rikosilmoitus

rikos +‎ ilmoitus

rikosilmoitus

1. police report, crime report, offense report (US) (Tehdä rikosilmoitus ["make a police report"] is the originally only bureaucratic, formal way Finns now often say ilmoittaa rikos ["report a crime"] even in colloquial speech)

The term is usually used in the expression "tehdä rikosilmoitus", which is normally expressed in English as "report an offence/crime" or "report someone/something to the police".

The Finnish tendency to turn simple, natural descriptions of processes using a verb (such as "ilmoittaa rikos") into abstract concepts in the form of compound nouns (such as "rikosilmoitus", which then require the addition of another verb) makes Finns look for an English compound noun here even in non-formal use. The expressions "make/file a police report" etc. are however only used in formal contexts by native speakers.

The way the Finnish police exclusively use the very rare expression "report of an offence" (instead of "reporting an offence", "the reporting of an offence", "to report an offence", or the more common compound nouns listed above) is Finglish.