Motor vehicle theft as contemporary form of organized crime in Serbian crime investigation practice

Abstract

The first part of the paper outlines the normative and legal framework within which criminal law provides protection of motor vehicles and lists the problems encountered by the judiciary in the practical implementation of legal provisions. The central part of the paper focuses on the modus operandi of organized criminal groups engaged in the perpetration of such criminal acts, particularly in the organization and deployment of various electronic tools used to overcome electronic protection of modern vehicle makes. Finally, the authors emphasize the fact that investigative activities aimed at tracking down organized criminal groups and identifying the roles of their members call for an approach that differs from that used for detecting other criminal acts and point out to the main guidelines for police activities aimed at dealing with such cases.

U prvom delu rada autori ukazuju na normativno-pravni okvir kojim se obezbeđuje krivično-pravna zaštita motornih vozila i na probleme koji se pojavljuju u njegovoj praktičnoj primeni od strane policije i pravosuđa. Centralni deo rada tretira modus operandi organizovanih kriminalnih grupa vezan za ovu vrstu krivičnih dela, a u prvom redu organizaciju kriminalne aktivnosti i primenu različitih elektronskih alata u cilju savlađivanja elektronske zaštite prisutne na novijim tipovima vozila. Na kraju, autori ukazuju na činjenicu da kriminalistička delatnost razotkrivanja organizovanih kriminalnih grupa oformljenih za vršenje krivičnih dela krađa vozila, njihove strukture i uloge pojedinih članova, zahteva drugačiji pristup u odnosu na druga krivična dela, te ukazuju na osnovne pravce policijske delatnosti koja se preduzima u tom cilju.