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Under threat of violence

In an unarmed threatening situation, act in the following way.

  • Act calmly and try to calm the person with your behaviour.
  • Make sure you do not turn your back or let yourself be cornered, so that you will always have an escape route when a threatening person comes close.
  • Call for help depending on the circumstances.
  • Escape and help others escape.

Take care of your own safety. Seek to direct the threatening person to a place where they cannot harm others. After the event, contact the police about the incident if required.

If the threatening person is armed, act in the following way.

  • Do not resist.
  • Do whatever the person threatening you tells you to do.
  • As the situation permits, try to warn others.
  • By closing doors, you can limit a person's movement within the property.
  • After the situation, call 112 to get professional help on site as fast as possible. Listen to directions and act accordingly.

Every threat and sighting of a possibly threatening situation must be taken seriously and the police must be informed immediately. Through your own behaviour, you can affect the progress of the situation, and thus you should take all threatening situations seriously and try to calm down already begun situations.

Action in a firearm situation

  • Leave the danger area, if it is safely possible to do so.

If leaving is not safe:

  • Go into a classroom or an equivalent room
  • Lock the door or move furniture in front of the doors or doors so that the handle of the door cannot be used
  • Pile up furniture in front of the door
  • Turn off the lights
  • Go and lie down next to the wall by the door if the material of the wall is e.g. brick or concrete or find some otherwise safe place
  • Call the emergency centre on 112 and tell them about the situation. Give the floor and the number of the room or classroom
  • Otherwise avoid using the phone
  • If there is smoke in the corridors, do not go into smoky corridors but stay in the classroom and try to fill in any possible gaps with wet clothes or other such things
  • Await further instructions from the police/rescue authorities/the staff of the school
  • Act in accordance with the further instructions