The investigation by the Ministry of the Interior would aim for a new kind of police agency.
Ministry of the Interior will publish its report on police administration and development proposals on Thursday. One of the most significant findings of the report is that police operations must be harmonized. The main goal is to “bring the police back to ordinary people”.
The report examined the results of the so-called Pora 3 project. It was an administrative restructuring in the last decade, when the current eleven police units were formed and the Mobile Police was abolished.
The report lists some of the problems that the police still have.
First the difficulty is that the long-term planning and development of the police’s activities is made difficult by additional budgets that repeat year after year.
Approximately every year, the allocations allocated in the state budget are insufficient in relation to the expenses and needs of the police. That is why the shortage has had to be made up regularly.
The report suggests that the total budget for the police should be gradually raised to the Nordic level within eight years. It would bring long-term planning and result management of police units.
There are fewer police officers in relation to the population in Finland than in the rest of the EU, and the share of police spending in the gross domestic product is lower than in other Nordic countries, the report reminds.
Second the problem is the state of the basic criminal investigation. The investigation times and investigation levels of criminal cases have been constantly deteriorating. However, according to the report, the police are able to invest quite well in serious crimes against life, safety and the economy.
The survey found large differences between the units specifically in basic services.
There are especially problems in sparsely populated regions, where, according to the report, the police’s resource problems and the centralization of operations in cities and towns seem to have weakened surveillance and alarm services.
The report therefore presents multi-year and nationwide programs that, among other things, raise the level of basic criminal investigations and extend the so-called infrequent patrolling to all of Finland.
Third as an observation, the analysis highlights uniformity.
Now eleven police departments are organized in different ways in many respects and there are differences in their operating methods. According to the report, it is not without problems in terms of uniformity and equal services.
According to the report, it could be useful to aim for a single police agency, which would consist of the Police Board, national units and police stations.
Within such a police agency would be the police headquarters, internal support services, national units such as the Central Criminal Police and the Police University of Applied Sciences, as well as operational police districts.
A deputy judge acted as the investigator in the project Juhapekka Ristola. As a police expert, the investigation was supported by the deputy police chief Arto Karnaranta.
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