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Journalists from six national and seven local and regional media participated in the training organized by Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) held on April 24-25, aiming to teach them how to do research on corruption in police, military and security services

Efficient fight against corruption in the police requires an improvement in human resource management, strengthening the sector of internal control, police depolitization, but also encouragement for both citizens and police officers to report cases of corruption, it was concluded at panel discussions held on April 28th and 30th, in Majdanpek, Zrenjanin, and Becej.

Management of human resources, changing the Law on Police, the creation of a professional police service and strengthening the sector of internal control are the measures which should be undertaken in order to reduce the risk of corruption in the police, it was concluded during panel discussions held on 14 and 15 April in Brus, Prokuplje and Nis.

It is necessary to change the Law on free access to information of public importance by tightening sanctions and increasing the powers of the Commissioner, and for better implementation of the law it must be organized trainings for employees responsible for access to information, it is concluded during the presentation of the publication „Free access to information of public importance - theory and practice".

This is the first study of public opinion in realization of civil society organization where the focus is on the perception of corruption in the police, citizens' personal experiences with corruption in the police and evaluation of the reforms of the police in this area.

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) requests from the Ministry of Interior (MoI) and Internal Affairs Sector (IAS) to inform public about the measures implemented for effective control of Gendarmerie and what results have been achieved in this field.

Peacekeeping operation are in the nexus of modern civil-military cooperation, and will continue to present a test for the ability of the armed forces, their level of training and interoperability - these were conclusions of the roundtable "Future of (Serbia’s) Security Integration: Cooperation in Defence and Peacekeeping," that BCSP Researcher Marko Savkovic participated in.

With this publication the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) team has mapped, analysed, explained and presented to the public a map of the corruption risks in the army, the police and the security services in Serbia. This publication is a product of the project "Risk Map of Corruption in the Security Sector", which is conducted by kind support of the Anti-corruption Agency of Serbia.

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".