New analysis of the BCSP points to the insufficiently investigated topic of private detective companies and answers four basic questions: What do we know about detectives in Serbia, what do they actually do, what competencies do they have and how can their work be improved from the point of of law and human rights?

Before the special Law on Private Security was adopted in November 2013, the private security industry had been operating in a legal vacuum for 20 years. The analysis of the implementation of this Law was conducted by the BCSP Executive Director Predrag Petrovic.

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.

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.