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Cooperation of Serbian police with Argentinean, Brazilian police

Belgrade, 23 June 2010

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic said last night that the Serbian police will send their experts to Argentina and Brazil to help the police of these countries uncover criminal groups originating from our area.

Dacic told TV Studio B that criminal groups from Serbia and the Balkan region are operating in these countries because cocaine is more profitable than heroin.

They are a big problem for the police there primarily because of language barriers, he explained.

During his six-day visit to Latin American countries it was agreed that the Serbian police send its police experts to assist in monitoring criminal groups originating from our region, confirmed Dacic.

We offered our colleagues from Latin America the use of our database in order to determine the identity of members of those groups, Dacic announced, adding that a similar agreement is likely to be reached with Colombia by the end of the year.

The First Deputy Prime Minister also stressed the importance of strengthening police cooperation and exchange of operational knowledge between the countries in the region, highlighting the existing good cooperation with the Croatian police.

He warranted that there is a team in the Serbian police dealing with fugitive members of the Zemun clan and that some of them are hiding in neighbouring countries – Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro.

He affirmed that a member of the Zemun Clan Sretko Kalinic, who was arrested in Croatia, will be handed over to Serbia after the conclusion of an interstate agreement on extradition of nationals.

Speaking about cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague, the First Deputy Prime Minister proclaimed that the country's security structures are working on locating the two remaining ICTY indictees.

It is important for the international community to see that the Serbian government is actively engaged in this business, which would be the basis for ICTY Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz’s positive report on Serbia's cooperation with the tribunal, allowing Serbia to move further in the process of European integration, concluded Dacic.