Lately there is an increase in media reports about people who left the Serbian Armed Forces or the Ministry of Defense after years of service, dissatisfied with working conditions. In addition to financial reasons, corruption has emerged as one of the causes of this trend. The exchange of knowledge on potential forms of corruption in human resource management in the defense system necessary for effective oversight in this area ...

{image1} Transparency in their work and simultaneous openness to the proposals of civil society organizations present key steps towards building police integrity are the main conclusion of the regional network POINTPULSE conference held on 23. March 2017.  Research on public opinion showed that more than a half of the Western Balkans population believe that civil society organizations (CSOs) should participate in fight against corruption, actively or in cooperation with the ...

{image1} Student group from the Faculty for Criminal Justice, Criminology and Security Studiesat the University of Sarajevo visited Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and closely got acquainted with think tank work on the reform of security sector in Serbia and region on March 17th 2017. Director of the BCSP Sonja Stojanovic Gajic informed students about organization’s history and problems of scientific research of security issues on the Western ...

Belgrade center for security policy (BCSP) appeals on Ministry of interior (MoI) to continue dialogue with civil society organizations in order to propose systematic response to corruption risks in police and increase citizen’s trust in its work. Since MoI needs to serve to the citizens, we consider inappropriate publishing press release fitting more into political than institutional discourse. We regret for MoI did not respond on BCSP’s numerous invitations ...

The fourth assessment of the integrity of the police force in Serbia covers the period from December 2015 to December 2016. The Report includes 24 recommendations to strengthen the integrity of the police.

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy is presenting an interview that BCSP Executive Director Predrag Petrovic had with a Dutch expert Matthéus van den Bersselaar.

Building integrity in defense was the main topic of the meeting of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy with Minister of Defense Zoran Djordjevic and his associates from the Ministry of Defense, which was held on 13th July 2016 in the library of the BCSP. In the framework of the research “Global Anti-corruption Index of Defense”, BCSP, as the partner of the organization Transparency International, announced key findings for ...

In Serbia, integrity testing for police officers has been mentioned ever since 2012, but neither the employees of the Ministry of Interior nor the public are acquainted with the advantages or challenges of the implementation of this anti-corruption measure.

Integrity testing has been the subject of public discussion in Serbia since 2012. The Law on Police, which introduced three preventive anti-corruption measures, including the integrity test, was enacted four years later.