Police Criminal sanctions Social welfare 71 Health care Defence forces and Border Guard Asylum and immigration 3 2 71 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 5 71 1 1 7 1 21 2 71 2 7 3 1 1 1 2 1 3 NPM mandate visits 2016 - the list of visits, see annex 2. Finland is one of the most sparsely inhabited country in Europe. Population distribution is very uneven. Most of the population and the places where persons are deprived of their liberty are concentrated on the southern and western part of Finland.