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Public order is particularly affected by street crime46) (thefts from cars, pick pocketing, robbery, spreading drug abuse etc.), and also by crime with an extremist subtext (car accidents, rowdyism, etc.). The present state of this kind of crime and its trends are described in more detail in the relevant chapters. The incidence of such crime and the detection rate affect the degree to which citizens feel safe. A number of preventative measures taken by basic police departments have contributed to the fact that there have not been any more serious or more extensive breaches of the peace. All assemblies of persons where the public order and peace were breached were held at the local level (the Global Street Party is considered to be the most serious).
Whenever the assembly of persons had been known in advance the police took adequate measures. The police responded also to unlawful assemblies. The taken measures led to restoration of public order. The persons who carried out illegal conducts were in the most cases submitted to legal recourse. The professional police competence in this area is better. The loose approach of the police to right-winged extremists is often criticised, bu tvery often the police get into a situation in which they cannot intervene. As in the Western countries also Czech Republic police try to separate hostile groups and interfere with the persons who offensively breach the public order and commit crimes.
1,793 (+297) persons were lawfully sentenced for “breach of public order and hooliganisms” (a crime of rowdyism in accordance with Sec. 202 of the Criminal Code).
2. Crime, Development in Individual Kinds of Crime and Security Risks