POLICE

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 ...

More than half of Serbian citizens trust the police, while two-thirds believe that corruption is widespread in this institution, it was pointed out at the presentation of results of the public opinion survey "The Citizens’ Opinions of Police Force" organized by BCSP in the framework of the regional POINTPULSE network.

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) presents an interview with a member of the German Bundestag André Hahn which was led by BCSP Researcher Katarina Djokic.

Strengthening of the civil society networks, with the view to contribute to the police reform process in the framework of the accession negotiations of Serbia and the EU under the Chapter 24, is the main goal of the project that is being implemented by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy and supported by the OSCE Mission in Serbia

In Serbia, integrity testing for police officers has been mentioned ever since 2012, but neither the employees of the Ministry of Interior nor the public are acquainted with the advantages or challenges of the implementation of this anti-corruption measure.

Integrity testing has been the subject of public discussion in Serbia since 2012. The Law on Police, which introduced three preventive anti-corruption measures, including the integrity test, was enacted four years later.

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 ...

Uncoordinated state policy in the field of criminal law, more precisely, the need for harmonization of new Law on Police with Criminal Procedure Code, were the main topics of the sixth CHATvrtak.

The european standard of representation of women in the police force is 30 percent, and according to the information available in Serbia, women currently make up 23 percent of employees, 18 percent in Macedonia, 14 in Kosovo, 13 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 10 in Albania and nine percent in Montenegro, it was pointed out at the conference of the POINTPULSE network.