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FINNISH POLICE CHIEF ADMITS IN OFFICIAL DENIAL, POLICY OF OMITTING ASYLUM SEEKING STATUS OF SUSPECTED PERPS…….

Get this attempt at verbal gymnastics: 

According to Saarni, crimes committed by asylum seekers will be reported just as those committed by others. If the person who committed the crime is an asylum seeker, that’s not mentioned just as the ethnic background of a person who has committed a crime is not mentioned.

So they are in fact keeping mum about the asylum seeking background of these suspected perps. The story stands, verified by the police chief denying the initial claim. Official police policy demands it, kudos to the Uusi Lahti paper for accurate journalism.

Police chief denies charge of keeping mum about criminals who are asylum seekers

Uusi Lahti newspaper claims that the Häme Police Department circulated an internal memo forbidding police to report whether a crime was committed by an asylum seeker. Police Chief Tapio Saarni says that’s not the case and that police are following normal procedures that forbid reporting a person’s ethnic background when information about a crime is made public.

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When a crime is committed, police don’t report ethnic background or asylum seeker status — unless there’s a reason to do so. Image: Nina Keski-Korpela / Yle

An article in Uusi Lahti newspaper claims the Häme Police Department circulated an internal memo instructing police officers that they were forbidden from reporting whether a crime was committed by an asylum seeker.

Häme Police Department Police Chief Tapio Saarni says that’s not the case.

“The newspaper’s headline was over the top and incorrect,” says Saarni. “We have not made any changes to our communications policy, we only reminded our staff that a person’s ethnic background should not be reported — unless there is a good reason — when issuing information about a crime,” he says.

According to Saarni, crimes committed by asylum seekers will be reported just as those committed by others. If the person who committed the crime is an asylum seeker, that’s not mentioned just as the ethnic background of a person who has committed a crime is not mentioned.

“Ethnic background is only reported if it holds some significance. In each case, it’s important to be very careful,” he says, adding that reporting ethnic background is not part of normal police communications.

The Police Board’s Head of Communications Marko Luotonen agrees.

“Nothing in police communications has changed, the police follow the laws regarding these issues and according to the law, refugee status is secret information and the police are not allowed to publicise it,” says Luotonen.

YLE

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