Corruption risk assessment methodology, as well as the mechanisms and instruments for addressing those risks were at the very focus of the regional seminar that gathered 10 think-tank organizations from the Western Balkans. The seminar was aimed at raising research capacities of the participating organizations in dealing with police corruption, and has also served for exchanging participants’ knowledge on this subject.  The BCSP was represented at the seminar by ...

{image1}What is - in real life - police corruption in Serbia, and which are the most practical „tools“ for researching this phenomenon, these were some of the topics at the first training for representatives of the A-COP group. Participants of the treninig held at Mokra Gora, from 31 May to June 2, were also representatives of the Internal Affairs Sector (IAS), and the Centre for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CIJS). Introductory ...

With this publication the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) team has mapped, analysed, explained and presented to the public a map of the corruption risks in the army, the police and the security services in Serbia. This publication is a product of the project "Risk Map of Corruption in the Security Sector", which is conducted by kind support of the Anti-corruption Agency of Serbia.

The NATO advanced research workshop reinforced the links between universities and think-tank community, and created a platform for future cooperation of most prominent experts in the field of counter-terrorism policy. The event has given all those involved food for thought on how to best address the issue of terrorist leaders, and produced a series of interesting exchanges and remarks.

The vast majority of citizens think that corruption is a widespread phenomenon in Serbia, but the number of those who believe that the level of corruption decreased a bit is growing while the belief that police is corrupted is very expressed, said representatives of the Belgrade centre for security policy (BCSP) during presentation of the results of public opinion poll „Citizens of Serbia on corruption in police".

The police in Serbia has come a long way since 2001 and new democratic foun-dations have been laid upon which the police can fulfil their duty to serve the country’s citizens. There have been four crucial changes.

In all previous studies of corruption in Serbian police the same risks were identified, and major one among them is politicization, BCSP Researcher Sasa Djordjevic said at the press conference in the Media Center.

Police corruption control and social consequences of corruption in the police in Serbia are two main topics of the seventh issue of Collection of Policy Papers on Police Reform in Serbia.

Three out of four Serbian citizens think there has been an increase in violence in the last few years. This percentage is particularly alarming in Belgrade (84%) and among young people (82%). Citizens are most concerned with individual violence: bullying in schools, domestic violence, and the violence associated with drug addiction and crime.