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The Helsinki Police Department (HPD) (Finnish: Helsingin poliisilaitos) is the department of the Police of Finland in charge of the Finnish capital of Helsinki. Its responsibilities include enforcing the law and providing security for the city. The Helsinki Police has close to 1,600 employees.
The police is divided into police departments, which encompass the area of multiple municipalities; municipalities do not have police forces of their own. The function of each police department is to maintain general law and order, prevent crime, investigate crime and other events that threaten public order and safety, to carry out traffic ...
Its organization is two-tiered: the National Police Board leads and directs operational police activities. [5] Directly under the National Police Board are the police departments and the national police units, including the National Bureau of Investigation and the Police University College of Finland.
The Police of Finland is subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior and divided into the National Police Board, two national units and 11 local police departments. Within departments, there is a division between uniformed patrol police (järjestyspoliisi, "order police") and criminal investigation (rikospoliisi, "crime police"). The function ...
The Police Special Intervention Unit was formed as a national police tactical unit in the spring of 1972. [4] It provided security for the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe , held in Helsinki in 1975.
It has closed its entire 1,340 km (833 mile) border with Russia for two weeks in a bid to halt an unusually large flow of asylum seekers that Helsinki says amounts to a "hybrid attack ...
The NBI headquarters in Tikkurila, Vantaa. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) was established on 30 December 1954 upon ratification of Act 510/1954 and became operational in 1955 by merging the Uusimaa Province Crime Police Centre (Finnish: Uudenmaan läänin rikospoliisikeskus) and the Crime Research Centre (Finnish: Rikostutkimuskeskus).
Janne Puhakka, the country’s first openly gay hockey player, is believed to have been shot and killed by his estranged husband weeks after breaking off their relationship, according to local police.