SECURITY SECTOR FINANCING

Lately there is an increase in media reports about people who left the Serbian Armed Forces or the Ministry of Defense after years of service, dissatisfied with working conditions. In addition to financial reasons, corruption has emerged as one of the causes of this trend. The exchange of knowledge on potential forms of corruption in human resource management in the defense system necessary for effective oversight in this area ...

It is necessary to perceive citizens as allies, and actively involve them in budget planning in order to fulfil their security needs - this was highlighted at the event organized by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) in Nis, on December 18th 2018. Opening the panel discussion, BCSP Researcher Sasa Djordjevic emphasized that the budget for 2019 was adopted without a proper debate in the Assembly, and that that ...

BCSP Researcher Katarina Djokic wrote for Pescanik.net about issues related to the current practices regarding procurement for the purposes of Serbian Armed Forces.

<spanArial","sans-serif";color:#212121;background:white">Domestic legislation sets very strict criteria and a complicated procedure for deciding on arms exports. However, these criteria are not respected in practice. It is therefore no wonder that Serbian weapons occasionally end up in the wrong hands. There are two reasons: export growth is necessary to maintain an increasing number of jobs in the defence industry and the government doesn’t analyze the long-term effects of arms exports to ...

Inefficient planning of capital expenditures, poor control over “secret” procurement procedures and reduced competitiveness in public tenders are the main problems of procurement for the police in Serbia, are the conclusions of discussion on the topic of this area of public spending held on December 5 in Media Centre Belgrade. The main topic of the discussion organized by POINTPULSE regional network was the police procurement of 710 “Škoda Rapid” ...

Incompatibility of public procurements with the real needs of employees, poor enforcement of procedures and lack of staff are the main causes of wasteful procurements in the security sector, are conclusions of the conference "Financing security for  XXI Century" organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on 21st of  February 2017 in Belgrade. The first task under Chapter 5 of the negotiations with the European Union is ...

Although close to 15% of the Budget of the Republic of Serbia is spent on security, this is not enough because there is no systematic investment, it was pointed out during the meeting between Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and the Members of Parliament held on November 23, 2016 in Belgrade.

Expedient financing of civil protection at the local level was the topic of a discussion held on Friday, September 30, in Majdanpek, which was organized by the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) with the support of the Resource Centre, a partner of the PRO-CURE Group. A case study "Extorted procurement-how local authorities unlawfully procure equipment for firefighters" by Dejan Skoric was also presented during the discussion. ’Even though ...

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” ...