This handbook aims to provide the educational content that will serve as the basis for in-service training and as the supplement to basic and specialist training courses that already include lessons in police ethics. It is designed as a kind of tool and guide that will enable police officers to enhance and improve their professional, ethical and law-based conduct.
This brochure intends to make a distinction between freedom of expression and hate speech, both from a terminology and a legal point of view, as well as to differentiate them from other related concepts, such as defamation and insult.
This report, produced by the SPMU, contains summaries of presentations and discussions, as well as background information, executive summary, conclusions and recommendations.
The report’s overall purpose is to provide Serbian authorities and the Government in general a legally sound basis for improving the legal provisions regulating the pre-investigation and the investigation phase under the new Criminal Procedure Code (CPC).