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Policing in the Slovak Republic: The Organization and Current Problems of Police Work

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The Police hold one of the most important roles within the modern society from the viewpoint of providing and maintaining peace, order and security. In the Slovak Republic the police have been in existence for a relatively short time, but legislation regulating their activities and structure has already undergone several reforms. This treatise contains information regarding the structure and tasks of the Police of the Slovak Republic, discusses the development of criminality within the Slovak Republic, and analyses the current social status of the Police.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Security Management, University of Žilina, Žilina, Slovakia

    Josef Reitšpís, Libor Gašpierik & Kamil Boc

  2. Ministry of the Interior, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Miroslav Felcan

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  1. Josef Reitšpís
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Correspondence to Josef Reitšpís .

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  1. Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Ulica Bratov Babnik 10, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia

    Gorazd Meško

  2. , College of Justice and Safety, Eastern Kentucky University, Lancaster Avenue 521, Richmond, 40475, USA

    Charles B. Fields

  3. , Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Kotnikova 8, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia

    Branko Lobnikar

  4. , Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Kotnikova 8, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia

    Andrej Sotlar

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Reitšpís, J., Gašpierik, L., Boc, K., Felcan, M. (2013). Policing in the Slovak Republic: The Organization and Current Problems of Police Work. In: Meško, G., Fields, C., Lobnikar, B., Sotlar, A. (eds) Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6720-5_14

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