Original scientific paper
Disciplinary responsibility of police officers – de lege lata and de lege ferenda
Damir Juras
orcid.org/0000-0002-2933-5897
; MoIRC, Split, Croatia
Hrvoje Filipović
; Police Academy, Police College, MoIRC, Zagreb Croatia
Abstract
The disciplinary responsibility of police officers is the focus of police officers, but also of the public. The purpose of disciplinary proceedings is to sanction violations of the rules of work and conduct, i.e., to
ensure the orderly and efficient operation of the service. The peculiarity of the disciplinary responsibility of police officers is that they are also responsible for misconduct outside the service. Police officers
may be liable to disciplinary action and criminal or misdemeanor for the same action, and decisions in disciplinary and criminal or misdemeanor proceedings do not affect each other. In the paper, several
significant researches were performed, starting with normative analysis, followed by the analysis of case law with statistical indicators for the period from 2017 to 2021 and comprehensive empirical research in which students of the Police College participated (N = 210). At the end of the paper, numerous proposals were made to amend the legislation on the disciplinary responsibility of police officers.
Keywords
attitudes of Police College students; disciplinary proceedings; disciplinary responsibility; police; police officers
Hrčak ID:
285045
URI
Publication date:
2.11.2022.
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