The Tampere Police Station (or the Tampere Central Police Station;
Finnish: Tampereen poliisitalo,
Swedish: Tammerfors polishus) is a
police station located in the
Ratina district in
Tampere,
Finland, and also the administrative center of the
Central Finland Police Department [
fi]. The police station is also used by the
Finnish Security Intelligence Service (SUPO).[1] There are about 400
police officers working there and about 50 others. The police station consists of two buildings located near the
Tampere Bus Station along the Hatanpää Highway and Sorinkatu streets;[2][3][4] due to this, in Tampere colloquially, the police station and its surroundings are also known as Sori by locals.[5][6]
The oldest, three-storey building of the police building was designed by architect
Pekka Ilveskoski [
fi] and was completed on the Hatanpää Highway in 1963. The five-storey part on Sorinkatu dates from 1993 and was designed by architect
Osmo Lappo [
fi]. The old and new sides of the police station are connected by gateways that run under and over Sorinkatu.[3][8][9]
In 1919–1963, before the completion of the current premises, the Tampere Police Station operated in the building of the former
City Hotel [
fi] (Kaupunginhotelli) on the Kauppakatu street.[10][11]
^Jari Niemelä (2008). Tamperelaisen Tiedon Portaat: Tampereen asiat aasta yyhyn (in Finnish). Tampere: The Tampere Society (Tampere-Seura). p. 152, 182.
ISBN978-952-5558-05-0.