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The Government of the Republic of Serbia

In the service of citizens

Strengthening regional police cooperation

Belgrade, 15 December 2005

Serbian Minister of Interior Dragan Jocic said today that the Serbian Ministry of Interior aims to increase the level of bilateral and multilateral police cooperation and that is why it supports the Southeast Europe Police Chiefs Association (SEPCA) in its efforts to assist the reform of regional law enforcement agencies and boost their ties and relations.

Neils Beckman and Dragan Jocic

Author: Tanjug

Opening a session of the SEPCA executive board, Jocic said that the Serbian government and the Ministry of Interior are committed to regional cooperation in the field of safety, and added that it is good that all police services in the region have launched the necessary sweeping reforms on the path towards the European integration.

He said that the Serbian police, recognising the flows of modern policing, opted for modernisation and strategic equipment, as well as for the introduction of standards of police activity in the community so that it would make citizens feel safer in their every day environment.

Jocic recalled that in Vojvodina the project called “Community safety in a multiethnic society” has been initiated, and it was given significant amount of attention because it made possible cooperation between the police and citizens with the aim of securing harmonic coexistence and tolerance between different ethnic communities.

Neils Beckman who heads up the law enforcement department of the OSCE Mission to Serbia-Montenegro said that SEPCA represents a mainstay of the region and of the international cooperation of departments that fight crime.

According to Beckman, political and economic development of the region depends on strong institutions and their cross-border cooperation, and SEPCA has already proved to be an excellent and extraordinarily useful initiative, due to which it is of key importance that all police departments in the region accept and support it.

The meeting of SEPCA is being attended by chiefs and representatives of police services of Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Republika Srpska, Montenegro, as well as representatives of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.