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Surveillance of Persons and Items; Use of the Institute in Practise and its Constitutional Limits Abstract This diploma thesis primarily aims to analyze in detail legislation concerning the surveillance of persons and items in the Criminal Procedure Code of the Czech Republic. In order to present a comprehensive analysis, the thesis firstly defines the concept of Operative- Search Means and the basic conditions for their use. Subsequently, the author assesses particular aspects of the provision § 158d of the Criminal Procedure Code. The main focus is dedicated to the issue of interpretation of certain procedural norms, such as those concerning surveillance of communications between the defendant and their attorney, the covert surveillance in closed spaces, as well as those related to the highly debated issue of admissibility of surveillance records obtained in another criminal proceedings. With regard to all of these subtopics, the author presents the most prominent discourses of criminal procedural theory and practice. At the same time, the author presents her own suggestions as to how to deal with the issues at hand. The main thesis of the paper concerns the subsequent statement that the provision of § 158d of the Criminal Procedural Code regulating the surveillance of persons and items is in fact a...

1 Operational and Investigative actions Abstract Presented thesis deals with the topic of operational investigative actions specified by the Criminal Procedure Code, to which they have been incorporated with effect from 2002. The main aim of this thesis is comprehensive description of the essence and of the domestic applicable legislation of these actions, and also the analysis of possible problematic points and deficiencies. Currently, the mentioned Code in its title nine called procedure prior to initiation a criminal prosecution defines types of these actions in an enumerative way. Those types are pretended transfer, surveillance of the individuals and objects and usage of agent. The thesis itself is divided into six chapters. First chapter is focused on definition of these actions, putting them into context with so called supporting operational investigative actions defined by the Police of the Czech Republic Code, and also on the brief history of their usage in the territory of the Czech Republic. In the second chapter there is a summarization of the general conditions concerning usage of these actions, which apply to all operational investigative actions with few exceptions. Third, fourth and fifth chapter deals with particular operational investigative actions according to the order contained in the...