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2021

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• Number of coercive measures performed went down by 11.6 per cent (25.2.2022)

4th quarter

• Number of offences against property decreased by 13.6 per cent (19.1.2022)

3rd quarter

• Number of sexual offences recorded grew by 20 per cent (15.10.2021)

2nd quarter

• Number of sexual offences recorded grew by 27 per cent (14.7.2021)

1st quarter

• Number of assaults decreased by 13.4 per cent (16.4.2021)

2020

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• Recorded cases of domestic violence against minors decreased by 14 per cent (1.6.2021)

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• Number of coercive measures performed went up by 3 per cent (26.2.2021)

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• Number of motor vehicle thefts has fallen, number of narcotics offences is growing (12.5.2021)

4th quarter

• Number of property offences increased by 16.9 per cent (19.1.2021)

3rd quarter

• Number of break-ins into houses growing (16.10.2020)

2nd quarter

• Number of assaults in restaurants halved in the early part of the year (14.7.2020)

1st quarter

• Recorded number of offences against property growing (17.4.2020)

2019

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• Women made up 76.8 per cent of adult victims of domestic violence and intimate partner violence (2.6.2020)

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• Number of coercive measures performed unchanged from the previous year (28.2.2020)

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• Number of women as injured parties to offences has grown, men still have a majority (14.5.2020)

4th quarter

• Number of offences against property on the rise (17.1.2020)

3rd quarter

• Break-ins into houses most common in summer months (17.10.2019)

2nd quarter

• Drunken driving focuses on summer months (12.7.2019)

1st quarter

• Nearly 30 per cent more rapes and sexual abuses of a child were recorded (17.4.2019)

2018

Domestic violence and intimate partner violence

• Among adults, 76.5 per cent of victims of domestic violence and intimate partner violence were women (6.6.2019)

Coercive measures

• Number of coercive measures on level with the previous year (28.2.2019)

Reported offences, 1st quarter

• Foreigners more often suspects of offences than Finns (16.5.2019)

4th quarter

• Number of sexual offences recorded grew by 13.8 per cent in 2018 (17.1.2019)

3rd quarter

• Number of reported sexual offences went up by 16.6 per cent in January to September 2018 (18.12.2018)

2nd quarter

• Reported number of crimes against life and health decreased by 4.3 per cent in January to June 2018 (18.9.2018)

1st quarter

• Reported number of crimes against life and health decreased by 8.7 per cent in January to March 2018 (14.6.2018)

2017

Domestic violence and intimate partner violence

• Share of cases of domestic violence and intimate partner violence between married and cohabiting couples falling (31.5.2018)

Coercive measures

• Examinations to detect narcotics use on the rise (28.2.2018)

Reported offences, 1st quarter

• Share of young people suspected of offences against property declining (8.5.2018)

4th quarter

• Number of sexual harassment cases recorded decreased by 22.6 per cent, the number of rapes grew by 6 per cent (16.3.2018)

3rd quarter

• Recorded number of motor vehicle thefts is falling (19.10.2017)

2nd quarter

• Number of reported rapes growing (13.7.2017)

1st quarter

• Number of reported rapes growing (20.4.2017)

2016

Domestic violence and intimate partner violence

• Violence between married or cohabiting couples made up 40.6 per cent of domestic and intimate partner violence (31.5.2017)

Coercive measures

• Number of searches of data contained in a device growing (31.5.2017)

Reported offences, 1st quarter

• Victims of crimes committed by persons with foreign background are often also of foreign background (23.3.2017)

4th quarter

• Number of reported sexual offences growing (19.1.2017)

3rd quarter

• Number of means of payment frauds growing heavily (18.10.2016)

2nd quarter

• Number of means of payment frauds growing heavily (13.7.2016)

1st quarter

• Number of means of payment frauds growing heavily (20.4.2016)

2015

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• Nearly 70 per cent of victims of domestic violence and intimate partner violence were women (30.5.2016)

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• Police, customs and border guard used coercive measures 197,600 times in 2015 (18.5.2016)

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• Drunken driving caused by narcotic substances increased by 19.7 per cent (22.3.2016)

4th quarter

• Number of frauds and means of payment frauds increased in 2015 (19.1.2016)

3rd quarter

• Altogether, 2.3 per cent fewer offences and 4.7 per cent more cases of endangerment of traffic safety and traffic offences than in January to September 2014 (19.10.2015)

2nd quarter

• Altogether, 3.6 per cent fewer offences and 6.5 per cent more cases of endangerment of traffic safety than in January to June 2014 (16.7.2015)

1st quarter

• Number of offences declined by 6.8 per cent and that of endangerment of traffic safety grew by 10.3 per cent in January to March 2015 (21.4.2015)

2014

Domestic violence and intimate partner violence

• Around one-quarter of domestic violence and intimate partner violence was directed at children (28.5.2015)

Coercive measures

• Police, customs and border guard used coercive measures 196,700 times in 2014 (20.5.2015)

Reported offences, 1st quarter

• Number of victims of violent offences fell by 6.3 per cent (31.3.2015)