The Government of the Czech Republic on 6. April 2022 approved a new Crime Prevention Strategy in the Czech Republic for the years 2022-2027. The new strategy builds on the current system and responds to new threats in crime prevention. The biggest difference compared to the previous strategy is mainly the extension of the strategy’s objectives, which are currently divided into the following 7 objectives:
- Support and development of the crime prevention system in the Czech Republic
- Assistance and support to crime victims
- Working with criminals, recidivism prevention
- Comprehensive and coordinated approach to security in high-risk localities, the work of the Police of the Czech Republic in relation to minorities
- Situational crime prevention and new approaches
- Crime committed by and on children
- Cybercrime prevention
The previous strategy was adopted in 2016, since then the pandemic in particular has had a significant impact on the development of crime, which on the one hand has generally reduced the level of crime, but at the same time partially transferred it to cyberspace. However, lower levels of crime caused by pandemic measures are already returning to pre-pandemic numbers, and the new strategy anticipates this development. However, the strategy does not, of course, respond to the current conflict in Ukraine, which will undoubtedly have a negative impact on the level and system of crime prevention.
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