The Policeman 2/2001 |
A monthly magazine of the Ministry of the Interior of Czech Republic Department of Crime Prevention |
In a report from Bohemia’s favourite mountains, Krkonoše, we followed the tracks of a police action called Hora, which has become traditional in the fight against the nightmare of recent years: luxury car theft in the large parking lots of Špindlerův Mlýn, Pec pod Sněžkou and other mountain resorts. Thanks to the action, car thieves have moved to other areas, but the fight continues …
Questions for Lieutenant-Colonel Mr Kotlan, the Deputy Police President, concerned a creation of a larger number of permanent peace units. Mr Kotlan says among other things that: “The task arised to create the conception for permanent public peace units of the Police of the Czech Republic, and I am working on it with specialists from the field of public peace services and logistics.”
“The admission report of the European Commission for last year, regarging the Police of the Czech Republic and the Ministry of the Interior, is considerably more favourable than reports from previous years. The overall impression is a positive one. There are, however, some incomprehensible details, imprecise terminology, and in places it lacks objectivity,” says among other things the Police President, Mr Kolář, about the evaluation of the Police of the ČR and of the Ministry of the Interior for the year 2000 by the European Commission.
Foreign pages discuss the the difficulty of finding police recruits in Great Britain and in the USA, and mention new computer aid to roundsman in Britain and in the Netherlands.
Five years ago, three inmates of a prison for youthful deliquents attacked the medical surgery in an attempt to seize hostages and open a way out of the prison. The prison service marred the attempt soon. It turned out, however, that the attempt had been preceded by the murder of a fellow prisoner. The article tries to portray the events and circumstances which lead to the committing of a capital offence in the specific environment of prison life.
Shops sell almost anything these days, but the ranges of models of police cars of individual countries are still very hard to access, and the special cars of many countries do not appear at all. First Lieutenant, Mr Sedlák, from the group of criminalist technique of the District Headquarters of the Police of the ČR in Cheb not only collects such models, but also makes them after his own photographs. The portrait of this collector describes not only his interesting hobby, but also the work of technicians of criminological services.
A report about the work of policemen from the district department of the Police of the ČR in Stráž pod Ralskem, in the district of Česká Lípa. It is a territory which had until recently been burdened not only by crime but also by ecological consequences of uranium mining. With the decreasing extraction, the crime-rate sinks too, but many consequences still present difficulties for the policemen.
We have good news for all those who love the mountains. Starting next winter season, two more recreation properties in Krkonoše will be run by the Winter Centre of the Ministry of the Interior. The present area of Eden in Herlíkovice near Vrchlabí will be joined by the hotels Jánošík and Panorama in Špindlerův Mlýn, after their general reconstruction. Soon there will be a new possibility of exchange recreation in Hungaria, Poland and Slovakia, and negotiations are in progress about recreation in Slovenia.
At the time when this article was being written, the second round was being completed of technical and user tests of a gun, which the Czech munition factory in Uherský Brod prepared as part of the new equipment of the Czech police. The construction of the gun was adjusted according to requirements of the Ministry of the Interior and of the Police of the ČR, which resulted from the first round of tests. The second phase of testing was satisfactory, and the model is likely to be in its final version now, and be soon distributed among policemen. The official title of the weapon will remain identical with the commercial compact with aluminium alloy frame: CZ 75D Compact. The calibre is 9 mm Luger. In the article, the gun is described in detail, according to the author’s own testing of it.
An archival case from 1966 describes the work of Ostravian criminologists, who with careful inspection of the scene of crime managed to identify a corpse which had been decomposing in a provisional grave for four years, and within a mere sixteen days they caught and convicted the murderer.
The large supplement maps terrorism world-wide, while the small one reviews with several articles a conference which took place in Prague near the end of last year and focused on the subject of Human Rights and the Police.