Musliu stirs up the head of the police: Be careful, select words when talking about the House

There are 21 cases of murder in Kosovo this year, while 2020 has marked increased cases of domestic violence. According to the Kosovo Police, there are over 1,300 people arrested for serious criminal acts, while during this period, 12 police officials have lost their lives from COVID-19 and over 1,000 have been infected since the outbreak of the outbreak in March.

Kosovo Police Director General Samedin Mehmeti's duty to report to the Security and Defence Affairs Commission has started with the presentation of the institution's work statistics leading the way.

That one before the commission members announced that during this year, over 24 thousand criminal acts have been identified, while over 11,000 as countering and cases of other nature.

The number of homicides during this period unfortunately marked up from 19 as much as we had last year, we have 25 this year, which means 31.57 percent increase. The number of serious injuries has scored from 245 to 237. The number of robberies has seen a drop from 147 to 120. The number of thefts has scored, from 4131 to 3492. While, the number of cases of domestic violence has unfortunately marked rise. From 1751 to 1861, or 6,86 up”, Mehmet stressed.

Mehmeti has stressed that Kosovo police have detained over 4400 people for allegations of involvement in criminal acts, which compared to last year, have risen by 1.89 per cent. Meanwhile, over 12,000 people have been arrested, who, in co-operation with other authorities, have been submitted to further procedures.

“over this period of time, within the framework of police activities oriented to prevent fighting organised crime, serious crimes, 566 different operations, 539 local raids and other controlled targets, as well as 65 operational plans have been conducted. A total of 1413 cases of this nature have been worked on, out of them 852 new cases, 418 cases processed by other entities under the Kosovo Police. 205 cases have been carried by the previous years, and five cases have been transferred from other units... There have been 826 criminal charges, 54 of them with unknown leaders, 772 criminal charges with the chief known”, Mehmeti said.

During this period, he stressed that over 1,300 people have been arrested for serious criminal acts.

MPs Salih Zyba and Elmi Recica have demanded that Mehmeti cut off reporting with statistics and report the current situation in this institution.

Furthermore, opposition member Mefail Bajqinovci stressed that Prime Minister Hoti had declared police officials not complying with anti-pronged measures CO VID, also asking about the number of those infected.

“Prime Minister Hoti has declared that Kosovo Police and Inspectorate are violating government decisions, so they are not implementing anti measures. CO VID. Do we agree with the prime minister's statement? So far it is estimated that a large number of police officials have been affected by COVID, what is their number?”, Bajqinovci said.

Mehmeti has responded that he cannot comment on statements stated by others.

I must admit that I have not heard this statement from Prime Minister Hoti, but I had asked you that a police director's duty guide spare him from interpretations of statements made by the prime minister, minister or deputy, because it is neither ethical nor professional for me to comment on what a politician says. Kosovo police, of course, respect the Government's decisions and all the laws and ordinances that come out of the legitimate state institutions”, he said.

The PDK deputy Ganimet Musliu, who has demanded that the same “select” words even when speaking to MPs.

Don't tell us it's not professional, that we've been on this committee for 10 years. Even now comes a director, a task leader saying it's not ethical and professional, this is not professional. Be careful, select words, and select words for the government, twice you must choose words for the House. That is to consider, because the government and you respond to this” commission, Musliu said.

On the other hand, Mehmet also talked about the number of police officials infected with COVID-19 from March of this year. While ensuring that the number of infected people has not affected police work.

“293 are active with COVID, are infected. Unfortunately, 12 officials have failed to deal with infection, and they have died as a result of infection. Today on the day we speak 234 members are in isolation, 1142 members of the police have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic, while civil staff 47”, he said.

While speaking of the number of fines pronounced during the pandemic, he has not denied that in any case there was overcoming competencies. He has also discussed cases of human trafficking, where he said 18 cases of prostitution services have been identified, where seven victims have been sheltered.