The Report on Security Situation in the Territory of the Czech Republic in 1997 (Comparison with 1996)


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1 The number of crimes committed on the railways, which are investigated by the Railway Police Service, is included into the total number of crimes. This amount forms the part of the overall criminality within the Czech Republic, however it cannot be found in the statistics of the separate regions, as the territorial division of the Railway Police Service did not correspond to the range of the effectiveness of the Regional Administrations of the Police of the Czech Republic. In 1997 there were 5.809 of these crimes registered (i.e. -15,7%, -1.084 crimes), in the same time the decrease of the number of clarified crimes occurred (i.e. -16,4%, -434 crimes) as well the decrease of clarification as such (-0,3%). The thefts of shipments, 558 of them registered (-279), as well as the thefts of the coloured metals, 571 of them committed (-332), have been still the specified forms of criminality in the railway transportation. The passengers announced 527 (-95) thefts in the trains. The Railway Police Service highlights again the increase of crimes concerning the somebody else s property damage (so called GRAFITI), 45 (+10) of these crimes were investigated. The anonymous threatening announcements concerning the location of explosives in the objects of the Czech Railways have been increasing (94, +36).
The cases of burglaries and clamours for so called "Contribution" levied under threat, committed mainly by the citizens of former Soviet Union, have occurred directly at the railway stations, especially in Prague.

2 The police statistics presents the amounts of pursued offenders, who were announced the accusation according to §160, part 1 of the penal law, however the judicial statistics present the numbers of prosecuted offenders. The most of the persons were sentenced by courts in Northern Moravia (15.509) and Southern Moravia (11.802) regions, the less in the Southern Moravia (4.607).

3 Re-social programs (the attention is paid to the increasing of the effectivity of individual re-social programs and improving of the educational impact on convicts) and programs of the preparation of convicts for release from imprisonment result from the Criminality Prevention Strategy till 2000. "The Report on Continuous Fulfilment of the Criminality Prevention Strategy till 2000" was presented to the government in March 1998.

4 The Ministry of Defence aims its preventive activity to the largest number of soldiers in active service as well as to civil employees.

5 The Institute for Criminology and Social Prevention was the manager of project ("The Research of crime victims in the Czech Republic") under the financial support of the Czech republic grant agency. The Institute for Criminology and Social Prevention provided the Ministry of Interior with the final report on this research, from which some of the further mentioned results have been chosen.

6 For further information see also the chapter Legislation Area and the chapter International Co-operation and Interdepartmental Co-operation.

7 The Ministry of Industry and Trade (see governmental resolution No. 577/96, in which the task to prepare the mutually connected legislative adjustment of the conditions of stay, business and employment of foreigners and conditions for granting asylum was imposed to respective departments) adjusts in frames of the prepared amendment of the trade law also the preliminary granting of trade licence or licensing charter. The database of the trade registration has been taken care of and actualized (the Ministry of Industry and Trade prepares its accession on the base of EXTRANET). Contemporary legislative regulations and non-compatibility of relevant records has restrained on the implementation of the whole-republic registration of all business subjects. The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has begun to built the new information system, which will gradually improve the permeability of information concerning the employment of foreigners among the labour offices and the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

8 It is stated in the research named "The Corruption Climate in the Czech Republic" (the continuous report of the grant project financed by the Ministry of Interior) that "the corruption and the social climate, which causes its presence, really take part in the weakening of democratic foundations of our society. The delegation of the responsibility of the corruption problems solution to the state is typical for the majority of respondents (69% of respondents presumes that they cannot affect the solution of this problem by their behaviour, 22% of respondents state that it is necessary to provide and active help in prosecution of the corruption cases).

9 Proposed measures concerning the sphere of the prevention belong to the co-ordination of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Physical Training, the Ministry of Culture and further the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and represent the integral part of the presented material.

10 The Government of the Czech Republic approved "The Report on the Situation of the Romany Community in the Czech Republic" and the declaration of the government on the contemporary situation in the Romany community by the Resolution No. 686 from October 29, 1997. The supreme office of the state prosecutor presented its report to the government already in March 1997.

11 The attention to children in jeopardy is the priority of the criminality prevention mainly for the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Physical Training. The tasks of the work with the dangerous young people have resulted from the Strategy of the Criminality Prevention till 2000. "The Report on the Running Fulfillment of the Strategy of the Criminality Prevention till 2000" was presented to the government by the Ministry of Interior in March 1998.

12 The railway accidents are the specific area, 54 (-5) railway accidents were qualified as crimes with the material loss of 37.735.000 CZK from the total number of 154 railway accidents. The most frequent causes were a lapse of duty and breaking of rules from the part of the Czech Railways employees on the one hand and the drive against obstacles on the way on the other hand. 166 clashes with motor vehicles were registered on railway crossings (the same number as in 1996), 53 (-34) of them were qualified as crimes.

13 Law No. 21/1997 Coll., on the control of the export and import of goods and technologies liable to international control regimes, law No. 22/1997 Coll., on technical requirements of products, law No. 77/1997 Coll., on the state enterprise, law No. 152/1997 Coll., on the protection against the import of dumping products, the bill of the factual intention of law on the social aid, bills of factual intentions of laws on the registration of inhabitants, on registers, name and surname and on connected measures, on identity cards and travel documents and travelling abroad. (Factual intentions of laws were discussed and approved by the government by the resolution No. 622 from October 8, 1997 and resolution No. 741 from November 26, 1997, the bills were placed into the prospective plan of the work of the government on the second half of 1998 with the term in the IV. quarter). The bill of factual intention of laws on the traffic on roads, on the professional qualification for motor vehicles driving and on technical conditions of the traffic of vehicles on roads, the transfer of the transportation and administration agenda from the factual competency of the Ministry of Interior to the Ministry of Transportation and Communications will be the subject of the new legal amendment, bills of respective laws will be worked out and presented by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications to the government. Drafts of the factual intention of law on integrated salvage system (the presentation of the draft was placed into the prospective plan of the work of the government on the second half of 1998 with the term in the IV. quarter). The draft of the factual intention of the law on prevention and liquidation of industrial breakdowns. The law No. 304/1997 Coll., on the road transportation adjusts relations between passengers and the carrier in the entirely new way (policemen has to be called to some operations until now), this law will be effective as from April 1, 1998.

14 In 1997 the admission proceedings were initiated with 2.000 applicants for the police work in the capital of Prague, 253 of them were accepted, 422 have remained unfinished and the rest of applicants did not fulfil admission conditions.

15 The edict on the control order of the electrification network, the law on some measurements during import and export of goods, the implementation of some special conditions during the conclusion of consumers treaties as they are presented in the European Union.


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