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Statistics on offences and coercive measures

The statistics on offences and coercive measures describe offences by area and the coercive measures used by the police, customs and border guard. The data derive from the Ministry of Interior's police information system. The data are published four times and once a year.

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Number of recorded robberies grew by 23.3 per cent in 2022

According to Statistics Finland's preliminary data, a total of 473,100 offences against the Criminal Code were recorded by the police, customs and border guard in 2022. This is two per ent fewer than one year earlier. The number of robbery offences increased by 23.3 per cent. Good 2,300 of them were recorded.

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09.06.2022

Property reported as stolen in theft offences

Municipality

Property category

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2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
20,686 19,557 19,785 20,987 23,871 22,675

2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
20,686	19,557	19,785	20,987	23,871	22,675

09.06.2022

uspects by the sex of the victim

	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Male victims	Suspect males	18,402	19,184	24,193	22,286	20,699	18,761	18,531	18,331	18,356	18,542	18,701	19,079	18,847
Suspect females	2,370	2,626	3,842	3,812	3,603	3,360	3,550	3,484	3,433	3,680	3,998	4,065	4,108
Female victims	Suspect males	10,976	11,704	17,194	16,783	15,551	14,859	14,899	15,172	15,013	15,591	16,576	16,948	17,722
Suspect females	2,221	2,750	3,695	3,397	3,205	2,949	3,055	3,204	3,033	3,102	3,446	3,066	3,374

06.07.2022

Offences known to the authorities (number) ICCS classification

ICCS offence category

Case classification

2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
771,659	824,248	886,156	930,252	934,369	960,978	858,508	866,559	824,898	815,833	819,912	861,921	873,415	818,528	686,045	501,398

19.01.2023

Offences known to the authorities according to the municipality of offence

Offence group and specifier for criminal act

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09.06.2022

Offences recorded and their solving

Municipality

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
	Offences known to the authorities (number)					Solved offences total (number)
Offences and infractions total	861,921	873,415	818,528	686,045	501,398	644,493	694,702	648,316	507,769	324,107
1 Offences against penal code	438,373	443,525	452,771	543,429	482,593	272,894	273,636	274,990	313,438	306,619
11 Offences against property	210,773	206,961	216,007	256,468	223,643	80,497	78,813	83,269	89,455	86,697
1101 Total of thefts 28:1-3	125,431	122,741	126,906	139,121	127,791	41,472	40,251	42,462	48,186	43,153
1101a1 Thefts, through unlawful breaking into a residence or summer house etc	4,770	4,922	4,534	4,722	3,896	1,243	1,108	1,060	1,266	1,043
1101a5 Thefts, shoplifting	44,907	45,620	47,720	52,453	52,319	30,506	30,140	32,458	35,851	32,361
1109 Robbery 31:1-2 total	1,640	1,701	1,809	1,996	1,893	913	898	982	1,107	1,047
1116 Fraud, petty fraud 36:1,3	21,951	22,791	26,599	32,019	34,462	15,501	15,919	18,218	18,077	21,503
1118 Means of payment fraud, petty means of payment fraud, preparation thereof 37:8,10,11	6,433	5,899	6,082	7,177	6,103	1,217	1,223	1,189	1,240	1,137
12 B Crimes against life and health	35,744	36,074	36,227	35,912	36,525	23,519	23,005	23,028	24,218	24,171
1201 Offences against life total 21:1-3,34a:1	73	85	72	86	83	59	58	73	73	157
12012 Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing 21:1-3,34a:1	348	355	329	383	374	348	297	283	362	316
1204 Assault offences, total 21:5-7,34a:1§1/6	33,535	33,639	33,849	33,285	34,123	21,715	21,338	21,341	22,273	22,216
12042 Aggravated assault 21:6,34a:1§1/6	1,581	1,609	1,584	1,754	1,663	1,270	1,241	1,236	1,445	1,315
13 Sexual crimes	3,269	3,779	4,305	4,392	5,376	2,158	2,009	2,556	2,761	3,137
1301 Sexual abuse of a child, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, aggravated rape of a child 20:6-7, 7b	1,168	1,373	1,709	1,770	2,089	740	717	1,000	977	1,260
1302 Rape, aggravated rape, rape (3 mom) 20:1-2	1,245	1,393	1,477	1,450	1,851	888	761	1,004	1,208	1,164
15 Traffic offences	110,292	116,411	110,660	132,434	134,442	104,750	110,449	104,856	127,376	130,411
1501 Endangerment of traffic safety, hit-and-run 23:1,11	65,204	67,651	61,988	75,662	84,638	61,170	63,841	58,429	72,271	81,036
1502 Aggravated endangerment of traffic safety 23:2	3,808	4,047	4,334	6,072	5,438	3,555	3,603	3,834	5,535	5,177
1503 Drunken driving 23:3-4 total	17,685	19,006	18,498	20,216	17,370	17,217	18,293	17,704	19,581	17,292
1503a1 Drunken driving total, under the influence of alcohol	11,034	11,254	10,347	9,510	8,835	10,834	11,037	10,130	9,381	8,585
1503a2 Drunken driving total, under the influence of other intoxicant	5,744	6,749	7,006	9,248	7,338	5,492	6,338	6,554	8,803	7,524
16 Other offences against the Penal Code	65,940	67,818	72,857	101,156	69,868	52,038	49,435	50,685	59,088	51,270
1601 Violation of privacy, peace and honour 24;34a	10,300	10,081	10,308	31,784	12,369	4,475	4,052	4,161	4,217	4,577
1609 Environmental offences 48, 34a	465	518	464	526	411	160	222	182	185	199
1612 Offences involving narcotics 50:1-4 total	27,777	29,140	32,307	37,077	28,212	23,899	26,080	26,300	34,137	27,449
16125 Unlawful use of narcotics 50:2a	17,069	19,284	21,074	23,785	19,295	15,700	17,735	18,388	22,370	18,626

