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5.2.2025 | The 112 Day campaign has issued instructions on calling the emergency number for the general public as well as children and young people, older people and foreign-language speakers. Learn more about the instructions and make use of the associated materials.

Exceptional circumstances Storms, for example, can quickly create exceptional circumstances that lead to multiple members of the public calling the emergency number simultaneously. These kinds of sudden peaks in the number of calls can momentarily...

112 Day How to instruct different target groups in calling the emergency number The 112 Day campaign has issued instructions on calling the emergency number for the general public as well as children and young people, older people and foreign-lang...

20.4.2023 | The European Emergency Number Association EENA awarded a Finnish emergency response centre operator for outstanding work in assisting a person that had fallen through the ice in the wilderness. Finland’s emergency response centres are built around the professionalism of ERC operators and cooperation between authorities, and the case demonstrates the effectiveness of this approach.

RSS (Opens New Window) (Opens New Window) Incident Notifications 20.05.2026 Mainentance Maintenance work on forms at 112.fi website 20.05.2026 From 09:00 - 16:00 14.01.2026 Mainentance Maintenance work on forms at 112.fi website 14.01.2026 From 19...

14.8.2025 | Only approximately half of Finns know that the emergency number 112 works in all EU countries. When you call 112 in an EU member state, the call is always routed to a local emergency response centre.

Material Location forms How to use ERC number 112 Suomi application Location forms - other languages: EN, EE, FRA, GE, RU En cas d’urgence 0.06MB pdf Location form in French. The position information of the holiday home must be stored in a visible...

MATERIALS How to organise a 112 day event (pdf) 0.56MB pdf Organise your own event and share your safety tips with others! Anyone can organise an event – either live or virtual! Download En cas d’urgence 0.06MB pdf Location form in French. The pos...

ERC services 112 Suomi -application 112 Suomi is a mobile application for calling the emergency services and for emergency geolocation. More about application Urgent emergency? In Finland we use only one emergency number, 112. You can call the eme...

116 000 - The Missing Child Hotline The Missing Child Hotline is intended for non-urgent calls. In an emergency, always call the emergency number 112. Call the Missing Child Hotline when you need to ask for advice in cases that involve a missing c...

The 112 Day will be celebrated again on the 11th of February The 112 Day is a Finnish nationwide campaign to raise people’s awareness of what everyday safety is and how it can be promoted. The day has traditionally been a joint event for different...

11.3.2025 | The growth in the foreign-language population is reflected in the number of interpreted emergency calls. The demand for Ukrainian interpretation, for example, has increased significantly over the past few years.

11.2.2025 | In 2024, the Emergency Response Centre Agency received an average of 7,600 emergency calls every day. Of these calls, 1,600 should not have been made to the emergency response centre. Roughly one half of the calls were passed on to authorities while the other half were handled by the emergency response centre operator through guidance and advice. The average time in which an emergency call was picked up was seven seconds.

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28.1.2025 | Teaching children how to use the emergency number correctly is a safety action. It is important to talk to children about identifying emergencies and encourage them to report an emergency.

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9.6.2024 | The Emergency Response Centre Administration is participating in an EU project that improves the visibility of the missing children help system. A key theme of the project is teaching children how to correctly use the emergency number.

30.1.2026 | During adolescence, risk taking and peer pressure are often heightened, and sometimes situations can escalate into danger. The aim of the 112 Day campaign is to strengthen young men’s ability to recognize emergencies and encourage them to act.

28.3.2025 | The Emergency Response Centre Agency’s guidelines for handling prehospital emergency care tasks were revised at the end of November 2023. The change is reflected in the number of tasks assigned to prehospital emergency care and in their priority distribution.

5.1.2026 | Paula has been working for the Emergency Response Centre Agency for ten years: first as a communications specialist for nine years and then as a wellbeing at work specialist from the start of 2024. By looking after staff wellbeing, she feels that she is doing meaningful work and is able to indirectly contribute to the safety of Finland as a whole.