.

14.9.2022 | The police will conduct a nationwide monitoring operation on 16-22 September 2022 on the use of seat belts and protective helmets as well as inattentiveness in traffic. Monitoring of inattentiveness includes the distractive use of technical devices while driving a vehicle or tram as well as the use of a handheld mobile phone by the driver of a motorised vehicle or tram while driving.

21.12.2016 | Use of seat belts and compliance with pedestrian crossing regulations would significantly improve traffic safety

20.3.2017 | Intensive police surveillance reveals high number of seat belt violations and reckless mobile phone behaviour

21.3.2019 | Disappointing results from the nationwide intensive traffic police surveillance: nearly 1400 tickets issued for seat belt violations and almost 750 tickets issued for driving whilst using a mobile device

12.4.2022 | In the nationwide traffic surveillance operation last week, police intervention was required in a total of 715 cases of persons neglecting the use of seat belts or safety devices in traffic. Of these, 15 were children, whose use of safety devices is the responsibility of the child’s guardian, or if such a person is not present, the driver’s.