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were the service agreement with the Finn- ish Government Shared Services Centre for Finance and HR (Palkeet), and other service purchases between government agencies.
The increase in the number of asylum seekers was evident as increased costs, incurred by,
for example, removals from country and travel. Travel costs increased by around EUR 3 million from the previous year. The number of removals from the country almost doubled from the previous year. Almost EUR 10 million of the appropriation reserved for removal from the country and transport was used.
In 2016, the overall expenses of the police totalled EUR 794 million, down by around EUR 29 million from the 2015 level.
The new police building Pollari, constructed
in Kotka according to the new police building concept, opened its doors to customers at 08.00 hours on 19 December 2016.
The expenses were generated by the different functions as follows:
• monitoring EUR 141 million,
• emergency operations EUR 173 million, • crime prevention EUR 344 million,
• licence services EUR 71 million, and
• other tasks EUR 65 million.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTRE POLIT ESTABLISHED AT THE NATIONAL POLICE BOARD
The police carried out the transfer of the ICT services for the various police operations and the personnel required in their production from the ICT Agency Haltik to the Information Technology Centre of the Police (POLIT Centre) established on 1 April 2016 as part of the National Police Board.
The rst part of the overall information system that will make the operational processes of the police and other security and judicial authori- ties harmonised and more ef cient (VITJA) was speci ed, planned and implemented; the aim is to have it approved and deployed in 2017. The second part comprises the basic function- alities of the system's application development platform, entry of observation data, and the intelligence system.
The implementation of the common eld command system used by various authorities (KEJO) continued with the second part delivery of the system, and the acceptance testing of the rst part delivery was completed.
The process changes required by the Penal Fee Act reform were implemented in the informa- tion systems of the police.
The development of operative mobile applica- tions designed for smartphones was launched with regard to the functionalities chosen for the rst-phase testing.
In addition to the development of the existing e-services, support for submitting electronic
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