Season 6 • Episode 10
LatestA new captain comes to take over the police station. Old behaviors and installed management will be questioned and put into debate. Police drama that tells the life of the policemen of the station of Roba, in the south of Helsinki. Winner of the Venla award for the best drama series in 2013.
Writing
Balances cop-procedural beats with genuine workplace character study.
Acting
Kari Hietalahti's Sergent Mäkelä carries decades of institutional exhaustion.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roba pioneered 'Nordic everyday' policing—rejecting brooding detectives for bureaucratic realism that influenced subsequent Finnish series like Bordertown.
The actual Roba police station exterior was filmed in a functioning Helsinki precinct; officers occasionally wandered into shots during night shoots.
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