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The Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo) is an agency of the Ministry of the Interior that operates in Finland and abroad. Its mission is to ward off and combat the most serious threats to national security.
The Finnish Security Intelligence Service (Supo) is an agency of the Ministry of the Interior that operates in Finland and abroad. Its mission is to ward off and combat the most serious threats to national security.
Supo is headed by a Director supported by two Deputy Directors. The Service has nine departments.
Supo employed about 580 people in various operational and specialist capacities in 2023. This and other statistics are available on this web page.
Supo employs about 500 people. Various occupational groups are presented, such as police, analysts, IT-experts and translators.
Suojelupoliisi has grown from a small and subdued agency into an international security and intelligence service with a staff of more than four hundred people.
Do you wish to use Supo’s documents as a source for your research? Supo grants research permits mainly for PhD-level scientific research.
