Police ready to be part of INTERPOL membership enables fighting international crime

Police members have even been willing to assist their colleagues from other countries in fighting international crime in the past, says former director of Rashit Qalay.

MP The PDK says Kosovo police could contribute and help this mechanism in investigating many cases.

Kosovo's <x0.> The Kosovo Police have since prepared to be part of INTERPOL, and let's not forget that it's not just a question that Kosovo will have benefits from membership in this organisation, but there are mutual benefits, since Kosovo police would greatly contribute that even INTERPOL get information from Kosovo Police”, Qalaj said.

Qalaj claims that the government must make the decision for membership in close consultation with international partners.

“You know that part has been in the package of Washington's agreement that for a year Kosovo will not attempt to join any international organisation, and that's been passed, and now the decision is to the Government, and I think that Kosovo should make constant efforts to become part of international institutions, especially when dealing with security. But it is still a decision the Kosovo government must make in close consultation with our international partners”, he said.

While security affairs professor Fatmir Colak sees diplomacy's non-annarianity in this organisation as a failure.

He says more work must be done in this direction, to ensure sufficient member states votes.

Kosovo's non-recognition in INTERPOL in the last two cases shows that the strategy to join this organisation is more of a matter of diplomacy and politics than of the police, which is that Kosovo has failed diplomatically in the first two attempts, so it has been a real assessment that there are not enough preconditions for membership, because it is previously known to be the epilogue of this membership attempt, that it has not been done enough in terms of the political and diplomatic lobbies, and<1>

“... it's not easy because it's about a considerable number of votes to join this organisation, and certainly in another round, they have to make maximum diplomatic effort to ensure the numbers so that that that quota of member states is reached to enable the membership of a new state in this organisation, such as Kosova”, he said.

Speaking of the possibility next time Kosovo is part of this organisation, Colak says the interest in joining this organisation is mutual, while adding that fighting organised crime cannot be done without the help of the international security organisation.

Kosovo's “general interest is INTERPOL membership. Police in the narrow sense do not benefit, but the state of Kosovo, because it will be an equal member of a very important organisation in co-ordination of international judicial activities and accession, on prevention and fighting international criminality”, he added.

“ ... we all know that organized crime of character and transnational formats cannot be fought in particular without co-operation with international crime-fighting organisations, in this case, such as INTERPOL, a credit organisation”, Colak said.

Last year, Kosovo had signed a one-year-old murgatory at the White House in Washington to stop efforts for membership in international organisations.