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BCSP Researcher Saša Đorđević attracted significant media attention on the subject of community policing after he assessed, during the presentation of recommendations for continuing the police reform, that repression has been popularised instead of prevention, which is reflected in the promotion of the minister and police through major arrests.
The Development Strategy of the Ministry of Interior does not set crime prevention as the priority, but popularises repression, while big arrests serve for the personal promotion of the minister and the promotion of the police, said the researcher of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, Saša Đorđević, during the presentation of the sixth issue of the Collection of Policy Papers on Police Reform in Serbia in the Media Centre.
„The core role of the police is to prevent, not to repress. It is also mportant to provide adequate resources for all the plans. Community policing and crime prevention should be the priority in the future“, said Đorđević.
The conference got significant public attention, so in addition to reports by the news agencies Tanjug, Beta and Fonet, the issue of community policing was discussed by daily (Politika) and weekly (Akter) newspapers, as well as in TV reports (Pink) and web portals (Mondo).
Collection of Policy Papers on Police Reform in Serbia is a part of the project of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Studies, implemented in cooperation with the OSCE mission in Serbia.
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