Thu, 21 May, 2015 12:06:51 AM FTimes Report, May 21  Coercive measures of the police, customs and border guard in 2005 to 2014. Source: Statistics on offences and coercive measures 2014. Statistics Finland. The police, customs and border guard used coercive measures 196,700 times in 2014, which was 6.4 per cent lower than one year before, according to Statistics Finland.
Nearly one-third of the coercive measures were apprehensions based on the Police Act, known as taking intoxicated persons into custody, where it is a question of ensuring the safety of the person or his or her environment.
Other types of coercive measures were almost always connected to investigating the guilt of a suspect or ensuring the criminal process.
At the beginning of 2014, new coercive measures, like search of data contained in a device and search of premises came into force.
A search of data contained in a device refers to a search directed to the data content contained in a computer, a terminal end device or in another corresponding technical device or information system.
A total of 4,200 such searches were carried out. A search of premises refers to a search conducted elsewhere than in a public place but not a domicile.
Searches of premises numbered 4,800, most of which were carried out to find an object or property to be confiscated, the data show.
The number of intoxicated persons taken into custody was 61,300 in 2014, which is 10.4 per cent lower than in 2013.
Taking intoxicated persons into custody is a coercive measure based on the Police Act, where the object of the coercive measure is usually not suspected of an offence.
In addition to taking intoxicated persons into custody, other main coercive measures include apprehension or arrest of a suspect in an offence, bodily search and physical examination and possible confiscation related to them.
In 2014, some 25,000 apprehensions were made, which is 9.9 per cent lower than in the year before.
The number of arrests was 9,150, down by 960 cases from one year earlier.
The number of bodily searches and physical examinations and possible confiscations related to them decreased by 8.6 per cent from the previous year.
Confiscations and house searches possibly made in their connection numbered 38,500, which was 7,800 cases or 16.8 per cent lower than in the year before.
In all, 8,500 examinations of state of intoxication with a precision breathalyser were recorded, which was 11.1 per cent fewer than in 2013.
The number of examinations of state of intoxication with a blood test was 11,300 in 2014, which was 3.1 per cent more than in 2013. The numbers were relatively low for other types of coercive measures.
A total of 24,800 coercive measures were directed to women, being 12.6 per cent of all coercive measures, according to the statistics.
Women's shares were small in all types of coercive measures.
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