Judicial police, functions and its development in Albania

• Author: Asllan Dogjani - Arben V. Prifti
• Position: Deputy in the Albanian Parliament - Mediterranean University of Tirana
• Pages: 310-320

ISSN 2410-3918

Acces online at www.iipccl.org IIPCCL Publishing, Tirana-Albania

Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences Vol. 2 No. 1

March 2016

310

Judicial police, functions and its development in Albania

Av. Asllan Dogjani

Deputy in the Albanian Parliament

Av. Arben V. Prifti

Mediterranean University of Tirana

Abstract

This article aims at a consistent search of the opinions about the judicial police as one of the

subjects, contained in the Albanian criminal procedural law. In article 30 of the Albanian

Criminal Procedure Code, are sanctioned the functions, division, addiction and judicial police

duties. In the initial phase, the preliminary investigations are the basis of criminal proceedings.

This phase includes evidences that cannot be replicated, the security measures are set, it is

performed the notice of suit and necessary datas are collected.

Searching, tracking, capture and bringing before trial of the perpetrators is considered as one

of the oldest activities of human being. The need to ensure these regulations and the aim to

prevent the consequences of any criminal activity has forced societies and different states to

establish special investigative bodies (investigation) and to determine by time their rights

and obligations. So judicial police organs were provided and charged with competences and

legal responsibility for the detection, crime preventions and research, capturing and bringing

before the court, individuals or groups who commit criminal activities. From a comparative

overview of legislation of the judicial police in several countries around the world, it is shown

that there is no extreme change in structures and organizational patterns of these bodies,

missions, powers and responsibilities they exercise (Elezi, 1997, 13).

Judicial police in Albania has also been and is one of the important subjects of the criminal

proceedings. In the historical perspective these bodies have had mixed origins and nature,

and in different times they were military or civilian institutions. In this context, main purpose

of this paper is the analysis of judicial police in Albania.

Keywords: Judicial Police, Functions, Investigation, Organic Law, Code of Criminal Procedure.

Introduction

During preliminary investigations, a number of important problems of criminal

proceedings are resolved. Besides the prosecutor, appointed by law (Code of Criminal

Procedure and the organic law on Judicial Police), it is also the judicial police to

conduct the preliminary investigations. Searching, tracking, capture and bringing

before the legal responsibility the criminal offenders is regarded as one of the earliest

activities of human being. Since the ancient time, the human society has reacted to

actions and behaviors that violate the interests, values and vital norms set by it. The

need to ensure compliance of these norms with the regulations, and aim to prevent

the consequences of any criminal activity, has forced different societies and states to

establish special investigative (investigation) bodies, and by time to determine their

rights and obligations. In view of this goal, police services are set up to respond to