In his decisions concerning two separate complaints, Parliamentary Ombudsman Petri Jääskeläinen urges the Oulu Police Department to pay attention to the duration of pre-trial investigations of criminal offences in which the suspects or victims are children.

In the first of the cases, both the suspect and the injured party were 14 years old. The law states that if a person under the age of 15 is suspected of a criminal act, the criminal investigation shall be conducted urgently. However, the injured party had been questioned nine months and the suspect more than 18 months after the offence had been reported, after which the pre-trial investigation had been closed. According to the Ombudsman, this did not meet the requirement of urgency prescribed by law, particularly as the suspected offence was a serious criminal offence.