BULGARIA
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Constitution
Constitution, 1991 (parliament) (with amendments until 2006)
Political Institutions
Presidency (in English)
Parliament (in English)
Ministry of Interior (in English)
Policing Legislation
Penal Code (1968, as amended up to 2006) (in Bulgarian) (as amended up to 2002) (in English) (Legislationline)
Criminal Procedure Code
Law of the Ministry of Interior (2006) (in English) (Ministry of Interior) (includes section on the police)
Rules Implementing the Law on the Ministry of Interior (1999, with amendments until 2005) (in English) (Ministry of Interior)
Traffic Law (1999) (in English) (Ministry of Interior)
Code of Ethics for Officials of the Ministry of Interior with Police Functions (2004) (Council of Europe)
• Law for the Bulgarian Identification Documents
• Law for control over the explosives, firearms and munitions
• Law for the Foreigners in the Republic of Bulgaria
• Law for the Protection of the Classified Information
• Law for the Asylum and the Refugees
• Law for Protection of the Personal Data (PDF - 60k)
• Rules Implementing the Law on the MoI
• Rules Implementing the Law on Control of Explosives, Firearms and Ammunitions
Legal Sources
laws of the Ministry of Interior (in English)
More laws on the legal portal of Bulgaria (in Bulgarian only)
Legal Archives
Organization of the Police
Departments of the National Police
Victimization Studies
Criminal Statistics
Policing Research Institutes
Sofia University, School of Law, Sofia
Police Schools
Academy of the Ministry of Interior (University level) (Higher Institute for Police Officers Training and Scientific Research)
Centers for Specialization and Professional Police Training in Sofia, Varna and Kazanlak
Online Policing Papers
Official Security Documents
National Strategy for Counteracting Crime, approved by a decision No 726 of the Council of Ministers (7.11.2002)
Police Websites
National Office Security
National Police Service (in English)
Non Governmental Organization
Open Society, Sofia (new website in beta version in March 2007)
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