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


The Security Situation in the Territory of the Central Bohemia in 1997

1. Criminality

Overall criminality 47 162   (+8,6%)
Criminality on 10 thousands inhabitants 427   
Clarified crimes 20 485   (+9,1%)
Clarification in % 43,4%   (+1,0%)

The Volume of Criminality in Districts

the highest number of crimes Mladá Boleslav
Kladno
5 937
5 749
the highest number of crimes /10 thousands inhabitants Praha-západ
Mladá Boleslav
610
530
the lowest number of crimes Rakovník
Kutná Hora
1 811
2 889
the highest increase of crimes Praha-západ

Mladá Boleslav
+31,1% (the highest in the CR)
+19,1% (third highest in the CR)
the greatest decrease of crimes Kutná Hora
Rakovník
-7,4%
-3,4%

Clarification of the criminality in Districts

the highest clarification Kutná Hora
Benešov
55,2%
53,4%
the lowest clarification Kladno
Milník
35,6%
37,8%
the highest increase of clarification Benešov
Praha-východ
+3,6%
+3,5%
the greatest decrease of clarification Kutná Hora

Beroun
-8,3% (the Highest in the CR)
-6,4% (second highest in the CR)

In 1997 the increase of the criminality of 8,6% was recorded in the Central Bohemia. 47.162 crimes were disclosed in total, which represented the fifth place among regions of the Czech Republic. The Central Bohemia follows the capital of Prague as the most burdened region in the Czech Republic according to the conversion of the criminality on 10 thousands inhabitants (427 crimes). 20.485 crimes (+3,6%) were clarified. The overall clarification declined about 2,1% on 43,4%. 459 crimes, of which 428 were of the property character, were clarified additionally.

The increase of the criminality was characteristic for the majority of districts of this region. Districts of Mladá Boleslav (5.937 crimes) and Kladno (5.749 crimes) are characteristic with the long-time highest criminality. The most burdened districts after the conversion of the criminality on 10 thousands inhabitants are Prague-West (610 crimes), Mladá Boleslav (530 crimes) and Prague-East (526 crimes).

The highest clarification is characteristic for districts of Kutná Hora (55,2%), Benešov (53,4%) and Nymburk (53,3%), the lowest one for districts of Kladno (35,6%), Milník (37,8%) and Mladá Boleslav (37,9%).

Cities of Kladno, Kolín, Kralupy nad Vltavou, Milník and Mladá Boleslav were included in the complex co-ordination program of the criminality prevention on the local level in the frame of the criminality prevention.

The Administration of the Central Bohemia recorded the increased criminality in all districts in the time, when the Czech Republic suffered from floods.

Criminal Factors in the Region

The security situation in the Central Bohemia is influenced by several important specific factors:

Offences

129.282 offences (-8,1%) were disclosed by the Public Order Police in 1997, for which 20.392.100,- CZK (-2,1%) were collected.

203.006 offences (-2,3%) were detected by the Traffic Police and 105.441.520,- CZK (+6,3%) were collected for them.

4.438 offences (+1.719 crimes) were disclosed by the Administrative Activities Police, for which 880.800,- CZK (+523.980,- CZK) were collected. (This increase was caused by the transfer of the travel documents issuing agenda from the Alien and Border Police to the Administrative Activities Police as from January 1, 1997).

2.312 offences (+571 crimes) were detected by the Alien and Border Police last year and 1.409.350 CZK (+369.600,- CZK) was collected from them.

339.038 offences (-4%) were disclosed by all police services in total, for which the total amount of 128.123.770,- CZK were collected, i.e. 5,5% more than in 1996.

Criminality offenders

In 1997 there were 10.747 persons (7,5%) prosecuted for committed crimes in total. There were 2.619 habitual offenders (-10,6%) from the whole amount, who represented the share of 24,4% (-0,8%) of the overall structure of offenders. Habitual offenders committed 6.169 crimes (-6,5%), which is 30,1% (-3,3%) of all clarified crimes. From the separate kinds of criminality point of view habitual offenders participated in the violent criminality 23,5%, from which 37,5% in murders, in the moral criminality (22,8%, burglaries 34,3% (38% into week-end houses), in the simple thefts 27,2% and in the property crimes 29,9%. The share of habitual offenders on the criminality commitment has been permanently getting down since 1992.

As far as the criminality of foreigners is concerned, it has been filed and assessed by the investigation and information department in the Central Bohemia since 1997. 503 aliens were prosecuted in this region in total, i.e. 4,7% of the whole number of offenders. We can say that their number decreased of 13,9% in comparison with 1996. Nationals of Slovakia took the most important part in the criminality of foreigners, there were 232 of them pursued for 548 crimes, followed by nationals of Ukraine, Poland and Vietnam.

