Crime prevention – We combat cross-border crime

The Border Guard combats, reveals and investigates cross-border crime.

The Border Guard’s focus in crime prevention is in combatting irregular migration and trafficking in human beings. By investigating crime, we also combat organised cross-border crime. 

Crime prevention is a part of the fourth step in control of entry into the Schengen area, that is to say, measures in the territory of Member States.   

More than 90% of the irregular migrants who entered Finland entered via the internal borders.   The Border Guard investigates more than 90% of the offences relating to facilitation of irregular migration. In 2025, a total of 71 suspected cases of facilitation of irregular migration were registered, and a third of these are suspected to being connected to organised crime.  

The Act on Crime Prevention by the Border Guard was amended as of 1 September 2025 – trafficking in human beings was included as an independent offence in criminal cases to be investigated by the Border Guard. This amendment to the legislation improves our changes to combat trafficking in human beings.