Law enforcement is the key institution of the rule of law. According to Eurobarometer (March 2018) only 38 percent of the Slovak public trust the police. The project wants to trigger changes in the speed of the investigation. First, by creating pressure to collect speed and speed data obstacles in the investigation, and secondly, provide an analysis of the police procedure in investigating complaints. Based on Aliancia Fair Play findings propose measures to streamline investigations, speed up investigation procedures and improve quality and transparency police decision making.
The project will focus mainly on:
• Focusing the public's attention on delays in the investigation, creating pressure for the police to generate data on the length of each phase of the investigation, the number and types of procedural steps performed and their subsequent publication as a basis for problem analysis and evaluation of solutions.
• Filing criminal reports mainly regarding economic crime, proposing evidence, monitoring their investigations.
• Proposals for system solutions based on experience in monitoring the process of investigating our complaints.
The main project activities will conduct systematic filing of criminal reports based on data analyzes of public sources on the management and economic activities of companies (financial statements, published contracts, public procurement). In addition to the justification, the criminal reports will also contain suggestions of evidence - suggestions on how the investigator should proceed, so the suggestions may also have a kind of educational dimension
A thematically different part of the project will be the follow-up to long-term monitoring of the application of the Act on Free Access to Information. The project will monitor these theme, and inform the public about the findings via campaigne.
The project will also continuously comment on laws, elaboration and communications of proposals for changes.