Police and Security, Vol. 33 No. 2, 2024.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.59245/ps.33.2.1
Illegal Possession of Weapons and Explosive Substances
Dinko Ljubić
orcid.org/0000-0002-2705-7192
; Uprava za imigraciju, državljanstvo i upravne poslove, Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Nataša Prišlin
orcid.org/0009-0000-8113-7719
; Uprava za imigraciju, državljanstvo i upravne poslove, Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Josip Ćelić
; Policijska akademija "Prvi hrvatski redarstvenik", MUP RH, Hrvatska
Abstract
This paper examines the problem of illegal possession of weapons and explosive substances, a criminal activity sanctioned by the legislator in the provisions of criminal and misdemeanour law. The paper begins with an overview of what the cited criminal activity signifiess for public safety. Furthermore, it examines a terminological definition of the basic terms contained in special regulations (Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Control of the Acquisition and Possession of Weapons, the Act on the Acquisition and Possession of Weapons by Citizens and the Act on Explosive Substances and the Production of and Trade in Weapons) and it defines the issues and goals. The central part of the paper considers criminal and misdemeanour legal provisions with particular reference to the categorisation of weapons and explosive substances as a key parameter for the distinction between the criminal and misdemeanour domains. Judicial practice and police statistics are also analysed, and special attention is paid to statutory and judicial omissions, deficiencies and contradictions, their elimination and possible improvements. The final part of the paper focuses on conclusions related to normative and practical problems and reached through elaborating on the topic. Eventually, the paper proposes feasible solutions.
Keywords
weapons; firearms; illegal weapons; explosive substances; organised crime
Hrčak ID:
317761
URI
Publication date:
19.6.2024.
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