OVERSIGHT

General oversight mechanisms in Serbia and the need for internal and external oversight mechanisms for the police in specific were the topics on which BCSP researcher Maja Bjelos spoke at a side event during the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM), held on 24 September.

Specific cases of irregularities in the process of public procurements, new legislation in this area, as well as new responsibilities of specialized bodies in the procurement process, were the topics of advanced training for researchers organized in the BCSP library.

Independent state institutions in the Western Balkan countries are becoming important factor in monitoring the security sector, appraised the participants of the conference organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).

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.

The courts and public prosecution have two important functions within the security sector. The first is to combat crime by means of prosecution and punishment of criminal offenders. The second is judicial control over executive actors in the security sector.

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.

Collection of papers and discussions GORAGRAF and the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Belgrade, 2004

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