14.01.2022

Municipal parking supervision

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
01 Parking fines total (number)	628,999	597,183	594,140	519,218	537,778
011 Parking fines issued by the police (number)	4,926	5,046	4,912	4,021	4,032
02 Parking fines issued on the basis of the Road Traffic Act (number)	558,716	533,971	490,277	469,687	456,424
021 Parking fines issued by the police on the basis of the Road Traffic Act (number)	4,305	4,281	4,489	3,814	3,791
03 Parking fines issued on the basis of the Cross-Country Traffic Act (number)	14,834	11,362	10,027	9,971	8,234
031 Parking fines issued by the police on the basis of the Cross-Country Traffic Act (number)	26	95	47	49	86
04 Parking fines issued on the basis of the Rescue Act (number)	3,834	1,697	1,324	1,831	1,657
041 Parking fines issued by the police on the basis of the Rescue Act (number)	118	122	114	126	32
05 Parking fines issued on the basis of the idling infraction (number)	140	165	107	110	171
051 Parking fines issued by the police on the basis of the idling infraction (number)	7	7	5	11	11
06 Raised parking fines (number)	202,539	190,647	183,081	177,927	182,493
07 Written complaints (number)	30,845	35,143	34,954	31,861	33,383
08 Decisions on wheel clamping (number)	5	9	20	18	13
09 Removed due to parking error (number)	4,279	3,917	4,665	5,123	4,858
091 Removed to storage due to parking error (number)	4,102	4,247	3,836	4,336	3,366
10 Parking fines in recovery proceedings (number)	68,455	69,853	69,146	65,815	70,212
11 Number of demands for rectification	40,573	41,261	42,019	36,189	40,749
12 Revenue from parking fines (EUR)	33,785,736	31,715,887	30,449,998	27,982,763	28,461,257

19.01.2023

Offences recorded according to the wellbeing services county

Month

Wellbeing services county

	Cumulative annual sum (number)	Change from the previous year's cumulative sum (number)	Change from the previous year's cumulative sum (%)
Offences and infractions total	491,718	-9,680	-1.9
1 Offences against penal code	473,064	-9,529	-2.0
11 Offences against property	227,558	3,915	1.8
1101 Total of thefts 28:1-3	127,183	-608	-0.5
1101a1 Thefts, through unlawful breaking into a residence or summer house etc	3,594	-302	-7.8
1109 Robbery 31:1-2 total	2,335	442	23.3
1116 Fraud, petty fraud 36:1,3	35,579	1,117	3.2
1118 Means of payment fraud, petty means of payment fraud, preparation thereof 37:8,10,11	10,741	4,638	76.0
12 B Crimes against life and health	40,040	3,515	9.6
1201 Offences against life total 21:1-3,34a:1	85	2	2.4
12012 Attempted manslaughter, murder or killing 21:1-3,34a:1	353	-21	-5.6
1204 Assault offences, total 21:5-7,34a:1§1/6	37,880	3,757	11.0
13 Sexual crimes	5,423	47	0.9
1301 Sexual abuse of a child, aggravated sexual abuse of a child, aggravated rape of a child 20:6-7, 7b	2,326	237	11.3
1302 Rape, aggravated rape, rape (3 mom) 20:1-2	1,678	-173	-9.3
1303 Other sexual crimes 20:4-5,5a, 8-9	1,419	-17	-1.2
14 Crimes against public authority and public peace	14,769	2,030	15.9
15 Traffic offences	118,868	-15,574	-11.6
1503 Drunken driving 23:3-4 total	16,270	-1,100	-6.3
16 Other offences against the Penal Code	66,406	-3,462	-5.0
16125 Unlawful use of narcotics 50:2a	17,155	-2,140	-11.1
2 Other Acts	18,654	-151	-0.8

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Releases

Number of recorded robberies grew by 23.3 per cent in 2022

Number of recorded means of payment frauds grew by 85 per cent in January to September 2022

Cases of domestic violence against minors reported to the authorities increased by 6.7 per cent

Number of assaults in restaurants on pre-Covid level

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Property reported as stolen in theft offences

uspects by the sex of the victim

Offences known to the authorities (number) ICCS classification

Offences known to the authorities according to the municipality of offence

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Offences recorded and their solving

Municipal parking supervision

Offences recorded according to the wellbeing services county

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