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moving back after Weapon evacuation 

those who were evacuated on Thursday in Malmängen in Vanda can now move back. The place was evacuated because the police found 150 weapons spread around in a apartments. They also found bullets, gunpowder and granites. The owner had only legal license for  a few of the guns and is now arrested.

- Gosh, there is to much wepons and hate in this world

Police to set up national shoe print register

Finnish police plan to set up an archive of copies of shoe prints during the remainder of the present year. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) believe that the shoe print register, to be set up alongside the national fingerprint and DNA registers, will help solve burglaries and thefts.
      The NBI has been planning on a national shoe print register already since the 1990s, and for the past few years, it has been working on the right kind of programme for the purpose. Now it is ready.
     
In the future, pictures of shoe printsare to be placed in an NBI electronic database, to which police departments around the country will have access.
      “As far as I know, no other country has such a networked footwear print register in use. Individual PC systems exist, but they are on a small scale”, says Kimmo Himberg, head of the NBI’s crime laboratory.
     
Police in Finland have long taken shoe prints at crime scenes, and used them as evidence in court, but most prints have remained unrecorded electronically for further use.
      Only a few large police units around Finland have set up databases of shoe prints for their own use. The information in these local databases is to be brought together to form the foundation of the new national register.
      “There are, perhaps, a few hundred shoe prints – at most a few thousand”, Himberg says.
     
Police are being taught to use the new register. Not all local police forces are sure if it is worth giving employees who already have a very heavy workload the additional task of transferring crime scene evidence that they have collected into a register.
      The benefits of a shoe print register are reduced by the fact that a criminal can simply discard the shoes used during the crime. However, a fingerprint or DNA trace can be used to track down a criminal decades after the crime.
      Himberg believes that police will use the new shoe print register mainly in investigating theft and other property crime. It can also be used in the investigation of homicides.

- if you ask me that is a bit weird, what if they burn or get new shoes?  

Fathers Taking Paternity Leave

New fathers in Finland are taking paternity leave .more frequentlyAccording to the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela), the number of men who stay home to care for their children has risen by one-quarter over the past ten years. Six perecent of paid parental leave days are now taken by dads. Last year, 51,200 fathers were granted parental leave support, an increase of 26 percent from 1998. During the same period, the number of mothers taking the support increased by just two percent. Kela has tried to encourage fathers to use paternity leave by improving benefits and flexibility of leave. Parental support is paid to either the mother or father, depending on which parent stays home to care for the child.

a stay home dad is so sexy

Iphone is coming to Finland!

Telia Sonera will start selling Apple Iphones in Finland and in the other Northern countries

 - woho!  Now I can get it(when I get enough money)without having to decode and stuff