Expedient financing of civil protection on local level was the topic of a discussion held on Thursday, September 29, in Zrenjanin, organized by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), with the support of the Society Against Corruption, a partner of PRO-CURE Group. A case study “Combat boots without a fight: Performance analysis of the public procurement of combat boots by the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia” ...

Expedient financing of civil protection was the topic of a discussion held on Tuesday, October 4, in Nis. The discussion was organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), with the support of Society Innovation Center - NIIT and organization PROTECTA, one of the partners of the PRO-CURE Group. Case studies “The Ministry of Interior funds The Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies, but does not employ its ...

Expedient financing of personal and asset protection was the topic of a discussion held on Monday, October 3, in Loznica. The discussion was organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), with the support of PAKT Loznica organization, one of the partners of the PRO-CURE Group. Case study “Why doesn’t hail protection in Serbia work?” by Miroslav Mijatovic was also presented during the discussion. “Separate anti-hail rocket procurement ...

The Ministry of Interior (MoI) allocates about 3 million euros per year to The Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies (KPA), but a small number of graduates is employed in the police force. The analysis deals with the question of how expedient it is to allocate funds to finance the KPA when the MoI does not employ the personnel trained at it.

The challenges of the current system of control of police work were the topic of a panel discussion organized by the OSCE Mission to Serbia on 27 September 2016 in hotel Metropol. BCSP researcher Sasa Djordjevic has contributed to the debate. "In Serbia, there is no system of internal control of the police, because a system implies a set of organizational units that function as a harmonious whole to achieve ...

Applying the "PRO-CURE" methodology, Dejan Skoric from the Association Resource Centre Majdanpek, conducted an analysis of the expediency of the spending of public funds from the budgets of local governments for the purchase of fire-fighting vehicles and equipment.

Applying the "PRO-CURE" methodology for assessing the procurement expediency, Miroslav Mijatovic of Podrinjski Anti-Corruption Tim Loznica, conducted a study on the procurement of anti-hail rockets in Loznica in 2014 and 2015. In this study the author has also provided an overview of the overall state of hail protection in Serbia, as well as recommendations for improvement of this system.

The case study applies "PRO-CURE" methodology to analyse performance of expenditures for equipping the traffic police at the local level. The author particularly questions the difference between the proclaimed strategic priorities of the Ministry of Interior and its annual procurement plans, as well as the the distribution of the burden of financing the traffic police between Ministry of Interior and local governments.

At the moment Serbia has three laws guverning security  services, which are not harmonized , there has been no reform of the Security services and control and supervision are not implemented in practice. Those are the main reasons for the adoption of new, umbrella law - it was underlined in the event of public presentation of Model Law on security services, that was organized by Belgrade Center for Security ...