Law enforcement in Croatia

Police Policija
Emblem of the Croatian Police
Agency overview
Formed	1990
Preceding agency	Milicija (SR Croatia)
Employees	25,670 of which 20,870 are uniformed personnel
Annual budget	4.48 billion HRK (EUR ~600 million or USD ~679 million)[1]
Jurisdictional structure
National agency	HR
Operations jurisdiction	HR
Governing body	Ministry of the Interior
General nature	Local civilian police
Operational structure
Headquarters	Zagreb, Ulica grada Vukovara 33
Minister responsible	Davor Božinović, Minister of Internal Affairs
Agency executive	Marko Srdarević, General Police Director
Police Administrations	20
Facilities
Airbases	Lučko (LDZL)
Helicopters	9
Website
www.policija.hr

Law enforcement in Croatia is the responsibility of the Croatian Police (Croatian: Hrvatska policija), which is the national police force of the country subordinated by the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, carrying out certain tasks, the so-called, police activities, laid down by law.^[2]

The Police deals with the following affairs: protection of individual life, rights, security and integrity, protection of property, prevention and detection of criminal offences, misdemeanors, search for perpetrators of criminal offences, violations and their bringing before competent authorities, control and management of road traffic, conducting affairs with aliens, control and security of state border, and other affairs defined by law.^[3]

In the operative sense, police affairs are divided into affairs related to public peace and order, affairs related to security of public gatherings, affairs of the border police, affairs of safety of road traffic, affairs of counter-explosive protection, affairs of the criminal police, crime-technical affairs, crime-files affairs, administrative affairs, nationality-related affairs, status questions and asylum, affairs of protection and rescue, inspection affairs and technical affairs.^[3]

In recent years, the force has been undergoing a reform with assistance from international agencies, including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe since OSCE Mission to Croatia began there on 18 April 1996, with Croatia being admitted to OSCE on March 24, 1992.^[4]