Review article

AMBUSH AS POLICE AND CRIMINAL’S TACTICS

Adnan Duraković ; Pravni fakultet Univerziteta u Zenici, Bosna i Hercegovina

Abstract

Police patrols are one of the tactics that include moving through specifying area with specific purposes of observation, inspection, or securing. When somebody calls police telephone numbers one can expect that police patrols will come on the scene where they expect that something happened. Mostly police interventions are not dangerous but some of them are. Ambushes against police officers are the most dangerous criminal’s tactics. Police forces use police types of ambushes for realizing police purposes and consist of scheduling police staff in specified space and locations for arresting criminals. Also, criminals, gangs, extremist groups, rebels and mental disturbed persons use ambushes to kill or to hurt police officers with the main purpose to demoralize and destroy police forces. The article focuses on tactics designed like traps or unexpected and unprovoked attack.

Keywords

ambush; patrol; tactics; felony murder

Hrčak ID:

135739

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/135739

Publication date:

15.12.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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