The report on the security situation in the territory of the Czech Republic was worked up by the Ministry of Interior in the co-operation with the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Finance (including the General Customs Directorate), the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Physical Training, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Supreme State Representation and the Security Information Service in 1997. The representatives of the above mentioned institutions prepared the source materials concerning the field of the internal order and security of the Czech Republic from the points of view of these departments.
The presented material evaluates the security situation in the territory of the Czech Republic in 1997 (in comparison with 1996) mainly from the standpoint of security risks determined by the government of the Czech Republic for the period in question. The target of the report is to find out if these security risks were determined in accordance with the most important problems of the internal order and security of the Czech Republic and further to set down the security risks for the next period (year 1998) on the basis of the disclosed facts including the set of measures and the draft of the priorities of the police work.
The report has two parts and enclosure. The first part of the report contains the essential data concerning criminal offences and the dynamics of their development. The conclusion of this part is formed by the summary of the done activities aimed at the area of the internal security and the assessment of the priorities of the police work in the past period and the proposal of the set of measures and priorities for 1998.
The second part deals with the security situation in the separate regions of the Czech Republic in 1997. The source materials worked out by the directorates of the regional administrations adjusted editorially by the submitors were used for elaboration of this part.
The set of charts and graphs, in which the basic information from the both previous parts are specified, is published in the enclosure after the actual text.
In the first quarter of 1998 the Minister of Interior presented further materials concerning the problems mentioned in this report to the government. Compilers of the report referred to these materials in the relevant parts. The materials concerned are "The Report on the Continuous Fulfilment of the Strategy of the Criminality Prevention until 2000", "The Report on the State Authorities Proceedings Concerning the Punishment of the Criminal Offences Motivated by Racism and Xenophobia or Committed by the Members of Extremist Groups" and "Information on the Situation in the Migration Area in the Czech Republic in 1997.