Police authorities' actions in detecting coincidences between investigated sites and sis alerts for searched property for seizure

Abstract

The Bulgarian membership in the European Union has changed many things in the national security concept. New challenges have arisen and new instruments for the competent law enforcement authorities have been developed which can be used efficiently for the countering the crime and protection of national security. The Schengen Information System also known by its abbreviation SIS is one of the tools, the instruments, elaborated in order the capacity of the competent authorities in the field of countering the crime to be increased. The practical implementation of the SIS could be done in several aspects. The aim of the article is to explore one of the alerts in SIS and particular the alert with regard to finding stolen or lost property. Some practical problems with regard the objects, subject to confiscation or evidence in penal criminal proceedings will also be covered in the article.