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".

This publication aims to provide an independent research-supported overview on the key achievements and weaknesses in the accountability of security sectors of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, and to present what effect this has on the countries’ democratic transition.

A recent expert opinion on the causes of the accident at the ammunition factory „Prvi partizan" in Uzice established that the explosion was caused by bad gunpowder. These findings refute the findings of the previous expertise according to which human factor was the cause of the accident. Read what the BCSP research team discovered in 2011 about this accident, as well as about the tragedy in Paracin.

According to the findings of the Global Defence Anti-Corruption Index, Serbia’s defence system is among those threatened by a high corruption risk.

In the year of 2012 BCSP celebrated its 15th anniversary and continued with the development of innovative research, educational materials and programmes, as well as the new communication and advocacy tools and tactics.

In Independent Report on the Implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) on UN SC Resolution 1325 in the Republic of Serbia BCSP wish to present the greatest achievements in the NAP implementation process, point out the challenges encountered in this process, and propose measures for overcoming these and improving NAP implementation.

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 this paper we will present the assumptions underlying the research conducted by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations team within the "Mapping and Monitoring Security Sector Reform in Serbia" project.

Private security companies (PSCs) in Serbia have been active since the early 1990s. PSCs fall under the category of non-state actors authorised to use force. It is estimated that these companies today employ between 20 and 60 thousand people in Serbia.