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offenders at different stages of criminal proceedings 112 , different definitions of the cases reported, and different<br />
statistical units (individuals, cases, or offences), and double entries of persons in the recorded data (e.g. if a single<br />
person has violated multiple drug-related sections of the Penal Code and/or in connection with multiple drug types).<br />
However, the non-existence of a uniform record-keeping system for all the institutions involved in criminal<br />
proceedings (i.e. the police, public prosecutors' offices, courts, the Probation and Mediation Service, and the Prison<br />
Service) is a major disadvantage in this context.<br />
9.1.1 <strong>Drug</strong> Law Offences<br />
<strong>The</strong> police data (the National <strong>Drug</strong> Headquarters database and the Criminal Statistics Record System) for <strong>2010</strong><br />
show a slight increase in drug-related crime while, on the contrary, the data from the Ministry of Justice show a slight<br />
decrease in the number of individuals prosecuted and indicted; the number of individuals sentenced for drug-related<br />
offences increased; see Table 9-1. <strong>The</strong> long-term situation is relatively stable but changes can be observed in the<br />
structure of drug-related crime by Penal Code section and drug type.<br />
Table 9-1: Number of persons arrested (National <strong>Drug</strong> Headquarters) and prosecuted (Police, Ministry of Justice),<br />
charged with (Ministry of Justice), and sentenced for drug-related offences in 2005–<strong>2010</strong>, according to the individual<br />
<strong>info</strong>rmation sources (Národní protidrogová centrála SKPV Policie ČR, 2011d; Policie ČR, 2011; Ministerstvo<br />
spravedlnosti ČR, 2011a)<br />
Year<br />
Arrested (National<br />
<strong>Drug</strong><br />
Headquarters)<br />
Prosecuted<br />
(Criminal Statistics<br />
Record System)<br />
Prosecuted<br />
(Ministry of<br />
Justice)<br />
Charged (Ministry<br />
of Justice)<br />
Sentenced<br />
(Ministry of<br />
Justice)<br />
2002 2,000 2,204 2,504 2,247 1,216<br />
2003 2,357 2,295 3,088 2,737 1,304<br />
2004 2,157 2,149 2,944 2,589 1,376<br />
2005 2,168 2,209 2,429 2,157 1,326<br />
2006 2,198 2,344 2,630 2,314 1,444<br />
2007 2,031 2,023 2,282 2,042 1,382<br />
2008 2,322 2,296 2,304 2,100 1,360<br />
2009 2,340 2,415 2,553 2,332 1,535<br />
<strong>2010</strong> 2,525 2,437 2,377 2,152 1,652<br />
<strong>The</strong> structure of the drug-related offences in <strong>2010</strong> is shown in Table 9-2. <strong>The</strong> biggest share of the offences<br />
(approximately 80%) is associated with the manufacturing and trafficking of drugs and dealing in them. Women<br />
formed 15% of the individuals prosecuted, charged with, and sentenced for drug-related offences in <strong>2010</strong> (Policie<br />
ČR, 2011; Ministerstvo spravedlnosti ČR, 2011a).<br />
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<strong>The</strong> police statistics (the National <strong>Drug</strong> Headquarters database and the Criminal Statistics Record System) register a case as early<br />
as when prosecution starts. <strong>The</strong> individual cases appear in the statistics of the Ministry of Justice with a certain delay – after the<br />
preliminary stage of the criminal proceedings is concluded (following a decision to indict the offender, suspend the criminal proceedings,<br />
etc.).<br />
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