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Finnish Customs (Finnish: Tulli, Swedish: Tull) is the customs service of the Republic of Finland. It is a government agency steered by the Ministry of Finance . The Finnish Customs is a part of the customs system of the European Union and has around 1,900 employees.
The agency acts as a coast guard, border guard, sea rescue organisation and a customs service. Though it is a civilian service, agents are armed. In France, it is commonly known as "les douanes", which means customs ("la douane" is a border checkpoint). Agents are referred to as "douaniers", which means customs officers.
The Customs also occasionally enforces laws such as fuel taxes and vehicle traffic-worthiness, without connection to imported goods. Police, Customs and Border Guard have close inter-agency cooperation. PCB (police, border guard and customs) is a scheme for cooperation between the police, border guard and customs. In a PCB patrol, there is a ...
A customs officer in Amsterdam Airport Schiphol checks the luggage of an incoming traveler. Vienna Convention road sign for customs. Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal effects, and hazardous items, into and out of a country.
The Finnish Border Guard (FBG, [1] Finnish: Rajavartiolaitos, RVL; [2] Swedish: Gränsbevakningsväsendet, GBV) [3] is the agency responsible for enforcing the security of Finland's borders. It is a military organisation, subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior in administrative issues and to the president of Finland in issues pertaining to ...
Küstenwache: Coast Guard, it is not separate agency, it consists of units compiled of ships and personnel of the Federal Police, Customs Service, the Wasser und Schifffahrtsverwaltung des Bundes (WSV) (Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration) and the Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE) (Federal Agency for Agriculture ...
Finnish police vans with visible bilingual markings. The most common patrol vehicle of police in Finland is Volkswagen Transporter, usually with 2.5 L diesel engines. In 2002 about one third of Finnish police cars were Transporters. [24] Transporters are also used by border guards, customs, and sotilaspoliisi (military police). Due to the ...
Somali speaking population in Finland has grown from zero to 21,000 between 1990 and 2018. 55% of Somalis in Finland are unemployed, the highest of any ethnic group in Finland. In 2014, Finland took 1,030 quota refugees, and an additional 3,651 people sought asylum.