PRIVATE SECURITY

It is necessary to define exactly what are the activities in which members of the police should not be involved, and this area should be regulated by the new Law on Police, it was concluded during the panel discussion „Regulating the activities of police officers that conflict with their offical duties“, held on 7th November at the Library of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. "The first thing which ...

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.

This January, draft Law on Detectives prepared by the MoI was sent to the National Assembly in order to be adopted under urgent procedure. After BCSP warned how, by its adoption, rights guaranteed by the Constitution may be endangered, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, Rodoljub Sabic, asked for this draft Law to be withdrawn from procedure. The problem is this draft stands in contradiction to the Law on Protection of Personal ...

With the support of OSCE Mission in Serbia, Centre for Civil-Military Relations has undertaken an field research within the scope of the project „Private Security Companies (PSC) in Serbia - A Friend or Foe?“. This is the first empirical research of its kind ever taken in Serbia. The general motivation behind research efforts was the existing lack of any law(s) defining the work of PSC in Serbia has been. ...

18. march 2011.