22 May 2007
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The Republic of Croatia is situated in central Europe, and it borders with the Republic of Slovenia, Republic of Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia and Montenegro. Area-Population- Language
Legislative power in the Republic of Croatia lies with the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia. The President of the Republic of Croatia is elected for the period of five years. Executive power in the Republic of Croatia lies with the Government of the Republic of Croatia, and it is headed by the Prime Minister, who acts according to advice and joint decisions of relevant ministers.
Government authorities competent for the prevention and suppression of criminal offences are the following: the police, which acts as part of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, the State Attorney’s Office of the Republic of Croatia, which also includes the Office for the Suppression of Organized Crime and Corruption, and Customs Administration, the Office for the Suppression of Money Laundering and Tax Administration, which are part of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia. The police The police represents a public service of the Ministry of the Interior which deals with the following affairs: protection of individual life, rights, security and integrity, protection of property, prevention and detection of criminal offences, misdemeanors, violations, search for perpetrators of criminal offences, misdemeanors, violations and their bringing before competent authorities, control and management of road traffic, conducting affairs with aliens, control and security of state border, and other affairs defined by law. In the operative sense, police affairs are divided into affairs related to public peace and order, affairs related to security of public gatherings, affairs of the border police, affairs of safety of road traffic, affairs of counter-explosive protection, affairs of the criminal police, crime-technical affairs, crime-files affairs, administrative affairs, nationality-related affairs, status questions and asylum, affairs of protection and rescue, inspection affairs and technical affairs.
The Ministry of the Interior constituted the General Police Directorate as an administrative organization for conducting police affairs. General Police Directorate is headed by General Police Director. There are the following organization forms within General Police Directorate:
For immediate conducting of police affairs there are 20 police districts divided into four categories, which cover the territory of the Republic of Croatia according to the organization of units of local self-government. Attachment:
As the organizational unit within the General Police Directorate, Criminal Police Directorate, International Police Cooperation Department, Interpol Zagreb works as the Section within the mentioned Department. In the framework of the mentioned Department an operative-communication centre with 24 hrs duty, which enables the flow of information for the organized units of the criminal police within the police districts and Interpol Zagreb, was organized. Interpol Zagreb is the contact point for all questions which refer to the international investigations.
The system of the three-way partition at the legislative, judiciary and executive authority was established by the Croatian Constitution. The courts in the Republic of Croatia are: Municipal courts, District courts, The Supreme court of the Republic of Croatia and the Constitutional court of the Republic of Croatia. The Municipal courts conduct trials in the proceedings of the first, the District courts in the proceedings of the second and the Supreme court in the proceedings of the third instance.
The State Attorneys, who work within the State Attorney's Office, which is completely independent from the courts, have the legal authority of initiating the criminal procedure. When dealing with affairs from their authority, the State Attorneys have an authority of a direct contact and requesting the assistance, i.e. submitting the request to the police officers.
(*) All mentioned means are possible according to the national legislation, but the means marked are being familiarised by the police
4.3.1 Croatian liaison officers abroad Croatian liaison officer at the General Secretary of Interpol and Croatian liaison officer at SECI Centre in Bucharest, Romania. 4.3.2 Foreign liaison officers acting in the R Croatia Foreign liaison officers in the R Croatia are: French liaison officer, Greek liaison officer and Italian liaison officer. Liaison officers of the Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Finland, Island, Norway and Sweden), Austria, Germany (BKA and BGS), Canada, USA (FBI), Belgium and the Netherlands at the Embassies of the a/m countries outside the territory of Croatia also cover territory of the R Croatia.
Croatian Customs Service is not authorised to carry out criminal investigations, i.e. to undertake criminal investigations, but in justified cases Customs Service can obtain data from police files. Provisions of Customs Act provide for cases in which customs officers can obtain certain police powers.
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