Czech national law enforcement agency
Law enforcement agency
Police of the Czech Republic
Policie ?eske republiky
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Abbreviation
| P?R
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Motto
| Pomahat a chranit
To Help and to Protect
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Formed
| 1991
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Preceding agency
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Employees
| 40,152
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Operations jurisdiction
| Czech Republic
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Map of Police of the Czech Republic's jurisdiction
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Governing body
| Ministry of the Interior (Czech Republic)
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General nature
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Headquarters
| Presidium of Police,
Prague
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Agency executive
| - genmjr. Martin Vondra?ek, Police President
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www
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The
Police of the Czech Republic
(
Czech
:
Policie ?eske republiky
) is the national
law enforcement agency
of the
Czech Republic
. It was established on 15 July 1991 under the jurisdiction of the
Ministry of the Interior
. The agency is tasked with protecting citizens, property and public order and as of 2015, there were around 40,500 employees.
[2]
Czech state police cooperates with
municipal police
departments, which are present in local municipalities.
History
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The Police of the Czech Republic took over land management after the communist SNB in the Czech Republic with the exception of military police (provosts) who are part of the army. Members were recruited from the former communist
SNB
(National Security Corps), after passing a vetting "democratic" commission established after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 to eliminate from the police force communist ideologues and agents of the
secret police
. A similar procedure was also undertaken in the then-Slovak Republic. Some police officers were employed by a small federal police force, whose mandate expired on 31 December 1992.
Jurisdiction and organisation
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The Police of the Czech Republic has general jurisdiction in the investigation of misdemeanors and crimes. Its proceedings are overseen by an independent prosecutor, who can bring charges in criminal matters. It does not have jurisdiction in fields falling within the competence of other specialized bodies, such as the Customs service, military police, judicial guard or the Secret service. P?R is the main investigative body of the Ministry of the Interior. It should not be confused with the
municipal police
, which may be established by a municipality and which supervises public order and road safety;
municipal police
also have jurisdiction only over
misdemeanours
, and in criminal investigations may serve only in a supportive role for the state police.
The Police of the Czech Republic is responsible for search and rescue operations and on this behalf cooperates with
Mountain Rescue Service of the Czech Republic
that is highly professional rescue agency.
Some crimes (such as
terrorism
) are being solved in co-operation with
intelligence agencies
such as
BIS
or
UZSI
.
On-duty officers are obliged to carry service weapons depending on the nature of their work (administrative vs. field work) or by their superior executive officer ordinance.
Regardless of being assigned to nationwide or regional units all police officers while on or off-duty have the right (and obligation) to act if the crime or serious offense is happening and life, health or property may be in imminent danger. Civilian employees of police are obliged to act only while on-duty.
[3]
Generally, police officers are not allowed to carry service weapons while off-duty if not approved by regional or unit police chief, which is on condition that
their life may be in serious immediate danger
. If a police officer still wants to carry a weapon off-duty, he/she has to use their personal handgun like any other armed citizen. Off-duty officers can use their personal weapon when acting as a police officer (which makes him on-duty).
Organisation
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- Police President of the Czech Republic
- Office of the Police President
- First Deputy for External Service (uniformed)
- Protection Service
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service
- Aviation Service
- Police Education and Service Training Unit
- Directorate of
Alien and Border Police
Service
- Directorate of Public Order Police Service
- Directorate of Traffic Police Service
- Directorate of Weapons and Security Material Service
- Deputy for Criminal Police and Investigation Service
- Bureau of Criminal Police and Investigation Service
- National Headquarters Against Organized Crime of the CPIS (NCOZ)
- National Counterterrorism, Extremism, and Cybercrime Agency of the CPIS (NCTEKK)
- National Drug Headquarters of the CPIS (NPC)
- Unit for Special Operations of the CPIS (US?)
- Unit for Intelligence Gathering of the CPIS (UZ?)
