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The program aims to improve local crime prevention.

The safety questionnaire directed to residents can be used in planning local crime prevention work.

Survey on crime prevention work by municipalities The National Council for Crime Prevention and the Association of Finnish Local and Regional Authorities conducted a survey to find out how crime prevention work is carried out in municipalities. On...

The safety walk is a way to get the residents, officials, organizations, companies and property owners as well as other central agents to meet each other and to talk about the unsafe or even dangerous areas within their living environment together with an expert.

The European Crime Prevention Award is monitored by the European Crime Prevention Network (EUCPN). Member countries participate with their best national crime prevention projects, concentrating on a theme which changes annually.

Challenges arising from migration situation Crime prevention review 2016 The review assessed what kind of impacts the migration situation has on safety. The crime prevention review 2016 focused on a theme that was highly topical in Finland that ye...

The goal of crime prevention is to decrease crime and increase security, but also to prevent harm caused by crime.

Nordic organisations for crime prevention have collaborated with each other already for a long time. The Nordic crime prevention organisations convene regularly to discuss topical issues in the field of crime prevention.

21.10.2025 | REPORTS AND GUIDELINES 55 2016 Working Together for Safer and More Secure Communities National Crime Prevention Programme Working Together for Safer and More Secure Communities National Crime Prevention Programme Reports and guidelines 55/2016 ISS...

21.10.2025 | REPORTS AND GUIDELINES 55 2016 Working Together for Safer and More Secure Communities National Crime Prevention Programme Working Together for Safer and More Secure Communities National Crime Prevention Programme Reports and guidelines 55/2016 ISS...

21.10.2025 | WORKING TOGETHER FOR A SAFE SOCIETY The National Crime Prevention Program Ministry of Justice The National Council for Crime Prevention Finland FOREWORD The Council of State of Finland took a decision in principle on a national crime prevention pr...

Example of a safety questionnaire Below are the questions of the local safety questionnaire and their response alternatives as well as possible explanations for the questions for copying by the organisers in the municipality. So this is not an ong...

16.4.2019 | A recent review drawn up by the National Council for Crime Prevention deals with the improvement of safety in the local environment and gives recommendations on how to take the crime prevention perspective into consideration in the planning and design of the built environment and how to engage residents in the planning process.

24.11.2016 | The National Crime Prevention Programme entitled Working Together for Safer and More Secure Communities, prepared by the National Council for Crime Prevention, aims to promote local cooperation to reduce and prevent crime and the harm caused by it as well as the risk of becoming a victim of crime. We can all take part in preventing crime and increasing safety and security in our communities.

27.6.2014 | Crime prevention at its best is created by increasing a sense of community and neighbourhood help, in which trust and interaction are essential. The working group on neighborhood help released their guidelines on May 23rd, which is the European Neighbours` Day. The group stated that safety is primarily created through trust and interaction instead of barbwires and surveillance cameras.

14.11.2017 | Neighbourhood help working group & guidelines in a nutshell. 23.5.2014 European neighbours´day in Helsinki Juha in memoriam Increasing the good will decrease the bad Neighbourhood help working group (2012-2014) set up by the Council for Crime Prev...

7.7.2014 | A summary of the council's annual report 2013

21.10.2025 | 1 Government Resolution on the action plan to prevent and tackle youth and gang-related crimes (2024–2027) Contents 1. GOVERNMENT PROGRAMME ENTRY AND PREPARATION OF THE ACTION PLAN ..................................... 1 2. YOUTH CRIME CONCERNS: V...

21.10.2025 | 1 Government Resolution on the action plan to prevent and tackle youth and gang-related crimes (2024–2027) Contents 1. GOVERNMENT PROGRAMME ENTRY AND PREPARATION OF THE ACTION PLAN ..................................... 1 2. YOUTH CRIME CONCERNS: V...

21.10.2025 | NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR REDUCING VIOLENCE IN FINLAND (Summary) 2 Contents 1. The Principles of the programme 2. Finnish Violence 2.1 The prevalence of violence in Finland – international comparisons 2.2 The development of violence in Finland 2.3 Al...