Police organisation
Suojelupoliisi
One of the police agencies the Finnish interior ministry lists — a security-intelligence service inside the police structure rather than outside it.
At a glance
- Official name
- Suojelupoliisi (Supo)
- Commonly rendered in English as
- Finnish Security Intelligence Service — a rendering in common use, not the organisation’s own name.
- System
- Finland
- Level of government
- National
- Kind of body
- Specialist national service
- Status
- Currently operating
- Facts last checked against sources
- 13 September 2026
What it is
Finland places its security intelligence service among the police agencies rather than in a separate civilian intelligence apparatus. That placement is the fact worth knowing: countries differ sharply on whether security intelligence is a police function, and Finland’s answer is legible from the ministry’s own list.
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.