Report on the Security Situation in the Czech Republic in 1999
(in comparison with 1998)

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3.1.6. The Ministry of Interior Organisation and Management, Human Resources and Training, Economy and the Czech Fire Rescue Brigade Activities

The Ministry of Interior and the Czech police as they are principally responsible for internal security, and thus they take a range of related measures. There are mainly targeted security actions aimed at certain kinds of crimes and critical regions, the emphasis is placed on co-ordination and control activities, etc. The further steps related to economic, personnel, and organisation issues as well as to the Fire Rescue Brigades.

Organisation and Management

The basic organisation structure of the Ministry of Interior and Czech police was not fundamentally changed in 1999. The partial modifications were initiated by the need to simplify the performance of defined competence and to solve it more comprehensively and efficiently. With the aim to establish only one top control body, the Internal Control Department was set up. This department is responsible for the activities that used to be performed by the Supervision and Economic Control Departments. The preparation work aimed at transfer of civil defence from the Ministry of Defence under the responsibility of the Ministry of Interior commenced. (The transfer should be implemented in compliance with the Act on Crisis Management and Integrated Security System, which has not come into force yet). At the end of 1999 the establishment of the Department for Immigration and State Border Protection was prepared. This Department was set up on 1st January 2000. It will solve within the given authority the tasks of the Central Administration Office.

In order to ensure international activities of the Czech police the Department of International Police Co-operation was established on 1st December 1999. It works under the Police Presidium. Organisation prerequisites to establish police departments specialising on protection of witnesses were put in place. The work relating to Organisation Orders of the Ministry of Interior and police was completed.

According to Act No. 553/1991 Coll., on Municipal Police, as amended 3,403 persons were examined in the year monitored.

The control activities concentrated mainly on economy, efficiency and authorisation to use resources of the state budget, to utilise the state property and to verify the state administration performance level and administration supervision with emphasis on ensuring the reasons for detected negative phenomena, system deficiencies in management and organisation of work, and finally on performance of subsequent checks of meeting the tasks and efficiency of adopted measures.

In the course of 1999 the work place systemisation76) was implemented together with several fundamental measures :

Human Resources and Training

Staffing of the Ministry of Interior and the Czech Police Departments, structure of education and recruitment.

Graph: The number of employees - the Ministry of Interior and the Czech Police

Number of employees under the Ministry of Interior
  1998 1999 Change
Policemen 44,603 45,020    417
Civil employees 18,011 18,826    815
Total 62,614 63,846 1,232

By 31st December 1999 there were totally 63,846 employees under the Ministry of Interior, of which 70.5 % were policemen and 29.5 % were civil employees. Of the total number of employees there were 16,138 women, of which there were 4,813 policewomen (10.7 %). The total staffing of the Ministry increased to 95.7 %.

At the regional level the numbers of policemen increased by 446, in spite of some jobs being taken by civil employees, and the numbers of civil employees by 371. The largest number of open positions remains in Central Bohemia and in Prague. The numbers of policemen fell at the Investigation Bureaux where on the other hand the numbers of civil employees rose. The most open positions are at Investigation Bureaux in Prague and Central Bohemia.

The structure of education is more positive. Of the total number of policemen / civil employees 16%/13% are university graduates, 81 %/51 % have secondary education and 3 %/36 % have primary education.

1999 Hiring to the Service Relationship and Employment and comparison with 1998
Education Policemen Civil employees
Hired % Change Hired % Change
University 271 10.2 -58 474 15.8 24
Secondary education 2,102 79.4 151 1,616 53.9 -354
Primary education, certificate of apprenticeship 276 10.4 -79 905 30.2 -215
Total 2,649 100 14 2,995 100 -545

The most policemen - university graduates were hired to the Investigation Bureau, 99 of 137 hired policemen have university education, i.e. 72.3%. 34.3 % of employees77) authorised for investigation work at Investigation Bureau are university graduates.

2,175 (-356) policemen's jobs were terminated. A higher number of policemen who were laid off under Sec. 106 par. 1 (d) (breaching of service oath or breaching of duties by especially severe manner) was recorded. In 1997, 2.2 % (52 policemen) were laid off due to the above stated reason, in 1998, 3.67 % (93 policemen), and in 1999, 128 policemen were laid off, which is 5.88 %
2,111 civil employees' jobs were terminated.

The analysis of human resources issues, e.g. there are no career paths including performance appraisals and remuneration system, proved that the number of ranks is too high and does not correspond to the number of functional levels, and moreover the ranks frequently do not correspond to the jobs performed. The current system of performance appraisals based on the criteria of crime detection and the number of repressive events, covers only a small part of the police work and does not enable movement for predominantly preventative and proactive police work. The remuneration system is too complicated; the salary of a policeman consists of more than ten items and the amount of a final salary does not reflect how complex and demanding the work performed was.

Therefore in 1999 after the approval by the European Committee in Brussels the work on Phare twinning project “Human Resources Comprehensive Management for the Czech Police/Professional Training Programme for Policemen and the Czech Ministry of Interior Staff”, commenced. This project has to be terminated without fail by 30th June 2001. The results will have been processed and submitted in the form of legislation change proposals by the stated deadline. Those changes should form the base for the reconstruction of the Czech police so that it will correspond to the EU standards in the following areas:

The objective of the project is to create career pathing (so-called Career Order) as a set of clear, unambiguous rules stimulating career promotion, which will ensure the promotion of the best candidates for holding offices, and thus guarantee continual development of the Czech police. New criteria for performance appraisal, highlighting mainly preventative sides of police work, are being set. The remuneration will be streamlined and will be based on exact methods measuring the work demand and burden.78)

The basic professional preparation of policemen stabilised last year. The training of policemen in special knowledge and skills corresponds to the requirements for police jobs. The practice exercise was prepared for selected police offices. Altogether 34 kinds of training began at police secondary schools in compliance with the requirements of the Czech police and the Ministry of Interior departments.

