Our apartment block in Helsinki has a pelastustie that is regularly unusable because of people parking in front of it. Where can I report such parking offenses?

I tried googling, but it brings me only to the police. Is this the right place to report these? Because they are probably not counted as “crimes”, or are they?

And can I just take pictures of the offending car for proof?

In Germany, there is a useful Webservice that helps with the involved bureaucracy. Does something like this exist for Finland?

  • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    That’s managed by the city. They seem to have online form and a phone number for this kind of thing.

    You can take a photo but as far as I know it’s not really that useful since (as far as I know) photos from individuals can’t really be used to give tickets.

  • Alexander@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    Damn, when I lived in Helsinki, I got parking ticket for parking properly near my apt during the 5 min it took me to run home and send an email registering my plate for a list of tenant cars. Never thought someone would be asking this.

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    Unless the municipal enforcement covers your yard (in all likelihood they do not), it’s the land owner’s problem to have offending cars fined or towed. Many apartment companies subcontract this to commercial parking enforcement scams companies, but they won’t actually do much except stick “fines” (which legally speaking are not fines) on the windshield of offending cars. If a car has to be towed, they won’t do it AFAIK.

    So probably you would have to complain to the building administrator (isännöitsijä), who will likely proceed to not do anything about it until many other people complain too.

    If that fails, mild vandalism is always effective. Let the air out of the tyres at night (sticking a green lentil in the valve cap works wonders) and leave them a friendly note calling them a moron and an asshole.

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      4 days ago

      The cars park on the side of the road, public ground. It’s just that this public ground prevents for example ambulances to get on the plot.

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        In that case it is probably, though not certainly, the municipality’s job to keep that part of the street clear.