ACCOUNTABILITY

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy demands the resignations of the Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic and Acting Police Director Vladimir Rebic for omissions in the work of the police during the demolitions in the Herzegovacka street area of Belgrade’s Savamala district on the night of April 24, 2016. If the official investigation concludes that “the top of the police” ordered Belgrade police officials not to react to citizens' calls, BCSP ...

The main topic of the fifth CHATvrtak was a critical review of the process of (none) adoption of the new Law on the fight against corruption, which should have been completed in September 2014 according to the Action Plan for the implementation of anti-corruption strategy.

Regional network of civil society organizations POINTPULSE has, in cooperation with the OSCE Mission to Serbia, on 10 of December in Belgrade, organized a conference "Promoting police integrity in Western Balkans", which goal was to gather the relevant stakeholders dealing with the police reform within the region.

Improvement of the executive branch control, system approach to problem solving, and human rights improvement are necessary for progress in Serbia’s accession negotiations with the European Union, it was concluded at the presentation of the independent report on progress of Serbia in the chapters 23 and 24 of the negotiations, made by the coalition "prEUgovor".

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) demands from the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to discover and punish those accountable for employement of 400 members of the Gendarmerie that were not submited to security checks.

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) requests from the Ministry of Interior (MoI) and Internal Affairs Sector (IAS) to inform public about the measures implemented for effective control of Gendarmerie and what results have been achieved in this field.

Prisons should be ‘safe places’; there should be no riots and escapes, and should not be a places to plan or commit criminal offences. The situation in Serbia, however, does not meet these requirements, as will be shown below.

Over the last eight years (2000-2008) we have seen important and positive changes in the security sector of the Republic of Serbia. Those changes are one of the main products of Serbia’s gradual, sometimes laborious, yet ongoing democratization and liberalisation.

Since it emerged from the donor and academic communities in the 1990s, the concept of Security Sector Reform (SSR) has been through numerous transformations. SSR can be defined as "the process through which security sector actors adapt to the political and organizational demands of transformation." The aim of SSR is "the efficient and effective provision of state and human security within a framework of democratic governance."