Tired of queuing at the Poliisi

I you have ever had to go to the Helsingin Ulkumalaispoliisi to renew your student or working resident permit you know that you have to spend a long time waiting in lines. Sometimes we talk about many hours.

Waiting is a sign of social inefficiency, especially if you are making workers wait (as opposed to unemployed), because those hunders of hours equal a loose-loose situation both in salary and tax for people and government repesptively. I decided to complain about this, and suggested that they have some sort of time reservation system.  To my surprise, they replied to my letter by stating t hat such a system already exists.

The problem was that if you use the English version of the Poliisi.fi site, then you will never see the link. In any case, if you want to reserve time with the poliisi for any police matter, you are able to do so through this page:

https://www.ajanvaraus.fi/isl/rms.do?url=poliisi