Environmental Crime Training Needs Analysis of Slovene Police Forces

Abstract

The article provides an overview of efforts in the prevention and prosecution of environmental crime in Slovenia in the last decade, covering activities in the following areas: 1) determining training needs for Slovene police organizations, 2) determining the current knowledge, attitudes and practices of environmental crime investigators, 3) training modules within the framework of an environmental protection education program for the Slovene police organizations and 4) performance evaluation of the Slovene investigating and prosecuting system of environmental crime. The overall picture of environmental crime shows a figure of 1,838 reported crimes in the period 2004-2014, with a total number of 808 investigated environmental crime issues. It is important to note that there has been a significant increase in the number and types of environmental crime in the last decade. The research also presents the challenges related to specific types of environmental crime.