Tampere Police Station

Tampere Police Station viewed from the Hatanpää Highway in March 2021

The Tampere Police Station (or the Tampere Central Police Station; Finnish: Tampereen poliisitalo, Swedish: Tammerfors polishus) is a police station located in the Ratina district in Tampere, Finland, and also the administrative center of the Central Finland Police Department [fi]. The police station is also used by the Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO).[1] There are about 400 police officers working there and about 50 others. The police station consists of two buildings located near the Tampere Bus Station along the Hatanpää Highway and Sorinkatu streets;[2][3][4] due to this, in Tampere colloquially, the police station and its surroundings are also known as Sori by locals.[5][6]

The station is owned by Senate Properties.[7]

History

The oldest, three-storey building of the police building was designed by architect Pekka Ilveskoski [fi] and was completed on the Hatanpää Highway in 1963. The five-storey part on Sorinkatu dates from 1993 and was designed by architect Osmo Lappo [fi]. The old and new sides of the police station are connected by gateways that run under and over Sorinkatu.[3][8][9]

In 1919–1963, before the completion of the current premises, the Tampere Police Station operated in the building of the former City Hotel [fi] (Kaupunginhotelli) on the Kauppakatu street.[10][11]

See also

• List of police departments in Finland
• Tampere Central Fire Station
• Tampere University Hospital

Sources

References

1. "Suojelupoliisin yhteystiedot". supo.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved November 20, 2021.
2. "Tampereen keskustan rakennettu kulttuuriympäristö 2012: Liite 1 – Arvokkaat rakennetut kulttuuriympäristöt" (PDF). A-Insinöörit Suunnittelu Oy (in Finnish). Tampere: City of Tampere. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
3. Järvelä, Kaisa (November 9, 2020). "Pääsimme kurkistamaan Tampereen remontoidulle pääpoliisiasemalle – Tältä näyttää juoppoputkassa: "Väkivallan uhka paljon suurempi kuin poliisivankilassa"". Aamulehti (in Finnish). Retrieved November 20, 2021.
4. Mansikka, Heli (March 16, 2018). "Tampereen uusi poliisitalo saattaa nousta Nekalaan – alustavia keskusteluja kaupungin kanssa käyty". YLE (in Finnish). Retrieved November 20, 2021.
5. "Tampereen keskustan rakennettu kulttuuriympäristö 2012" (PDF). A-Insinöörit Suunnittelu Oy (in Finnish). Tampere: City of Tampere. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
6. Jari Niemelä (2008). Tamperelaisen Tiedon Portaat: Tampereen asiat aasta yyhyn (in Finnish). Tampere: The Tampere Society (Tampere-Seura). p. 152, 182. ISBN 978-952-5558-05-0.
7. Hemminki, Kari (April 27, 2018). "Tampereen poliisitalo käyttöikänsä päässä". Keskisuomalainen (in Finnish). Retrieved November 20, 2021.
8. "Asemakaavan asettaminen nähtäville, XVIII kaupunginosa-2:17, Sorinkatu 6–8, rautatiealueen muuttaminen kerrostalokortteliksi, kartta 8201" (PDF) (in Finnish). Tampere: City of Tampere. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
9. Helasvuo, Olli; Svartström, Niina; Mustonen, Tapani. "Sisäasiainministeriön toimitalo ja Valtioneuvoston paviljonki: Rakennushistoriaselvitys ja arkkitehtuurianalyysi" (PDF). Arkkitehdit Mustonen Oy (in Finnish). Helsinki: Senate Properties. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
10. "Terveisiä putkasta". Aamulehti (in Finnish). June 13, 1919. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
11. Antti Liuttunen (2018). Kadonneet kaunottaret: Tampereen rakennushistoriaa (in Finnish). Tampere: Museums of Tampere. p. 249. ISBN 978-951-609-935-7.

External links

• Tampere Main Police Station at the official site of the Police of Finland
  • Licence services
  • Lost property
  • Police matters
• Sorin poliisiasema (Komisario Koskisen Tampere) at Visit Tampere (in Finnish)

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