21 Officers at Work Since Postwar

The evening of January 28th was fatal for Kosovo Police member Sami Thaqi. During a raid on the village of Zhur, Prizren, he died tragically. Everything happened after an explosion, whose circumstances remain a mystery.

Sami Thaci's name will be marked in the archives of the Kosovo Police Institute, as one of the next members to die at the helm of the post, writes news.net.

The blast that occurred during a raid on the village of Zhur, Prizren, caused severe injuries last night for police member Sami Thaci, who later passed away.

Thaci is the 21st member of the Kosovo Police, who since the post-war dies at the helm of the post.

In a response to news.net, Kosovo police have indicated that the number of officials in office since the post-war is 20, without including last night's case.

“As for your interest, we announced that the number of police officials in office is 20 police officials”, said in response.

What is a further challenge for security institutions is caring for families of those in charge, some of whom live under poor financial conditions.

Valbona Kamberi, from the Kosovo Police Union, for news.net says every family of police officers in office has the right to pension.

She says there have also been separate means under the interior minister's decision, but the difficulty is highlighted because of both the inefficiency and the serious financial situation in Kosovo.

Every family of the police down in office has a pension right. There have been separate tools for the end according to the General Directorate's decision but also the Minister of Internal Affairs, so always when the opportunity for any donation was found, they had a priority on those families, even though in recent times they couldn't achieve it, but other times it's always been made”, Camber said about news.net.

Kamberi says that the union she is leading is always in touch with those families, for their needs, and, according to their ability, they help.

“As for the union aspect, we are always in touch with those families, for any need they have both health and any other demand, we are able to help those families, despite some of those families have good economic conditions”, she says.

However, donor - based assistance and sometimes separate means does not work on many of the families of the police in office.

Kamberi says these families have numerous socioeconomic needs, and in this form the tools they divide are never enough.

There's not enough infrastructure ever, because families have a lot of economic and social needs, but given that the fund that exists is shared for these families. So whether it was a small value or a small value, it's been set aside as a kind of reward or financial support. In every organization that we have a record for the collection of tools, we've shared proportionally for these families even though we've recently lacked these funds because of the social situation in Kosovo”, Kamberi said.

On the contrary, Camber says that these families are also assisted by private initiatives.

The “those who have expressed readiness are directed directly to the family as they are able to give. We visit these families constantly, however, this is the possibility that Kosovo Police currently have”, says Valbona Camberi from the Kosovo Police Union.

And from the police institution, news reports say the whole case is arranged with Article 48 of the Police Law.

The treatment of the family of police officials who die on duty or the police official who dies in the post is also regulated by the Police Law (so it is public), Article 48”, said by Kosovo Police.

However, Kosovo police as one of the country's most reliable and creditable institutions, which is exposed to a permanent danger, face numerous problems.

Among them is health insurance, the topic that is in the Republic of Kosovo.

The news.net had carried out a report last year about the police's fall in office, Malsor Dashi.

The latter, along with his colleague, Armend Train, had fallen into the Lepenc River, where they had found death.

Some time after his fall, family members themselves were the ones who by their own means had built a memorial plaque at the tomb of former police officer Armend Train.