%0 Journal Article %T Passive Bribing of Police Officers %A Juras %A Damir %J - %D 2019 %X Sa£¿etak In the work, besides quoting of legal doctrine¡¯s standpoint and judicial practice then, the statistical data, is given the illustration and the analysis of the criminal offence¡¯s bribe reception, with particular reference to police officers as criminal offence committers. The aforesaid criminal offence is done by an official or responsible person which requires or receives a bribe in order to operate illegally or to perform legally his official or other act when asking for a bribe or receiving it following the completion of official procedure then, a requiring or receiving the bribe was related to a performed or not performed work. The author¡¯s conclusion is that receiving a bribe, as a corruption aspect, is harmful for the community then, when performed by police officials, the citizens¡¯ confidence in the police is about to be demolished and performance of police operations gets damaged %K criminal offense %K corruption %K passive bribing %K police officer %K receiving a bribe %U https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=324537