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Fight against organised crime top priority for 2009
Belgrade,
29 December 2008
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Ivica Dacic today announced that the police’s priorities in 2009 will be the preservation of public peace and order, the fight against all types of crime and visa liberalisation.
Author:
Tanjug
At the annual press conference, Dacic specified that between January and November 95,359 criminal offences were committed but the police solved 58 % of crimes committed by unknown persons.
The Minister said that a number of the most serious cases, such as murder and rape, as well as juvenile crime, have decreased.
Dacic recalled that in 2008 the police confiscated 1.6 tonnes of various drugs and discovered 695 illegal immigrants, mostly from Albania, Macedonia, Turkey and Montenegro.
He also said that 182,000 new travel documents and 326,000 ID cards had been issued and invited citizens to take new documents as soon as possible, as it is a precondition for Serbia’s inclusion in the Schengen “white list”.
Dacic said that police cooperation in the region has also improved, adding that for example two Macedonian citizens, who had escaped from prison, as well as a Serbian citizen who provided them with false documents, were arrested in Novi Sad.
As for the arrest of former Kosovo Liberation Army (OVK) members, Dacic reiterated that the action was not aimed against Albanians but against suspects for the most serious of war crimes, who participated in the violence that happened in March, 2004 in Kosovo-Metohija.
Being a member of a national minority in Serbia does not mean they are protected from responsibility for criminal acts and crimes, Dacic stressed, and recalled that 44 top state, police and military officials from Serbia were extradited to The Hague and also that police officers were arrested in actions concerning the fight against organised crime.
He repeated that the security situation in the south of Serbia will not destabilise and noted that security forces are able to keep the peace.
UNMIK will be requested to find the remaining members of the so-called "Gnjilane group" still living in Kosovo-Metohija, he said.
Dacic also suggested that police officers that were involved in the arrest of KLA members are rewarded.
The Minister expressed dissatisfaction over the case of Strahinja Raseta, who was killed while attempting to put a bomb under a car in Belgrade, because of poor cooperation between the police and the District Court in Novi Sad.
Commenting on today’s meeting of the National Security Council, Dacic expressed his expectation that the decisions made will contribute to the stabilisation of the security system.
The Minister said that a number of the most serious cases, such as murder and rape, as well as juvenile crime, have decreased.
Dacic recalled that in 2008 the police confiscated 1.6 tonnes of various drugs and discovered 695 illegal immigrants, mostly from Albania, Macedonia, Turkey and Montenegro.
He also said that 182,000 new travel documents and 326,000 ID cards had been issued and invited citizens to take new documents as soon as possible, as it is a precondition for Serbia’s inclusion in the Schengen “white list”.
Dacic said that police cooperation in the region has also improved, adding that for example two Macedonian citizens, who had escaped from prison, as well as a Serbian citizen who provided them with false documents, were arrested in Novi Sad.
As for the arrest of former Kosovo Liberation Army (OVK) members, Dacic reiterated that the action was not aimed against Albanians but against suspects for the most serious of war crimes, who participated in the violence that happened in March, 2004 in Kosovo-Metohija.
Being a member of a national minority in Serbia does not mean they are protected from responsibility for criminal acts and crimes, Dacic stressed, and recalled that 44 top state, police and military officials from Serbia were extradited to The Hague and also that police officers were arrested in actions concerning the fight against organised crime.
He repeated that the security situation in the south of Serbia will not destabilise and noted that security forces are able to keep the peace.
UNMIK will be requested to find the remaining members of the so-called "Gnjilane group" still living in Kosovo-Metohija, he said.
Dacic also suggested that police officers that were involved in the arrest of KLA members are rewarded.
The Minister expressed dissatisfaction over the case of Strahinja Raseta, who was killed while attempting to put a bomb under a car in Belgrade, because of poor cooperation between the police and the District Court in Novi Sad.
Commenting on today’s meeting of the National Security Council, Dacic expressed his expectation that the decisions made will contribute to the stabilisation of the security system.
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