Analysis of characteristic novelties in the Police Law: Critical review

Abstract

Although it had not yet reached full-capacity implementation, the Police Law experienced changes as early as March 18. It took full two years to detect certain shortcomings both in terms of the immediate enforcement of the legal provisions and regarding the adoption of secondary legislation. For the purposes of this paper, novelties can be classified in several groups: 1) novelties of a general character, 2) organizational-functional novelties, and 3) labor-law novelties. The greatest number of innovations is in the field of labor-law relations of a specific officer's (career) system in the Ministry of the Interior. The authors analyze some of the characteristic novelties with a critical review of the exercised freedoms and rights of citizens, especially police officers, but also their obligations. At the same time, they point out to some additional novelties de lege ferenda.

Iako još uvek nije primenjen u punom kapacitetu, Zakon o policiji je već u martu 2018. godine doživeo izmene i dopune. Trebalo je pune dve godine da se uoče određeni nedostaci kako u neposrednoj primeni normi zakona, tako i sa aspekta donošenja sekundarne legislative. Za potrebe ovog rada novele možemo svrstati u nekoliko grupa: 1) novele opšteg karaktera, 2) organizaciono-funkcionalne novele i 3) radno-pravne novele. Najveći broj novela je iz oblasti radno-pravnog odnosa, konkretno specifičnog službeničkog (karijernog) sistema u MUP-u. Autori u radu analiziraju neke od karakterističnih novela uz kritički osvrt na ostvarivanje sloboda i prava građana, naročito policijskih službenika, ali i njihovih obaveza. Istovremeno su ukazali na još neke novele de lege ferenda.