Crime

Finland’s Supreme Court has ruled that police can’t use electronic equipment seized from a journalist’s home as part of their preliminary investigation into how she got classified material about the country’s intelligence capabilities. In its ruling the court said the…

Police forces in Finland and Spain have cooperated on an operation to smash a large drugs smuggling and drugs sales operation. Officers in Helsinki, Tampere and Häme joined forces with their Spanish counterparts to arrest two Finnish nationals they say…

Police have arrested a number of foreign nationals as they tried to flee the country by ferry, after a masked gang raided a chemical storage facility in Espoo. Now the National Bureau of Investigation says they’re investigating a serious drug…

Police in Helsinki say they’ve made a number of arrests, and delayed the departure of a ferry from the city’s Olympic terminal, in an operation which is related to an earlier incident in Espoo. Early Monday afternoon Western Uusimaa Police…

Police in North Savo are investigating two overnight stabbing cases as attempted homicides – although officers don’t think the two incidents are linked. In Kuopio a 50-year old man has been detained after the first stabbing at a private residence….

A school in Tampere, its head teacher and other officials have been cleared of any wrongdoing over a poster competition for 9th grade students that took aim at the Finns Party’s policies on immigration. In autumn 2018 three students at…

Law enforcement agencies including police departments, the National Bureau of Investigation KRP and Finnish Customs Tulli have launched investigations into an estimated 6000 people who used the Silk Road Silkkitie dark web platform. According to authorities the online market has…

The Helsinki Police Department has decided to ban an Independence Day demonstration by the Movement for Freedom right wing group. Police believe the group is essentially made up of many of the same members as the Nordic Resistance Movement which…

Police in Eastern Uusimaa say they suspect that two fires at properties in Nurmijärvi were started deliberately. The fires were noticed early on Saturday morning before 08:00 – the first at a cafe building, the other nearby about an hour…

Police in Helsinki have detained four people in connection with an apparent homicide in the city. Officers were called to the capital’s Pitäjänmäki neighbourhood around 22:30 on Tuesday, and police say they deployed several patrol vehicles to the area. Four people…