Corruption challenges Kosovo Police

Corruption is challenging the Kosovo Police. The role and function of internal control of this institution for fighting corruption has been questioned in recent years. 

Allegations of corruption of traffic police officers to charges of involvement of senior police officials in the intentional closure of investigations, taking in huge amounts of money in compensation are some of the cases made public last year, Koha Ditore writes today.

Kosovo police are also being strongly challenged for their professional work. More than half of the criminal charges Kosovo Police hand over to the State Prosecution fall from prosecutors. Most of them are poorly prepared and without sufficient evidence to testify to the reasonable suspicion of the possibility that one could commit a crime.

Investigations that police investigators launch only with anonymous letters without real basis that someone committed criminal acts have raised suspicions that this instance initiates these investigations more to blackmail certain persons than to establish justice...