From today: Up to 12 years in prison of $8,000 fine for those who respect the measures

Africa Ahmeti, Kosovo Police Operations Director in an interview, has said the sentences will be great.

According to him, the sentences range from 2 years to 12 years in prison, while for wrongdoing under the Law to prevent infectious diseases of up to 8 thousand euros in fines.

We're starting tomorrow with the speech of fines because the large number of infected people is on the rise and we're seeing there's no alternative going on without the spelling of fines”.

“We have opened cases from the beginning of implementing government decisions under the Penal Code according to Article 249 and 250, and we have assisted the Sanitary inspectors while now we, in addition to assisting the Sanitary inspectors and the cases that we will apply according to Article 249-250 of the Kosovo Criminal Code, will take notes of citizens who do not implement these measures, and the same will be prosecuted to the Sanitary inspectors who will make this presentation for the”.

“Dinations are huge enough, and according to Article 249 and 250 sentences range from 2 years to 12 years in prison, while for the Law to prevent infectious diseases of up to 8 thousand euros fine”.

Ahmeti, among other things, has said that Kosovo police from tomorrow will start working at 12 hours, as well as have maximum presence in the squares and highways.

He has stressed that all of Kosovo's city has had maximum monitoring by police, EO reports.

Looking at the large number of people infected with Covid-19, the country's government has made a decision in recent days that imposes upon us all institutions for the implementation of this decision and the undertaking of measures aimed at preventing the spread of the Devud-19<x1 virus.

Kosovo Police also are part of implementing this decision, where from yesterday we have begun the sensationalisation of citizens' opinion for attracting remarks and counseling to wear masks and maintain physical distance and not to accumulate at certain locations in large numbers of their”.

Kosovo's “Police, when there are additional security measures, apply the 12-hour schedule, which will be applied from tomorrow, police will be engaged in inspectors' assistance and conduct regular tasks in police stations across all municipalities and work on 12 hours and will have maximum presence in squares, to be affected by preventing the spread of the virus”.

“There is no doubt that all of Kosovo's cities have had such monitoring, and by tomorrow most police officials and officials working at the central level will be deployed in regional assistance to regional directors and will be engaged in these directors in performing tasks required by”, he said of EO.