Pursuant to the law, the police service performs the following tasks:
- protecting life, personal safety and property of people;
- preventing, discovering and inspecting penal acts and minor offences, discovering and arresting those committing penal acts and minor offences, other wanted persons and their extradition to the authorised bodies;
- maintaining public order;
- control and regulation of traffic on public roads and non-categorised roads used for public traffic;
- protecting the state border and performing border control;
- performing tasks defined in the regulations about foreigners;
- protecting certain persons, bodies, buildings and districts;
- protecting certain working places and the secrecy of information of state bodies, if not otherwise defined by law; and
- performing tasks defined in the Law on Police and other laws and secondary legislation documents.
More information: Areas of work
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