Legislation on combating organised crime sent out for comments
The Ministry of the Interior has sent out for comments a draft government proposal for legislation on combating organised crime. The proposed act would lay down provisions on a new centre for the analysis of organised crime and on the centre’s tasks and powers. The deadline for submitting comments is 3 August 2026.
The objective of the project is to protect society and individuals from serious and organised crime by enhancing information exchange and analysis activities and by strengthening the administrative approach to combating organised crime. The administrative approach to combating organised crime means, for example, that the authorities target their administrative supervision and inspections in a new way and take organised crime into account in different kinds of permit processes. The aim is to prevent organised crime actors from exploiting society’s legal structures, such as the business sector and public finances. The legislative proposal is based on an entry in the Government Programme.
“Attempts to infiltrate the legal structures of our society are part of the operating logic of criminal groups. The legislative proposal seeks to combat organised crime by enhancing the exchange and processing of information. When the authorities' operating conditions and powers are in order, we will be able to respond to the constantly changing activities of criminal groups more effectively than before,” says Minister of the Interior Mari Rantanen.
New analysis centre to combat organised crime
In the draft proposal, the Government proposes the establishment of a centre for the analysis of organised crime.
The task of the new analysis centre would be to produce and maintain situational awareness of organised crime at national level. The centre could classify groups and individuals with connections to organised crime. It would, both upon request and on its own initiative, issue other authorities with statements and opinions that they could utilise when considering whether to grant and revoke different permits.
In addition, the centre would disclose information on organised crime and identify, develop and share best practices, procedures and work methods in the fight against organised crime.
The centre would have an extensive right to obtain information necessary for the performance of its duties from both public authorities and private parties. Provisions on the right of the analysis centre to access, process, store and disclose information for the performance of its duties would be laid down in the act.
Analysis centre would operate in connection with the National Bureau of Investigation
The National Bureau of Investigation would be the leading authority of the analysis centre with responsibility for steering, coordinating and developing the centre's activities. The other authorities represented in the centre would be the Police, Finnish Customs, the Finnish Border Guard, the Prison and Probation Service of Finland, the Finnish Immigration Service, the National Enforcement Authority Finland, the Finnish Tax Administration, the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, the Finnish Supervisory Agency and the Social Insurance Institution of Finland.
Inquiries:
Suvi Pato-Oja, Chief Specialist, tel. +358 295 488 379, [email protected]
Markus Terenius, Assistant Police Director, tel. +358 295 486 840, [email protected]