2. Security Risks

2a) Risks with the international element, which are directly connected with the stability of the political system

Legal and Illegal Migration

In 1997 there were 13.407 long-term residence permits granted in the Central Bohemia in total (13.376 were in 1996). 1.356 permanent residence permits were granted (there were 756 in 1996).

Nationals of Ukraine, who are looking for an employment and are businessmen in the sphere of auxiliary works, ask mostly for the long-term residence permit. As it was stated by the Administration of the Central Bohemia the whole agenda connected with granting long-term residence permits is in hands of Ukrainian firms ("Ukrainian Mafia"), which either employed Ukrainians or arrange the job for them. In many cases workers from Ukraine are without financial means accommodated under inconvenient conditions. It is possible to say that it is a trafficking of the human working power. Recently the situations occurred, when not only nationals of Ukraine are subjects of racketeering but also nationals of the Czech Republic, which employed them. Considerably a great number of Ukrainians try to legalise their stay in the territory of the Czech Republic by obtaining false crossing stamps or illicit enter concerning the long-term residence in the travel document. Alien and Border Police pays attention to these problems, however documentation is very difficult because concerned foreigners are afraid of possible consequences from the part of the police as awell as from the part of the Ukrainian Mafia.

Nationals of Slovakia are on the second place in the number of granted long-term residence permits. They work mainly in the building industry and during the seasonal works in the agriculture.

In 1997 the increase of presented applications for the long-term residence permit from nationals of Vietnam was noticed. Regarding the fact that it is "problem" group of aliens (illegal border crossings, obtaining false documents, pretended losses of travel documents, the use of affidavits concerning accommodation on so called contact addresses) the Alien and Border Police tightened up the verifying of presented applications for the long-term residence permit.

Tourist trips of nationals of the former Soviet Union (Ukraine, Belarussia and Russia) are the greatest problem concerning the short-term stays, then so called transit trips of nationals of Romania and tourism of nationals of Bulgaria, who participate in the large extent in pocket thefts. (The group of nationals of Bulgaria was disclosed in 1997, which had a tourist stay legalised by false stamps in the travel document and the legalisation was most probably made by the national of Bulgaria).

The Control Department of the Alien and Border Police in co-operation with separate departments of the Alien and Border Police in districts was concentrated on screening places with the high concentration of foreigners, the methodological preparation in the question of imposing sentences of the prohibition of stay and location of foreigners to cells of the preliminary detention. Drives to places with the expected occurrence of aliens with an illegal stay were organised.

The Administration of the Central Bohemia informs that the illegal migration is apparently the destabilisation element of the political system. Current legal rules (the law No. 123/1992 Coll. on aliens residence in the territory of ESFR in the wording of later changes and additions) and insufficient jurisdictions of the police to solve situations of the illegal aliens stays enable the stay for those foreigners, from whom criminality and an organised crime offenders have been originating.

Organised Crime

In 1997 the increased number of car thefts of types ŠKODA 105 and ŠKODA 130 and no information concerning offenders or the direction of the sale were found out. Regarding the high number of stolen cars it is possible to presume that this criminality has been consistently planned and organised.

As far as the property and economic criminality is concerned it is possible to indicate the suspicion concerning the fake cases and overvalued caused damages with the aim to gain the property benefits from both insurance organisations and financial offices by the way of the tax deduction. How the Administration of the Central Bohemia states, the investigation of this criminality is very difficult due to "cumbersome" financial offices and "imperfection" of legal rules.

In the sphere of the illicit production and possession of psychotropic substances and poisons there were 657 cases disclosed in 1997. 204 crimes were committed by habitual offenders and 392 by young people. (A great part of addicts is prosecuted for the property criminal activities committed for getting financial means for the purchase of drugs). There were 16 crimes of the addiction dissemination committed, 10 of them by children and 11 by young people.

Racist Conflicts

In 1997 there was the same number of racially motivated and extremist crimes disclosed as in 1996. However, there was the substantial increase of actions organised by supporters of skinheads and punk movements. In 1996 there were three of them organised, in 1997 there were 10 in total.

There are 250 supporters of the skinheads movement according to estimations in the Central Bohemia. About 10 persons from Rakovník district profess themselves to the National Front of Casuists, approximately 15 persons from districts of Beroun, Kladno and Kolín profess themselves to the movement of "Chalice". There are 40-50 supporters of anarchists and "punk" movement, alternatively of another autonomous movements in the region.

