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Basic Problems of Robbery Detection

A total numbers of crimes (traffic crimes excluded) in Croatia is basically increasing but not gradually - until 1977 it had been in significant decline, and only after taht year it has made significant growth. For example, it ranged from 48.292 in year 1997 to 77.653 in year 2003. Compared to year 1999 it increased in year 2003 for 39%, and comapred to year 1994 for 21%. Just opposite crime acts in total, robbery crimes in Republic of Croatia show tendency for permanent increase. It was twice bigger in year 2003 then it had been in year 1999, and even three times bigger then in year 1994. This paper tries to reassess ability of Croatian police to meet this challenge. According to our estimation the Croatian police should face formal reorganization and make additional efforts in professional education of police officers at all levels if it wants to respond adequately to dramatic changes in crime structure. The authors of the paper are focused at: 1) relations between uniforms and crime police and 2)distribution of police forces regarding severity of crimes.In the paper this problem is analysed through robbery crime, but the analysis might applyto other crimes too. The authors estimate that within the frame of current organization and ways of acting the Croatian police would not be able to respond adequately to these changes. The authors find that there are many models that might be used as examples of more effective police work and that they should be assessed regarding specific Croatian situation.

robbery; police; detection

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