Police threat-informed criminal intelligence to be strengthened

The proposal supplements an earlier government proposal submitted to Parliament in June 2026, which introduces provisions to the Police Act on threat-informed criminal intelligence conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation. Threat-informed criminal intelligence is criminal intelligence in which intelligence collection and analysis are directed at detecting and countering threats posed by serious crime, not at preventing and investigating individual offences. “The threats posed by serious crime are rapidly becoming more serious. The proposed new intelligence collection methods would significantly enhance police intelligence collection and thus help counter threats in rapidly evolving situations,” says Minister of the Interior Mari Rantanen . Under the proposed provisions, the powers used in threat-informed criminal intelligence would be expanded to include criminal intelligence methods whose use would require amendments to the limitation clauses of section 10 of the Constitution. These amendments would concern the right to respect for home and the protection of confidential communications. Consequently, the compatibility of these supplementary provisions with the Constitutio

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