Development of competence and structures for gaming police activities (GAMING POLICE) The GAMING POLICE project develops new multi-professional activities to prevent and combat harmful activities and crime targeting children in the world of digita...

Equality in the police 2018 Implementing a study on equality is one of the measures included in the police’s equality and equal opportunities scheme for 2017–2019. Similar studies have previously been carried out in 1998 and 2004. The 2018 study i...

Northern Police Research Webinar The international Northern Police Research Webinar presents recent research in the field of policing for researchers, practitioners and other interested parties in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Scotland, Irelan...

Public Communication of the Finnish Police The changing communications environment is increasing pressure for change in how authorities communicate. “The Public Communication of the Finnish Police” project aims to respond to these changes in the o...

Police Response to Domestic Violence Emergency Calls The project consists of a study aimed at determining why only approximately one in five of the emergency calls labelled as domestic violence result in reporting a crime. Another goal is to estab...

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Monitoring the corruption crimes reported to the police (KORRIK) The study uses police records to examine bribery and other corruption-related crimes from 2019 to 2023. Corruption is understood as the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. The...

Finnish–Swedish Police Joint Patrolling in Torne River Valley The project involves training Finnish and Swedish police officers to cooperate in patrolling the Torne River Valley. The aim of the training is to give police officers the competencies ...

International models for public communication of the police and their utilisation in Finland (VIESTI) Police communication is developing from one-way dissemination of information towards phenomenon-based and interactive communication. The police m...

From Surveying Police Vehicle Damage towards Improving Driver Education and Training The project centers around surveying the police vehicle damage reports from 2013, on which a picture is built of the damage suffered by police vehicles in Finland...

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Partnerships We outline our partners as follows: customers service providers public entities education and research community networks. Our projects involve a wide range of various authorities and higher education institutions and, occasionally, a...

Development of project competence in the Ministry of the Interior’s administrative branch (PROOSA) The project will build and harmonise employees’ project competence in the Ministry of the Interior’s administrative branch. The project will prepare...

MISEC – Development of cooperation between immigration and security authorities The goal of the development project is to promote the cost-effectiveness and quality of the immigration system. Development is being implemented as multi-agency work. ...

Enhancing Professional Skills and Raising Awareness on Domestic Violence, Violence against Women and Shelter Services (EPRAS) The project, coordinated by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare THL, develops and implements an electronic, web-...

Strategic planning The Police University College is both a higher education institution and a police unit. We value constructive criticism, research-based knowledge and its utilisation, questioning the old and developing the new, as well as innova...

Key working groups and their tasks Numerous groups and networks that are often multidisciplinary and focus on different themes operate at the Police University College and include student and Polamk partner representatives. Some of our groups are ...

Key working groups and their tasks Numerous groups and networks that are often multidisciplinary and focus on different themes operate at the Police University College and include student and Polamk partner representatives. Some of our groups are ...

Operational support Our most important resource is competent personnel. Finances make our operations possible. Communications, information management, technology and facilities are essential prerequisites for our operations. The Police University ...

Hate Crime The project is aimed at compiling basic information on the nature and prevalence of racially-motivated and other forms of hate crime on the basis of hate crimes reported in the police's information system. The project is carried out ann...