Police organisation
Keskusrikospoliisi
Finland’s national criminal-investigation police unit, one of the police agencies the interior ministry lists beneath the National Police Board.
At a glance
- Official name
- Keskusrikospoliisi
- Commonly rendered in English as
- National Bureau of Investigation — a rendering in common use, not the organisation’s own name.
- System
- Finland
- Level of government
- National
- Kind of body
- Criminal investigation agency
- Status
- Currently operating
- Facts last checked against sources
- 13 September 2026
What it is
The Ministry of the Interior names the Keskusrikospoliisi among the Finnish police agencies, alongside the local police departments, the Police University College and the Security Intelligence Service. It is published here on that basis: a national unit distinct from the local departments, within the same police service.
What it covers
National, within the Finnish police service.
Broad responsibilities
- A national police agency within the Finnish police service
Elsewhere on this site
- Who polices what — how Finland is structured, against other systems
Other organisations to compare
- Poliisihallitus — Finland
Where this connects
Institutions: National police.
Sources
Police (and agencies and responsibilities)
Ministry of the Interior, Finland (sisäministeriö / inrikesministeriet) · Government publication · link verified 2026-07-26
The Ministry of the Interior's English police pages, read directly and re-confirmed. Supports that "the Ministry of the Interior guides and directs the police service, and prepares related legislation" — placing the police under a DIFFERENT ministry from the courts, prosecution and prisons (which are under the Ministry of Justice) — and that the National Police Board (Poliisihallitus) guides and directs operational police activities. Lists the police agencies: the National Police Board, the local police departments (11 on the mainland), the National Bureau of Investigation (Keskusrikospoliisi), the Police University College and the Finnish Security Intelligence Service.