POLICIJA KAO TEMELJ SIGURNOSTI U DRŽAVI
POLICE AS THE FOUNDATION OF SECURITY IN THE STATE

Summary/Abstract: Security is one of the basic or primary human needs like other primary human needs that are closely related to the existence of every human being. In democratic societies, security is implied by the order in society, i.e., the observance of positive legal regulations, which is commonly called an active rule of law. The need for security or order in social communities is as old as human life. The police in all regulated social systems, among other things, guarantee security to all its citizens, namely the security function of the police in society is one of the basic functions of the police in society. The police are created together with the state and have always been an apparatus of coercion in the hands of the rulers to maintain the ruling conceptions of public order, and any deviation from the prescribed norms is subject to sanctions that are within the scope of police work. The state of security in society is usually presented statistically through the relationship between negative security phenomena and the effectiveness of those in charge of prevention and repression of negative security phenomena. However, the account for the security situation in the country cannot be paid only to the police but to all factors that directly or indirectly participate in the prevention and repression of negative security phenomena. Despite everything, we can state that the security situation in the Republic of Croatia is satisfactory, considering the movement of negative security phenomena, especially the most serious ones in the field of organized and economic crime.

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