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The Tampere Police Station (or the Tampere Central Police Station; fi, Tampereen poliisitalo, sv, Tammerfors polishus) is a

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located in the

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district in

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

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, and also the administrative center of the . The police station is also used by the

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(SUPO). There are about 400

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s working there and about 50 others. The police station consists of two buildings located near the

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along the Hatanpää Highway and Sorinkatu streets; due to this, in Tampere colloquially, the police station and its surroundings are also known as ''Sori'' by locals. The station is owned by

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History

The oldest, three-storey building of the police building was designed by architect and was completed on the Hatanpää Highway in 1963. The five-storey part on Sorinkatu dates from 1993 and was designed by architect . The old and new sides of the police station are connected by gateways that run under and over Sorinkatu. In 1919–1963, before the completion of the current premises, the Tampere Police Station operated in the building of the former (''Kaupunginhotelli'') on the Kauppakatu street.

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* Tampere Main Police Station at the official site of the

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