National Law Enforcement Center
National Law Enforcement Center
One of the government’s major objectives is to review the legislation about the investigative authorities’ scopes of action and competencies to ensure that crimes connected to organized crime could be addressed out of turn the course of investigation. To this end, the government established the Customs and Finance Guard’s National Law Enforcement Center as of 1 January 2000, by Government Decree 219/1999 (XII.28).
Under Section 243/A, subsection (1) of Government Decree No. 45/1996 on the Execution of the Customs Act, the National Law Enforcement Center, acting with nationwide competence, is responsible for preventing, detecting, and investigating, pursuant to relevant legal provisions, the financial crimes that the Act on Penal Procedure assign to the its competence. In the event of other crimes detected while performing the investigation tasks defined by law or arising from international cooperation obligations, the organization is also responsible for carrying out the urgent investigative actions, securing scenes and evidence and, in relation thereto, notifying the competent investigative authority.
It has the authority to command, supervise, and control investigative offices, and carries out the professional, organizational, human resource, disciplinary, educational, managerial, and other duties assigned to its competence by separate legal provisions.
It also has the authority to command, supervise, and control customs offices at the border.
On establishing the National Law Enforcement Center, the Customs and Finance Guard used minimum organizational, technical, and material resources to create a centralized organization capable of conducting investigative cases that fully complies with EU requirements.