- Rapid Response Unit
(URNA)
- Office of Documentation and Investigation of Crime of Communism of the CPIS
- Deputy for Economics
- Logistics Support Administration
- Directorate of Administration and Service Support
- Regional
Police Directorates
- Capital City Prague
- Central Bohemian Region
- South Bohemian Region
- Plze? Region
- Karlovy Vary Region
- Usti nad Labem Region
- Liberec Region
- Hradec Kralove Region
- Pardubice Region
- South Moravian Region
- Vyso?ina Region
- Zlin Region
- Moravian-Silesian Region
- Olomouc Region
Nationwide jurisdiction
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- Institute of Criminalistics Prague
- Aviation Service
- National Headquarters Against Organized Crime of the Criminal Police and Investigation Service - created in August 2016 by joining two nationwide operating units of the Criminal Police and Investigation Service:
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- Unit for Organized Crime
- Unit for Corruption and Financial Criminality
- National Drug Headquarters of the Criminal Police and Investigation Service
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- Unit for Special Operations of the Criminal Police and Investigation Service - cover IDs,
undercover cops
, fake money transfers, short-term protection of important crime witnesses (support unit, no investigation)
- Unit for Intelligence Gathering of the Criminal Police and Investigation Service -
wiretapping
,
personal surveillance
, etc. (support unit, no investigation)
[5]
- Office of Documentation and Investigation of Crime of Communism of the Criminal Police and Investigation Service
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service
- Directorate of
Alien and Border Police
Service
- Unit for Protection of the President of the Czech Republic
- Unit for Protection of constitutional office holders
- Police Education and Service Training Unit
- Rapid Response Unit
Regional jurisdiction
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There are 14 regional headquarters, with jurisdictions covering the
regions of the Czech Republic
.
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Police officers serving under regional HQs are usually organized in the following sections:
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- Public Order Police Service (
Slu?ba po?adkove policie
) - general and largest, most versatile, police officers on general patrolling duty serving at local and district police stations, most usually first responders. Squad cars usually manned by two officers, apart from pistols usually with at least one select-fire gun stored in car's rear seats or trunk.
- Public Order Units - perform specific tasks in the area of protecting people and property, special equipment and training, most often dispatched in large numbers (riot gear for crowd control, assault rifles for active shooter engagement, assisting criminal police, etc.). Squad minivans usually with seven heavily armed policemen.
- Intervention Units - regional SWAT teams (8 teams covering 14 regions). Mainly for assisting criminal police with arresting dangerous offenders who have committed extremely serious crimes or to perform preliminary measures against terrorists, kidnappers or hijackers. They may be even assigned tasks related to the protection of buildings or the transport of dangerous substances, objects or valuables. Apart from cars equipped also with transport helicopters.
- Rapid Response Units - these units reinforce the public order units on patrolling duty in selected areas of the country. Squad cars usually with two or three policemen armed with submachine guns.
- Waterway Units - assigned duties at waterway stations established at major waterways. They control compliance with navigation rules and the Water Act, maintain public order on waterways and bodies of water, help rescue drowning people and clearing up after floods and other natural disasters.
- Police Divers - assigned not only to waterway stations but also to intervention and rapid deployment units.
- Railway Units - in train stations of major railway hubs, also operate in trains (catching thieves, looters)
- Cynology
Service - training of dogs and dog handlers, about 800 dogs are in active service with the Czech Police (K9 officers themselves are part of the above-mentioned units)
- Hippology
Service - training of horses and mounted policemen mainly for patrolling in natural reserve areas and for riot duty (mounted policemen themselves are part of the above-mentioned units)
- Traffic Police Service - supervising the safety and flow of road traffic, dealing with traffic accidents and to check whether traffic rules are followed.
- Weapons and Security Material Service - deals with
civilian firearms ownership and issuing of gun licenses
, business with military equipment, explosives, gun ranges etc.
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service - apart from disposing of explosive materials also provides expert opinions in the field of forensic pyrotechnics
- Criminal Police and Investigation Service - second largest service, usually divided into:
- White Collar Crime Division (Operative Search, Investigation) - economical, tax, currency related crime
- Usually divided into specialized sections (according of size of department)
- Analytics and Cybercrime Division (analytics for other two divisions, cybercrime)
- General Crime Division (Operative Search, Investigation) - usually divided into specialized sections (according of size of department):
- 1st Section - Homicides, violent crimes, suicides
- 2nd Section - Robberies, extortions/blackmail
- 3rd Section - Sexual and/or juvenile related crime, rape, prostitution
- 4th Section - Vehicle thefts
- 5th Section - Thefts, property related crime
- 6th Section - Search for people and things
- 7th Section - Permanent crime scene response unit
- 8th Section - Drug related crime
- 9th Section - Extremism, racially motivated crime, hooligans
- Forensic Laboratories and Expertise Service (OKTE)
- Operative Documentation Division
- Technical Security Division
Equipment
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As of 2011, the Police of the Czech Republic employs about 41,000 officers, with a ratio of about 45 officers per 10,000 population.
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Of these, about 3,500 are traffic-police officers.
