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Slovenia Police History

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4.1 Slovenian Police
Until 1991 when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia, Slovenian police, then called People’s Police (slov. “Milica”) was subordinated to the Slovenian Secretariat of the Interior (Kolenc, 2003). Its organization and tasks were defined by the Internal Affairs Act (1980), which was amended several times. The police tasks related to protecting life, personal safety and property of the people; maintaining public order; control and regulation of traffic; preventing, discovering and inspecting criminal offences and minor offences, protecting the state border and performing border control, etc. However, the People’s Police was considered as an additional armed force, which would help the Yugoslav People’s Army [YPA] (slov. “Jugoslovanska …show more content…

At least two laws from times of socialism – the mentioned Internal Affairs Act (1980) and the General People’s Defence and Social Self-protection Act (1982) – mention that internal affairs bodies (whose part the police were) have to prepare for their function in a state of war. Further, Article 127 of the General People’s Defence and Social Self-protection Act (1982) provides that the People’s Police can be used in combat tasks in a state of war and in threat of war. Moreover, Article 40 of the Defence and Protection Act (1991) which was passed by already democratically elected National Assembly of Slovenia just a few months before declaration of Slovenian independence, replacing the General People’s Defence and Social Self-protection Act from 1982, states that Ministry of the Interior decides on the use of the internal affairs units for combat tasks in the state of war. Article 43 of this law furthermore “elaborates” the power of the Ministry of the Interior, providing that “in the state of war and if claimed by circumstances, unit of the internal affairs bodies can be used for the execution of certain combat tasks.” This mean in practice, that all Slovenian police officers (regular and those in reserve) were for decades also trained in military tactics and some light military …show more content…

It is expected from every Constitution to be clear about most important functions of the state, however, one can say a new Constitution lacks of clarity when it comes to security matters. The Constitution speaks about “defence forces” but it does not define them. Thus, it is only the Defence Act passed in 1994 who clearly states that military defence is done by defence forces consisting of Slovenian Armed Forces (SAS). However, was this really so? In 1998 the Police Act (1998) replaced the Internal Affairs Act (1980) and the police became more independent from the Ministry of the Interior, while the tasks remained almost the same. What is interesting is that the role of the police in the potential war was (again) not clearly defined! Article 17 of the Police Act (1998) namely states, that the police harmonises its organisation, forms and methods of work to the new circumstances in a state of war. On the proposal of the Government, National Assembly decides about the different use of the police in a state of emergency and in a state of

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