The city s Deputy Chief of Police denies profiling but admits mistakes were made.
Deputy Police Chief of the Helsinki Police Department, Heikki Kopperoinen
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The Helsinki Police Department has been systematically engaging in activities that suggest ethnic profiling, according to information received by Yle.
Over the course of several years, the police department kept a record of the movements of the Finnish Roma community in the Helsinki metropolitan area, taking note of vehicles owned by Roma people and the social circles in which they moved.
Log entries also included other information, such as knives or other weapons found in a person s possession.