Law enforcement in Finland

Examples of other agencies with limited policing powers are the Finnish Defence Forces, municipal parking inspectors and railway staff.

The Customs may utilize all investigative police powers, with the exception of the use of deep-cover personnel and sting operations.

The Customs also occasionally enforces laws such as fuel taxes and vehicle traffic-worthiness, without connection to imported goods.

However, the Finnish Security Intelligence Service conducts actual criminal investigations of state security-related crimes within the Defence Forces.

[7][8] The police may request assistance in performing their duties from the Defence Forces or other agencies – for example when special equipment or competency is required.

In practice, the Defence Forces have assisted in disposal of explosives, provided Pasi armored vehicles for operations against heavily armed suspects (e.g. the Kauhajoki shooting), and conscript manpower for searching missing persons in terrain and in supporting the 2015 refugee crisis.

[9] Finnish military police and investigative command would assume a more extensive set of tasks in wartime.

The Ministry of the Interior has the authority to grant police powers to any person for a specific task and to the degree necessary.

[16] The SRVA is a voluntary activity organised by the semi-governmental hunting district associations (Finnish: riistanhoitoyhdistys).

The SRVA personnel are experienced hunters trained for police assistance, and they provide hounds and armed hunters to track and euthanise large game that has been wounded in a traffic accident or that police has decided to euthanise to prevent danger to human safety.