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Transport
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Cars and motorcycles
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- Typical patrol cars:
- Typical offroad patrol cars:
- Typical traffic police vehicles:
- Other:
Helicopters
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Watercraft
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2 motorboats
Marine 15Y
on the Elbe river in
Usti nad Labem Region
, since 2006.
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Since 2016, a new cabin boat was delivered.
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At
Slapy Reservoir
in the Vltava river, the 15 years old police boat was replaced in 2015 with 2 new boats. In 2015, 16 new police boats (6× cabin boats
Tinnsilver 870-Cabin
and 10× low-draft boats
Alunautic LC 7,50
) were delivered, 5 of them to Central Bohemian Region (3 cabin boats and 2 low-draft boats). Other of the police boats were delivered to Orlik Reservoir on the Vltava, to Elbe in Nymburk, and other to South Bohemian Region, Hradec Kralove Region and Pardubice Region.
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River departments of police are in
Slapy Reservoir
and
Prague
on the
Vltava
and in
Usti nad Labem
and
Nymburk
on the
Elbe
, other boats are used by local police departments on
Lipno Reservoir
,
Orlik Reservoir
,
Nove Mlyny Reservoir
and others.
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The Prague river department of the police had in 2004 two cabin boats MB 075 produced in
GDR
, and planned to replace their Russian
ZiL
engines with Volvo Penta engines. Other watercraft was 5-meter ship Mayer with a Volvo Penta engine, 6-meter
SeeStar Patrol
boat with Volvo Penta engine, 4-meter
Ryds 500 GTS
boat, two rubber boats: 5-meter Bombard with Mercury 25 engine and 4-meter Quick Silver with Johnson 10 engine.
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In Prague, also the Municipal Police has their watercraft.
Firearms
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The following
firearms
are used by the Police of the Czech Republic:
Handguns
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Shotguns
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Submachine guns
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Carbines
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Sniper rifles
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Grenade launchers
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Other
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See also
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References
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"Po?et p?islu?nik? Policie ?eske republiky - Policie ?eske republiky"
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www.policie.cz
. Retrieved
10 December
2019
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"Chovanec chce na policejni nabor p?es deset miliard, Babi? neni proti"
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?T24
(in Czech). ?T24. 14 May 2015
. Retrieved
14 May
2015
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For both policemen or civilians this obligation may be formally fulfilled just by immediately informing on-duty officers on emergency line.
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Organisation structure of Czech Police (2017, page 5, cs+en)
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Nationwide units of Criminal Police and Investigation Service have local field offices in Brno, Ostrava, Olomouc (NCOZ only), ?eske Bud?jovice, Plze?, Usti nad Labem and Hradec Kralove
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"Policie ?eske republiky"
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www.policie.cz
. Retrieved
10 December
2019
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"John: Po?et policist? by m?l nadale klesat"
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?eske noviny
. Retrieved
1 March
2011
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"Ekonomicka efektivnost - dopravni p?estupky"
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policie.cz
. Retrieved
1 March
2011
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"Letecka slu?ba Policie ?R"
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vrtulnik.cz
. Retrieved
1 March
2011
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"Bell Helicopter sells first Bell 412EPI in Europe to Czech Police"
. Textron. 18 June 2015
. Retrieved
12 December
2015
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Helicopter crashed on 5 March 2011, see
planes.cz spotters
Archived
7 March 2011 at the
Wayback Machine
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Po?i?ni oddil Policie ?eske republiky ziskal od Usteckeho kraje zachranne ?luny
, Ustecky kraj, 27 November 2006
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Policiste na Labi maji vice prace. P?ibylo rekrea?nich plaveb
, Ustecky denik, 11. June 2016
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Novy kajutovy ?lun na po?i?nim odd?leni
, Policie ?eske republiky ? K?P Usteckeho kraje
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Ladislav Jerie:
Vym?na policejnich ?lun? na Slapech za nove u? byla nutna
, Denik.cz, 9 December 2015
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Policie ziskala pro po?i?ni odd?leni 16 novych ?lun? za 73 mil.K?
, 4 Dezember 2015
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Po?i?ni odd?leni P?R hl. m?sta Prahy na vystav? Lod? Praha
, 23. 11. 2004
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Fitch, P. E. (8 February 2023).
"The Glock 47"
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GAT Daily (Guns Ammo Tactical)
. Retrieved
7 May
2023
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"Archived copy"
(PDF)
. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 20 April 2015
. Retrieved
18 April
2015
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"Elitni odst?elova?i pali u? na dvojku"
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Novinky.cz
. Retrieved
10 December
2019
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