Professional paper

Analysis of prevention activities during tourist season

Sanja Delač Fabris orcid.org/0009-0001-9352-3809 ; Odjel prevencije, Policijska uprava istarska, Hrvatska
Alica Rosić Jakupović orcid.org/0009-0007-2742-6879 ; Odjel prevencije, Policijska uprava istarska, Hrvatska

Abstract

The article “Analysis of prevention activities during tourist season” is based on the operational-prevention work of police officers from the Prevention department of the Istrian Police Administration and on observations of the current security situation regarding the quality of protection measures in critical tourist objects.
The aim of this work is to coordinate police prevention measures and activities through observing the security situation and criminal offence occurrences at the crime scene, through conversation with persons in charge of tourist objects and persons in charge of internal security and security companies in tourist objects, as well as through visiting tourist objects and observing internal security measures.
For the purpose of operationalising police activities in the field, the Istrian Police Administration developed a Plan of activities: eight activities with defined tasks for determining the condition of critical tourist objects in the sense of occupancy, internal security measures, organisation of internal security service and security companies responsible for security measures in the tourist object; for the undertaking of security measures; for the education and instigation to self-protective behaviour among guests; for the instigation to communication with police officers; and for the gathering of interesting operative information which could contribute to crime solving.
Operational-preventive police work resulted in SWOT and TOWS analyses where the security of tourist objects is represented through strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The outside opportunities and threats are matched with internal strengths and weaknesses. The results are four sets of alternative strategies.
Finally, this work lists recommendations for future security work for tourist objects and guidelines for police officers in police stations, delivered to both of them..

Keywords

prevention activities, occurrences of criminal offences, tourist season, tourist objects, recommendations for work, security, protective measures, SWOT, TOWS

Hrčak ID:

281020

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/281020

Publication date:

29.7.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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