The highest number of crimes with the extremist motive was in districts of Kladno, Kolín and Rakovník, this criminality was connected with actions organised by members of the skinheads movement in districts of Kladno and Rakovník. Only one case of extremism was noted in districts of Kutná Hora, Milník, Nymburk and Příbram.

2b) Risks directly affecting the level of citizens consciousness of the protection of their freedoms, health and property

Criminality of Young People

Children under 15 years of age committed 1.602 (-7,2%) crimes, i.e. 7,7% (-0,7%) of the total number of clarified crimes in 1997. They had the greatest share on the criminality in the district of Prague-East (22,4%) and Milník (16,5%). Young people between the age of 15 and 18 years committed 2.216 (-7,5%) crimes, i.e. 10,6% (-1,0%). They had the greatest share on the criminality in districts of Kutná Hora (17,3%) and Příbram (13,6%). Youngsters committed in total 3.725 crimes (-5,9%), i.e. 17,8% (-1,4%). In total their share on the criminality was 28,2%, of which 41,4% were robberies and 2,6% murders. As far as the moral criminality is concerned the share of youngsters was 19%, of which 15,3% were violations and 30% sexual interference. Young people participated in the property criminality with 28,9%, of which 26,5% were burglaries and 35,6% simple thefts. The great share of young people was disclosed at pocket thefts (61,7%), car thefts (31,2%), thefts of objects from cars (43,6%) and bikes thefts (38,8%).

Property Criminality

The property criminality represents 72,1% of the overall criminality of the Central Bohemia. In 1997 33.988 property crimes (+9,4%) were disclosed, the clarification decreased on 23,9% (-2,1%). The increase of the property criminality is caused by the increase of burglaries (+9,7%) and simple thefts (+10,3%). Burglaries represent 48,1% and simple thefts 44,7% of the property criminality. The number of burglaries to other facilities increased the most (+1.554 crimes) of all burglaries. There are facilities, which are not closely statistically determined, they could be e.g. cellars, caravans, cloakrooms, warehouses etc. The second greatest are burglaries into recreation houses of private persons. As far as simple thefts are concerned regarding the increase there are thefts of objects from cars (+735 crimes) on the first place. Radios, things of the personal use and other things freely accessible in the car are mainly subjects of thefts. This criminality is committed especially in the district cities. Offenders are specialised mainly on Skoda trade mark in the course of car thefts, the increase of 192 crimes was noticed in total. The Administration of the Central Bohemia prepares the establishment of two specialised working groups for the future period, which would make the active investigation directly in the terrain.

The street criminality is represented especially by the bikes thefts (+176 crimes). This criminality is characteristic above all for districts of Nymburk and Kolín, in which the bike is the common mean of travel.

Economic Criminality.

4.980 crimes (+21,1%) were disclosed in the frame of the economic criminality in total, their clarification amounted to 98,9% (+1,8%). 100% of the clarification was reached at crimes concerning frauds and defalcations.

Violent Criminality

In 1997 there were 2.448 violent crimes (+7,1%) detected in total, the clarification decreased on 81,6% (-0,6%).

The development of the violent criminality was influenced mainly by the increase of the most serious criminality - murders (+8 crimes). There were 43 murders committed, of which 37 were clarified. Motives of murders were above all family relations (14 crimes). One murder was committed in Germany, where the offender was the national of the Czech Republic. The greatest number of murders were disclosed in districts of Kladno (13 crimes), Milník (7 crimes) and Prague-West (5 crimes).

The increase of robberies in the region was of 91 crimes (+7,1%), districts with the greatest share on the criminality are Kladno ands Mladá Boleslav. (The case of the robbery assaults of the camion driver, offenders stole the electronics in the value of 68 millions CZK from the truck).

Public Order and Vandalism

In the field of the public order there were not any more serious offences in the territories of the most of districts. The great attention was paid to the organisation of cultural and sport actions - dancing parties and discotheques, first league football matches, festivals, car competitions, legal and illegal meetings of extremist groups, etc. from the part of policemen.

