Satu Koivu is Deputy Police Commissioner at the Finnish National Police Board and has 35 years of experience as a police officer. With extensive experience, broad knowledge and police training at strategic and operational levels, her leadership and management skills have been proven in practice.
Since 2014, she has worked as Deputy Police Commissioner/Head of Human Resources Development at the Finnish National Police Board (Supreme Police Command). From 2009 to 2013, she served as Chief Superintendent in the Finnish Police Department. Prior to that, she was a trainer and expert in police command and operations at the Finnish Police University College. She served as a first-rank supervisor, sergeant of uniformed police patrols (team leader) in the Police Department from 1996 to 2004. She began her career from 1988 to 1995 as a police officer and senior detective (criminal investigations) with the Finnish Police.
Her international experience includes serving as an expert speaker, organiser and chair of several international meetings, training courses and working groups, and as an expert speaker on human resources, gender and capacity building and development in the context of crisis management at the EU Police Training Conference and the EU CSDP High Level Course.
In 2012, she was team leader and lecturer for the East African Standby Force Coordination Mechanism (EASFCOM). She organised a UNPOL civilian police officers' course in Rwanda while also serving as a lecturer and mentor for the European Union Police Officers' Course at the Crisis Management Centre in Finland (EUPOL). From 2003 to 2011, she was a member of a training and education project for future Namibian police leaders, a police training advisor and senior police advisor at the EU Police Coordination Office for Palestinian Police Support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (EUPOL COPPS). She has currently held the position of Senior Police Adviser and Head of the Police Component of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) since May 2021.
Deputy Police Commissioner Koivu holds a Master's degree in Police Science from the University of Turku and professional teacher training from the University of Helsinki.
She has been an active member of the Zonta International Foundation since 1995. She is married and has two daughters.
