EFEKTIVNOST I EFIKASNOST POLICIJE REPUBLIKE SRBIJE U SUZBIJANjU NARKO KRIMINALITETA

Skakavac Zdravko (Факултет за правне и пословне студије др „Лазар Вркатић“ Нови Сад), zskakavac@useens.com
Klisarić Milan

The subject matter of this paper is the effectiveness and efficiency of the Serbian police in combating drug crime, as well as key dimensions of quality of police work. The aim of the paper is to identify and examine the key determinants of the effectiveness and efficiency of the police in combating drug crime, their relations and the basic problems of assessing the effectiveness and efficiency achieved in the long term. The study performed a content analysis of normative and strategic documents of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and statistical analysis of data relating to trends in drug crime of adult and juvenile persons in Serbia in the period 2002–2013, the results of the police in combating drug crime in the period 2009–2014, data on trends in the number of drug addicts in Serbia, trends of increasing the age limit for recruitment of new addicts and other influencing factors. The research results show the existing growth trends of drug crime of adult and juvenile persons, an increase in the number of drug addicts, the expansion of the lower and upper age of drug addicts, and that there are nonlinear and inconsistent increase in the number of seizures of drugs at national level and the successful operation of the detection of illegal drug laboratories and the arrests, insufficient for the long-term effectiveness and efficiency of combating drug crime. Finally, the paper presents recommendations for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of combating drug crime, in particular, the approach of the police and citizens in the local area on the model of Community Policing and establishing an integrated database on the model Intelligence Led Policing.

Ključne reči: effectiveness, efficiency, drug crime, combat, strategy, quality