With regards to the territorial regions of the Czech Police a region is understood in this Report to be "an administrative area" under Act No. 36/1960 Coll., on Territorial Division of the State.
Persons suspected of having committed a crime offence are recorded in police statistics as "prosecuted or investigated persons".
(Buriánek, J.: Veřejnost a kriminalita v ČR: trendy vývoje; (Public and Crime in the Czech Republic: Development Trends). The same view of crime development can be found for instance in the German report on crime development). There are also problems in connection with the amount of damage from which unlawful conduct against property is judged to be a crime. (From 1 January 1994 when this amount was increased from CZK 1,000 to CZK 2,000 there has not been any change). However, due to the increasing inflation rate more conducts are judged to be crimes. There has been a significant decline in the numbers of misdemeanours.
The Czech Investigation Bureau's statistics first of all monitors the condition and development of investigation files with the aim of supporting investigation management processes. The Code of Criminal Procedure in Sec. 20 (1) stipulates: "The join proceedings are taken in case of all crimes committed by the same accused person and against all accused persons whose crimes are mutually related."
This chapter deals with misdemeanours solved by the Police of the Czech Republic, however there are no statistical records of misdemeanours.
In terms of police statistics a repeated offender is an offender of an intentional crime offence who was in the past sentenced for the same crime.
As of 31 December 2000 there were officially 200,951 foreigners in the Czech Republic holding a permanent residency permit (-27,911, -13.2 %), out of them 66,891 (+137, +0.2 %) foreigners held a long-term residency permit.
As the Security Intelligence Service submits its own Report to the Government, the Chapter does not contain the crimes committed by members of the SIS.
The category "groups of persons" enables to determine only the total number of persons in groups, but it is not possible to differentiate the numbers of men and women. In the total numbers of male and female categories those persons are not included.
The investigated cases were submitted to the Bureau of Investigation by the Coordination and Analytical Group, which was cancelled by the Government. Its role was taken over by the Supreme Prosecutor's Office.
We do not differentiate the crimes committed with a legally or illegally owned weapons since the crimes where the police were not able to detect if the weapon was legally owned are included among the crimes committed with a legally held weapon.
The Czech Police statistics recording system records only those fires which they are proven as crimes (this concerns fires reported to the police, or where "well-founded suspicions" that a crime has been committed are ascertained), which is the reason for the discrepancy with the data from the Fire Brigades, which record all fires.
With regards to the National Alliance, the Ministry of the Interior decided on 31 March 2000 to dissolve this organisation. This decision has not entered into force because the National Alliance took the decision to voluntarily dissolve by 15 April 2001 This decision was takenprior to the decision of the Ministry of the Interior was reviewed, by the Supreme Court.
VII Extraordinary Congress of the Patriot Republican Party (PRP) was held on 3 March 2001. The management of the party as well as the name were changed. The Party was transformed to the National Social Block which came into existence by merging the PRP, National Alliance, National Resistance and other right-wing extremist parties. A step towards the unification of the Czech right-wing extremists has been made.
This number does not include citizens of Slovakia since they do not need a work permit. The relevant Labour Office only registers them. According to the data of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs there were 63,567 Slovak citizens working in the Czech Republic.
The Minister of the Interior chairs the Republic Crime Prevention Committee whose members are: the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry for Local Development, the Ministry of Finance, the Supreme State Prosecutor's Office, the Police Presidium, the Inter-departmental Anti-drug Commissions, and the Inter-departmental Commission for Roma Community Issues.
In 2000, one project was supported without claiming the financial involvement of a relevant city - "Expedition Prevention" (presentation of preventative actions taken in Sokolov in mass media).
To determine the reasons and conditions of crime is very hard and is principally the focus of criminology, which relates to other disciplines, above all sociology, psychology, pedagogy, statistics, and criminal-law science. The causes can be explained in two ways: the first emphasises the importance of biological factor (heredity, physical condition, personality structure), the second factor is of social nature - the background environment (family, peers, media, etc.) (There is a range of approaches and theories regarding the causes of crime - the account presented here is a cross-section of the spectrum and is a generalisation rather than a particular direction. It must be emphasised that the factors mentioned do not work in isolation, but cumulatively. It would therefore be misleading to specify which one is decisive.) Therefore to determine, which is a key factor would be misleading. The crime development is connected with social control rate, which decreases with higher density of inhabitants and with large conurbation.
J. Buriánek, researches held in 1999, 1998, and 1995 - see Chapter 2.4 - Crime Victims
The proposed priorities take into account a long-term development in the field of internal security. Although the results of survey made among the victims of crimes reveal strong concerns relating to burglaries into flats or family houses we have not included this area among the above mentioned priorities since the number of such offences has gradually decreased since 1991. Whether such risks will be included among security priorities in the future period will be assessed with regards to the further development of such kind of crime and mainly, whether the citizens' concerns will be confirmed.