Perplexity in legal regulation of searching premises and persons

Abstract

The following text considers the regulations of Criminal Procedure Act which deals with searching of premises and persons, as an evidence act. Chosen problem has been elaborated through analysis of existing legal solutions which arrange notion, type of searching, search proceedings and rights of a person which is subjected to this act, with consideration of foreign experience and standards in European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. We put special attention on legal solutions that arising perplexity, as regulations which deals with type of searching legal grounds for searching, post-pone the beginning of the search until legal representative come and presence of witnesses during this act.

U tekstu koji sledi problematizovane su odredbe Zakonika o krivičnom postupku koje regulišu pretresanje stana i lica, kao radnju dokazivanja. Izabrana problematika obrađena je kroz analizu postojećih zakonskih rešenja, kojima se uređuju pojam, vrste, postupak pretresanja stana i lica i prava lica koje je podvrgnuto ovoj radnji, uz uvažavanje inostranih iskustava i standarda predviđenih Evropskom konvencijom za zaštitu ljudskih prava i osnovnih sloboda. Posebna pažnja posvećena je zakonskim rešenjima koja izazivaju nedoumice, kao što su odredbe kojima se određuju vrste pretresanja, pravni osnov za pretresanje, propisuje obavezno odlaganje početka pretresanja do dolaska advokata, odnosno branioca i prisustvo svedoka prilikom preduzimanja ove radnje.