The Finnish Police Federation ( fi, Suomen Poliisijärjestöjen Liitto, SPJL) is a trade union representing police and associated workers in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

. The union was founded in 1923. in 1945 it affiliated to the

Finnish Federation of Trade Unions The Finnish Federation of Trade Unions ( fi, Suomen Ammattiyhdistysten Keskusliitto, SAK) was a national trade union centre in Finland. The federation was established in 1930, after the Finnish Trade Union Federation (SAJ) was banned. Its initial ...

(SAK), but it left in 1956. In 1969, it joined the SAK's successor, the

Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions The Central Organisation of Finnish Trade Unions, usually referred to by the acronym SAK ( fi, Suomen Ammattiliittojen Keskusjärjestö; sv, Finlands Fackförbunds Centralorganisation, FFC) is the largest trade union confederation in Finland. Its ...

. By 1984, it was unhappy with the federation's links to the

Social Democratic Party The name Social Democratic Party or Social Democrats has been used by many political parties in various countries around the world. Such parties are most commonly aligned to social democracy as their political ideology. Active parties Fo ...

, so it transferred to the

Confederation of Salaried Employees The Confederation of Salaried Employees ( fi, Toimihenkilö- ja virkamiesjärjestöjen Keskusliitto, TVK) was a national trade union centre in Finland. The federation was established in 1917, as the Henkisen Työn Keskusliitto. It was refounded in ...

(TVK). By 1992, it had grown to 12,940 members. However, that year the TVK went bankrupt, and the union transferred to the

Finnish Confederation of Professionals The Finnish Confederation of Professionals (STTK) ( fi, Toimihenkilökeskusjärjestö, sv, Tjänstemannacentralorganisationen) is a trade union confederation in Finland. It has a membership of 650,000 and represents salaried employees in Finland ...

(STTK). In 1995, the Finnish Criminal Police Union, and the Finnish Police Confederation merged into the union, while in 2002, the Finnish Emergency Response Officers' Union was established as a section of the SPJL. In 2016, the union moved federation again, leaving the STTK, and joining the

Confederation of Unions for Professional and Managerial Staff in Finland The Confederation of Unions for Professional and Managerial Staff in Finland (Akava) is a trade union confederation in Finland representings employees with university-level, professional or other high-level training. It has 36 affiliated unions w ...

. As of 2020, the union has about 11,000 members, including 90% of serving police officers in Finland.

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* {{authority control Police unions Trade unions in Finland Trade unions established in 1923