A police officer standing next to a police van during an exercise in Laajasalo, Helsinki, in March 2016. YLE on Monday reported that Helsinki Police Department has terminated a unit that specialised in preventing honour-based violence, a decision that seems to stand in stark contrast to ongoing public debate about means to address the phenomenon. (Vesa Moilanen – Lehtikuva)
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HELSINKI POLICE DEPARTMENT has pulled the plug on its effort to prevent honour-based violence, according to several members of the department interviewed by YLE.
Helsinki Police Department used to have a unit specialising in preventing honour-based violence by working together with immigrant families to create contacts with individuals who are believed to have been subjected to honour-based violence and other members of their family.
“Gradually we got to a place where these families started to trust that they’d receive help from society,” one
Source: www.helsinkitimes.fi
