Crime

Accident investigators are scouring social media video to find different views of a boat crash that left a child of primary school age dead, and another person injured. The incident happened on Saturday off the coast of Hanko when a…

Police in Lapland are asking for potential witnesses to come forward after a device exploded underneath a rental car used by the Finnish Border Guard. The incident happened shortly before 01:00 in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the…

Finnish Customs and the National Bureau of Investigation have broken up what they describe as a "large-scale" drugs network which imported and distributed illegal pharmaceuticals and prescription drugs between 2017 and 2020. Investigators say the sales took place mainly on…

Police in Helsinki are searching for several men following the death of another man outside a popular nightclub earlier this month that also left four people injured. The incident took place in the early hours of Sunday morning 5th July…

Eastern Uusimaa Police say they’ve busted a large professionally-run cannabis farm in Kerava. Investigators suspect that two people were behind the operation which may have started as early as 2018 in a second location. In June this year police seized…

The National Bureau of Investigation NBI says it has taken over the case of a Finns Party activist badly beaten last Friday, and investigating whether it was attempted murder. Pekka Kataja was attacked in his home in Jämsänkoski by two men….

Police in Central Finland are investigating an attack on a Finns Party official as a case of attempted homicide. The incident took place on Friday in Jämsänkoski when two men went to the home of Pekka Kataja – who works…

Police say there’s been a big rise in the number of frauds carried out this year compared with last year, and that elderly people are often targeted. From January until the end of June police got more than 20,000 different…

The Finnish Immigration Service Migri reports another rise in the number of victims of human trafficking seeking help with their situation. Since the beginning of 2020, some 48 people were referred to the Assistance System. The number of people has…

Finland’s most senior police officer says more can be done to improve relations with minority communities – especially in the area of recruitment – and to bridge the gap between perception and reality of trust in the police. National Police…