The 18-year-old beat: Another Police Officer Arrested in Pristina

Kosovo Police Inspectorate, respectively, has arrested a police official (worker at the Regional Directorate in Pristina) today.

According to a media report, his arrest was made with suspicion that the same one committed criminal work “mishandled during the exercise of official task”, while with the decision of the same prosecutor has been assigned the detention measure for 48 hours.

The same “was suspended days earlier with IPK recommendation. The investigation was launched by the IPK when through operational routes investigators have provided a information (vivide-incipation) on which it was suspected of exceeding police authorization during the use of force by a police official in Pristina”, the report said.

Meanwhile, as reported in the statement, this is the second police official arrested in connection with the same case after the IPK had arrested an alleged police official on 28,01,2021.

The further investigation into this case to clarify the circumstances of this incident will continue from IPK investigators to continued consultation with the prosecutor responsible”, the report said.

Otherwise, the day before it was reported that a member of the Speed Response Unit at the <x0 Police station <x0 Centre” in Pristina, Haris Kelmendi, who was arrested Thursday evening for the second time, under suspicion of the criminal work “mishandration during the exercise of official task”, as through video recording, one is seen being mistreated by an 18-year-old officer, who happened in 2018.