2,190 students joined the basic professional training, 340 students attended courses to change their qualification, and 2,860 students began to attend special, innovative and language courses. Two-year course for the secondary school leavers including basic professional preparation commenced. Three-year extension lectures completed by a school-leaving exam were newly opened for civil employees, who have not finished the secondary education before they started to work for the police.

In practical training of policemen the emphasis was placed on risk factors involved in police work, especially extension of legal knowledge, improvement of psychological resistance and the level of tactical intervention and use of coercive means and weapons. Attention was paid also to increasing communication skills and constitution physical exercises.79) The training of professional staff - instructors who manage and organise policeman practice exercises also improved.80)

International co-operation with foreign ministries of interior and police schools continued. The objective was to make close contacts and to exchange experiences in the field of organisation, practice exercises of uniform, traffic and criminal police, immigration and border police, psychological, language and shooting training. The addition of new activities and methodological procedures into policemen training, especially in the area of tactical preparation and use of coercive means and improvement of police instructors preparation, mainly their communication and psychological skill, was beneficial.81)

The conception of the Ministry of Interior staff training in the EU matters was elaborated on the basis of “The Conception of State Administration Officer Training in the EU matters” approved by the Government Council for European Integration on 3rd March 1997. The basic three-day courses on the EU were held, the intensive language training for managers of the Ministry of Interior and the Czech police commenced.82)

The work on the Conception of the fight against intellectual property right crimes began. The system of further policeman training is gradually implemented under this conception, and the tasks under Czech Government resolution No. 720/1999, by which the Report on the procedure by state authorities in punishing crimes motivated by racism and xenophobia or committed by supporters of extremist movements and on activities of extremist groups in the Czech Republic are being met.

Economy

Meeting the principal tasks in economy and the priorities set in assessment of security situation for 1998:

A Brief Analysis of Utilising Budget Funds.83)

The economy of the Ministry of Interior was affected as follows:

Evaluation of Creating and Utilising Information and Telcommunication Systems by the Czech police and Ministry of Interior Departments.

Building up communication and information systems for the Czech police as well the Ministry of Interior is financially and technically projected in the following investment programmes:

1) Building up communication systems and network of the ministry of Interior

Investment programme 314 410 comprises 4 projects - ATLAS, HELIOS, PEGAS, and HERMES.

2) Information and Computing System Implementation

Investment programme 314 420 comprises 4 projects - WYSE, AFIS, Central Computing Centre, Schengen Information Systems, hardware and software for the Czech police and the Ministry of Interior departments.

The information systems are suggested including the data protection in compliance with “the Security Policy”, which was approved by Minister of Interior.

3) Purchasing and Technical Changes to the Communication Technology

The investment programme comprises 3 projects - DISPEČER, Vehicle radio-stations for the police motor vehicles, Communication technology for the Investigation Bureaux.

Crisis Management and the Integrated Rescue System

In the year monitored the transformation of the civil defence began, the Government proposals for crisis management and the Integrated Rescue System (IRS) modifications were prepared and submitted, implementation of the unified European emergency telephone line 112 continued, and the Czech legal regulations and technical standards relating to fire safety were harmonised with the EU regulations in compliance with Act No. 22/1997 Coll., on technical requirements for the products and on revisions and amendment of some other Acts. A range of activities relating to the preparation for an extraordinary event was implemented.84) The Chamber of Deputies of Czech Parliament has been discussing the Act on crisis management and IRS together with the Government bill of the amendment of the Fire Protection Act and the bill of the Czech Rescue Brigade, which relate to each other.

In 1999 the rescue brigade intervened three times abroad85) (it was sent to Tchaj-wan and Turkey because of earthquakes in those countries, and to France which suffered from a windstorm). The Ministry prepared the proposal for arrangements of providing assistance abroad. The Ministry of Interior completed the “Proposal for communication solution in IRS”, which was approved by the Government on 28th July 1999. However, its implementation was terminated with regards to preparation of principles of facilitating information and communication activities of IRS departments in the Czech Republic, which will be implemented on the basis of Tetrapol technology (hereinafter PEGAS).

The rules for operations of Inter-ministerial Crisis Board to directly solve a crisis situation were set up. The Committee for Civil Emergency Planning concentrated on e.g. financing of civil emergency planning, incorporation of the State Nuclear Security Institution and the Czech Red Cross into the civil emergency planning system, facilitating of resources for the emergency situations, crisis management training, etc.

The Czech Republic managed to arrange a regional training course for the decision making process in other than military crisis situations and ensured another course to be held with the Canadian experts.

3. Internal Security Policy

3.1. Activities To Date Aimed at Facilitating Internal Security
3.1.1. Conceptual Document Summary
3.1.2. The Survey of Legislation Adopted or Discussed in 1999
3.1.3. Prevention of Crime
3.1.4. European Integration, International Co-operation
3.1.5. Inter-ministerial Co-operation
3.1.6. The Ministry of Interior Organisation and Management, Human Resources and Training, Economy and the Czech Fire Rescue Brigade Activities
3.2. Fundamental Internal Security Activities for 2000
3.2.1. The Conceptual and Analytical Field
3.2.2. Legislation
3.2.3. Prevention
3.2.4. European Integration, International Co-operation
3.2.5. The Ministry of Interior Human Resource, Training, Economic and Management and Organisation Basic Activities

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