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The Use of an Agent and Issues of Police Provocation
Řepíková, Kristýna ; Dvořák, Marek (advisor) ; Šelleng, Dalibor (referee)
The Use of an Agent and Issues of Police Provocation Abstract This work focuses on the use of an agent, one of the operative searching means contained in § 158e of the Criminal Procedure Code. This tool is widely used in the investigation of the most serious crimes, such as organized crime, drug trafficking, or terrorism. If the agent acts as a so- called undercover agent, which is a legally approved concept, it is ideal. The information obtained by the agent controller lawfully can be used as evidence in a specific criminal case. However, the agent controller can by his actions very easily enter the role of an agent provocateur. Police provocation has been described by the European Court of Human Rights and the Czech courts as an inadmissible technique. Its procedural effect in a concrete criminal case is the inapplicability of evidence obtained based on it, due to its absolute ineffectiveness. In this work, it is dealt with the concept of an agent and the related issues of police provocation as follows. The first chapter introduces the issue of the operative searching activity, which includes operative searching means and supporting operative searching means. This is necessary to understanding the concept of an agent. Similarly, the two remaining operative searching means, which are the pretended transfer...
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Criminal law aspects of police provocation
Šulda, Pavel ; Tejnská, Katarína (advisor) ; Šelleng, Dalibor (referee)
1 Criminal law aspects of police provocation Abstract in English This diploma thesis deals with definition of possibly the most exact limit between legal entry of prosecuting authorities to the factual act of the crime and inadmissible police provocation. Following this determination of the limits, which is the main aim of the thesis, it gives the tightest definition of police provocation, it solves possible criminal law consequences of police provocation and it brings a brief analysis of admissibility of further forms of behaviour that can result in an intention of other person to commit a crime. For this purpose the thesis is divided into 4 chapters. The first chapter deals with the problem of police provocation in a broader context of fight against organized crime. It is highlighted the necessity of really careful consideration of the tools and the amount of their usage when fighting organized crime so that their deployment means tolerable rate of interference with human rights and freedoms. The second chapter follows, which deals with general introduction of tools used to fight not only organized crime. These are operational and investigative acitons and supportive operational and investigative actions, using which there most often comes to police provocation. In case of operational and investigative...
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Operational and Investigative actions
Černá, Kateřina ; Tejnská, Katarína (advisor) ; Šelleng, Dalibor (referee)
1 Operational and Investigative actions Abstract Presented thesis deals with the topic of operational investigative actions specified by the Criminal Procedure Code, to which they have been incorporated with effect from 2002. The main aim of this thesis is comprehensive description of the essence and of the domestic applicable legislation of these actions, and also the analysis of possible problematic points and deficiencies. Currently, the mentioned Code in its title nine called procedure prior to initiation a criminal prosecution defines types of these actions in an enumerative way. Those types are pretended transfer, surveillance of the individuals and objects and usage of agent. The thesis itself is divided into six chapters. First chapter is focused on definition of these actions, putting them into context with so called supporting operational investigative actions defined by the Police of the Czech Republic Code, and also on the brief history of their usage in the territory of the Czech Republic. In the second chapter there is a summarization of the general conditions concerning usage of these actions, which apply to all operational investigative actions with few exceptions. Third, fourth and fifth chapter deals with particular operational investigative actions according to the order contained in the...
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Criminal Law Instruments Against Organized Crime
Danková, Katarína ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (referee) ; Ivor, Jaroslav (referee)
This doctoral thesis is concerned with an in-depth analysis of organized crime under criminological and criminal-law aspects, taking an approach that recognizes organized crime as a multi-faceted, dynamically changing category. The importance of this issue derives, firstly, from the grave threat to society which it represents and, secondly, from the on-going international and domestic discussions of the need for better tools to eradicate it. The first part of this work conveys the nature of organized crime, and based upon an understanding of the modern forms of organized crime raises and reappraises the important substantive-law questions of its criminalization and punishment. Organized crime is inseparably associated with the most controversial institutions of procedural criminal law, namely, the institutions of the cooperating accused person, informers, agents provocateurs, and the protected witness, which in the fight against organized crime represent a serious challenge for the fundamental principles of procedural criminal law. A theoretical analysis of these issues follows, which, together with a look on the consequences of the imperfect current Czech legislation being applied in practice, highlights the need for reappraisal and reform of the current laws. The thesis takes a critical,...
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