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The Report on the Public Order and Internal Security Situation in the Czech Republic in 1999 was approved by the Resolution No. 602 on the 14th June 2000.
The report is presented annually by the Interior Ministry.
The report aims to outline a trend and dynamics of crime, trends in the sectors pertaining to the internal security, to declare areas on which to pay an extra attention, and so, to define a base for the Cabinet's public order and security policy. The report is not and cannot be a material formulating individual steps. Its purpose is, on the contrary, to generalize procedures leading to a strengthening of state prevention and, above all, leading to crime reduction and increase of state's internal security.
The Cabinet's priority in the fight against organized crime is to limit the extent and aftereffects of crime and to raise security of the citizens. To have a more objective assessment of the crime level and, in particular, the citizens' safety, the report enclosure contains signaling information on a sociological survey carried out under the name “Current trends in the public-to-crime relation”.
The year 1999 was characterized by stagnation in the number of registered crimes accompanied by an increased number of solved crimes. The number of financial crimes which were solved increased. The amount of registered financial damage as well as the crime rate kept growing. Alarming is the growth of violent crime rate committed by children. Regarding the long term trends, an ongoing decrease in the number of registered house breakings is a positive trend as this number is the lowest since 1991.
More information you can obtain at Department for Security Policy
(e-mail: mmazel@mvcr.cz).