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PROBATION SERVICE IN REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Jana Špero, Head of the Sector for ProbationMinistry of Justice of the RoC
The Probation Service in the Republic of Croatia is a new service
Croatian Criminal Justice System was engaged in a series of reforms within the Republic of Croatia Accession to the European Union (Croatia is a member of EU since 1st July 2013 )
The judicial reform carried out has provided a strong support to the development of the Probation System in Republic of Croatia
Croatian Probation Service was set up as an administrative organization under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Directorate for Criminal Law and Probation
SECTOR FOR PROBATION
Croatia
All the tasks within the scope of the Sector for Probation are conducted in the Central Office and 12 Probation Offices:
ESTABLISHMENT OF A PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
As regards juvenile offenders, the Republic of Croatia has a long history of conducting measures similar to probation measures
Regarding adult offenders, in 1999, the RoC started implementing protective supervision and community work (a special law was adopted)- the system was established under the Prison system directorate by engaging “commissioners”
The increase of “alternative sanctions and measures”- as a way of reducing the costs of the criminal justice system – first Law on Probation adopted in 2009.
Probation tasks in Republic of CroatiaLaw on probation
(entered into force 01/01/2013)
Pre-trial Criminal trial
Enforcement of “alternative sanctions”
Enforcement of sanction
Supervision of fulfilling obligations arising from the Decisions issued by the State Attorney (when deciding on criminal proceedings in accordance with the principle of opportunity)
Pre-sentence reports to the Court
Protective supervision ordered with:
-Suspended sentence
-Community work
Protective supervision ordered with:
-conditional release
-upon the end of the prison sentence
Reports to the Prosecutor (State Attorney)
Community service:-acquiring consent for replacing a prison sentence with community work- organization of the community work-supervision of the community work
Reports for prisons or penitentiaries
Reports required for deciding on the measures of supervision and protection during pre- trial
(CW:1d=2h)Reports for courts when deciding on the termination of sentence and conditional release
Statistics:
3059
act
ive c
ase
s(
Septe
mber
2014.)
CONDITIONAL RELEASE 742
COMMUNITY WORK2008
SUSPENDED SENTENCE WITH SUPERVISION
206
Probation Service was in 2014 engaged in flood
damage recovery
Community work – the most common “alternative
sanction”
flooding in the Eastern part of Croatia in 2014
Sava River reached record highs, rupturing river embankments, several thousand residents needed to be evacuated from the flooded areas
the Probation Service saw the chance for offenders on probation to provide the best possible “community service”
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all Probation Offices were ordered to urgently provide reports on the number of offenders who were sentenced to community service and who meet the criteria to be employed in the recovery of the flooded areas
The Probation Service had close cooperation with:
the National Protection and Rescue Directorate,
local authorities, Red Cross, Caritas, Military, police forces, firefighters other authorities involved in the recovery.
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During this difficult period, the Probation Service seized the opportunity for its contribution in two different ways:
by identifying and sending as many probationers as possible to the flooded areas to provide immediate assistance in recovering damages
by instructing all available probationers to report to those legal entities which collected humanitarian aid
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Within 24 hours a group of 30 probationers was put together
They were situated at the Volunteer Camp in the affected area.
They provided much needed assistance by:
clearing roadways, yards removing decayed carcasses pumping the water out of residences, cellars and other similar necessary work
Besides help on-site, they also unloaded and sorted out humanitarian aid and maintained the camp grounds
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Due to the specificity of the tasks (extremely challenging conditions and complex group dynamics) the probation officers conducted daily motivational conversations with the probationers in the field with the aim to provide for the best continuing performance.
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physicians who are involved in the Probation Service were also engaged and tasked with visiting and giving their support to the evacuated population
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The probation officers regularly participated in the work of the local crisis staff
Offenders on probation, continuously performed their work from 30 May until the closing of the Volunteer Camp on 23 June, completing over 11000 hours of community service
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Office Manager of the Probation office Osijek
Looking forward to future cooperation
Ministry of Justice of the Republic of CroatiaDirectorate for Criminal law and ProbationSector for ProbationUlica grada Vukovara 4910 000 ZagrebCROATIAtel: +385 1 37 14 234fax: +385 1 37 14 299e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]