Bugetary Perspective on Police Force: A Case Study on Slovenia

Abstract

The author explores some of the generally overlooked roles of police force in contemporary world. The last decade was strongly marked by a need for increased safety, and police forces were strongly motivated to change the security paradigm. However, a connection between police and security can be seen as well, through the budget, where the activity of the police is measured using the amount of revenues obtained from fees and fines. In the case of the Slovenian security situation and fine revenues, police has both the main role in providing a certain level of national internal security and an important budgetary role by providing 1% of the Slovenian budgetary revenues that are sufficient to cover the expenses of approximately 15 main institutions belonging to the political system.