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
- 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 2026-09-19
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. CHANGED SINCE READ: automated checks on 2026-09-28 and 2026-10-05 found this page’s text different from the version read on 2026-09-19. It could not be read again: intermin.fi answered HTTP 403 to the request made in researching it on 2026-10-10, although the same host had served those checks. What changed is not known, and nothing here is restated from the changed page.