Security of Road Traffic

In 1997 there were 22.251 traffic accidents (-352) in the Central Bohemia, 219 persons (-4) were killed during them, 1.027 persons were heavily injured (+72) and 3.656 slightly injured (+3). The material damage was estimated on the amount of 7.458 mil. CZK (+739 mil. CZK). In 1997 the slight decrease of accidents and health consequences occurred, the decline of accidents was notices in the highways (-136) as well. 22 persons (+4) were killed in the highways. The greatest number of traffic accidents was in villages (12.774), during which 40 persons (-30) were killed. The considerable decline of life injuries in villages was conditioned by the decrease of the driving speed in villages on 50 km/hour. The trend of the lowest number of accidents has continued out of villages, however the number of dead people increased. The hard drinks consummation was disclosed at 1.227 accidents (+108). 26 persons (-2) were killed in the course of these accidents. From the districts point of view there was an increase of accidents in districts of Benešov, Beroun, Nymburk, Prague-East and Prague-West, the decrease was noticed in districts of Kladno, Kolín, Kutná Hora, Milník, Mladá Boleslav, Poíbram and Rakovník.


The Central Bohemia - the Development of the Criminality in 1996 and 1997 and the Change of Development between these two years in %

  1996 1997 Change in % +/-
Disclosed crimes in total 43 447 47 162 8,6
Clarified crimes
i. e. in %
19 772
45,5
20 485
43,4
3,6
-
Disclosed damages in total (in thousands CZK) 10 373 341 3 365 964 67,6
Secured damages 40 582 72 205 77,9
Common criminality 36 053 38 842 7,7
Clarified crimes
i. e. in %
12 676
35,2
12 449
32,1
- 1,8
-
Violent criminality 2 286 2 448 7,1
Clarified crimes
i. e. in %
from that: Robberies
      Murders
      Intentional health harm
2 001
87,5
339
35
634
1 997
81,6
430
43
564
- 0,2
-
26,8
22,9
- 11,0
Moral criminality 454 188 - 58,6
Clarified crimes
i. e. in %
from that: Violation
430
97,4
67
174
92,6
67
- 59,5
-
0,0
Property criminality 31 067 33 988 9,4
Clarified crimes
i. e. in %
8 064
26,0
8 115
23,9
0,6
-
Burglaries 14 916 16 357 9,7
Clarified crimes
i. e. in %
from that: in flats
      in week-end houses
3 217
21,6
1 215
4 815
3 232
19,8
1 394
4 835
0,5
-
14,7
0,4
Simple thefts 13 775 15 193 10,3
Clarified crimes
i. e. in %
from that: motor vehicles
      objects from cars
      bicycles
      pocket thefts
Frauds
3 418
24,8
2 573
3 962
1 596
246
658
3 541
23,3
2 765
4 697
1 772
208
697
3,6
-
7,5
18,6
11,0
- 15,4
5,9
Economic criminality4 112 4 980 21,1
Clarified crimes
i. e. in %
from that: frauds
      embezzlement
3 993
97,1
1 582
934
4 925
98,9
2 438
1 357
23,3
-
54,1
45,3


Central Bohemia - the Development of the Criminality in Separate Districts in 1996 and 1997
  Year 1996 Year 1997 change
Region disclosed crimes clarified crimes quantity./ 10th inhab. clarification in % disclosed crimes clarified crimes quantity./ 10th inhab. clarifity in % disclosed crimes in % clarifity in % % of clarifity
Benešov 2 6741 332 308 49,8 2 9721 58833553,4 11,119,23,6
Beroun 2 813 1 400 373 49,8 3 154 1 367 419 43,3 12,1 -2,4 -6,4
Kladno 5 892 2 401 393 40,8 5 749 2 045 383 35,6 -2,4 -14,8 -5,2
Kolín 3 040 1 456 338 47,9 3 380 1 543 354 45,7 11,2 6,0 -2,2
Kutná Hora 3 120 1 982 399 63,5 2 889 1 595 371 55,2 -7,4 -19,5 -8,3
Mělník 4 846 2 077 512 42,9 4 804 1 817 507 37,8 -0,9 -12,5 -5,0
Mladá Boleslav 4 967 1 831 444 36,7 5 937 2 253 530 37,9 19,0 23,0 1,2
Nymburk 2 487 1 403 283 56,4 2 933 1 564 360 53,3 17,9 11,5 -3,1
Praha-východ 4 316 1 705 46339,54 847 2 086 526 43,0 12,3 22,3 3,5
Praha-západ 3 529 1 368 46138,8 4 627 1 776 610 38,4 31,1 29,8 -0,4
Příbram 3 868 1 847 358 47,8 4 059 1 973 377 48,6 4,9 6,8 0,9
Rakovník 1 875 970 347 51,7 1 811 878 336 48,5 - 3,4 -9,5 -3,3
In total 43 447 19 772 393 45,547 162 20 485 427 43,4 8,6 3,6 -2,1


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