Where are we now and what is next: Community policing in Serbia
The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights (BCHR) are inviting you to the panel discussion on the current status of community policing development in Serbia. The panel discussion will be held on Tuesday, 5 July 2011, starting at 11:00 a.m. at the Hotel Balkan, Conference Room (Prizrenska Street 2, Belgrade).
Citizens do not believe that institutions, such as the police and the army, are deserved for their personal safety, but on the contrary friends and neighbours. These outcomes are the results of the public opinion poll “What do citizens think about their safety and security in Serbia”, conducted by the BCSP. Moreover, only 6 per cent of citizens believe that they are safe because the state institutions are doing their job in a proper way. The existing situation can be improved during the further process of implementation of community policing in Serbia.
After completing the first phase of implementation of the community policing concept in 2005 through realization of the pilot projects on community policing in several municipalities in Serbia, and the second with the carrying out of the project named JUNO 5 in 2009, the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia defined new goal with its Development Strategy 2011-2016. That goal is producing a strategy and an action plan on the community policing development in Serbia. So, the third phase started with this new strategic goal.
The aim of this panel discussion is to stimulate public discussion and contribute to the concretisation of further steps of the community policing development in Serbia and to answer on five specific questions:
1. Why is it important to develop the concept of community policing?
2. What are the next steps in the development of the concept of community policing in Serbia?
3. Why is the concept of community policing important for tackling domestic violence?
4. What is the role of local self-government in developing community policing?
5. What is the progress in developing the concept of community policing in Montenegro?
The panellists are: Robert Pazos (the OSCE Mission to Serbia), Golub Gačević (the Police Directorate of the Ministry of Interior), Danijela Spasić (the Academy of Criminalistics and Police Studies), Novak Gajić (the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities) i Sonja Stojanović (the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy).
Simultaneously translation from Serbian to English will be available. For additional information please contact Sasa Djordjevic via email: sasadjordjevic@ccmr-bg.org or telephone: +381 11 3287 334.
The panel discussion is part of the project „Fostering Civil Society Involvement in Police Reform”, supported by the OSCE Mission to Serbia, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Serbia and the Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces from Geneva (DCAF).
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LOCATION: Belgrade Center for Security Policy
TOPICS: Police, Serbian Security Policy
CONTACT: dragana.belanovic@bezbednost.org
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