6 minutes agoIPK launches investigations into policemen who were part of the northern municipalities meeting
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Attending the joint meeting of Kosovo's four northern municipalities has cost some police officials at the start of investigations against them. Kosovo Police Inspectorate has confirmed this information for Radio Dukajini. “IPK confirms that this case is in the process of collecting information in accordance with the mission. [...]
Kosovo Police Inspectorate has confirmed this information for Radio Dukajini.
“The IPK confirms that concerning this case it is in the process of collecting information in line with IPK's legal mission”.
Unlike the IPK, Kosovo police did not show whether they would take any measures against these police officers.
Television has learned that most of the police officials seen in film footage are high figures of the Kosovo Police in northern Kosovo.
Among them is Police Commander in Zubin Potok, North Mitrovica Regional Police Director Nenad Djurovic and Regional Operative Chief in North Mitrovica Aleksandar Filipovic.
Police management, according to the institution's former director, Rashit Qalaj would already have to take certain actions.
I think the director of the Police had to suspend them, not until they arrived at their offices, let them go to their decision of suspension. Then, investigated by internal investigations within the Kosovo Police”, Qalaj has said.
Qalaj stresses that Wednesday's meeting was a threat to Kosovo.
This is in the spirit of threats the president of Serbia, the state of Kosovo, had made several days ago, the Kosovo government, which Kosovo Serbs will release institutions. And I think it's a big mistake that these police officers, or superiors of the police, have participated in that meeting and that's forbidden, I repeat it because of the subject that's been developed”, he's coming.
That these police officials violated the Law on Police, the former chief chief of Kosovo Police Inspectorate, Fitim Shishan, also stressed.
“I think that participation in this forum does not belong to these Kosovo Police, Law on Police and Internal Rules. Much more, I have also heard the declaration of the mayors of northern Kosovo, who in a sense, in the presence of the police, are threatening for the other institutions of the Republic of Kosovo, that they will not participate or leave to”, Shishani stressed.
Article 49 of the Law on Police forbids all police officials from participating in political activities.
However, according to security expert Fadil Cajtazi, institutions should be careful with handling the case.
“Actions in the northern part are not only actions of Kosovo's state bodies, there are actions that also have impacts on Kosovo's foreign policy and therefore should be co-ordinated with someone else, primarily KFOR and the international community”, Cajtazi has declared.
This was not the first time that Serbian Kosovo Police officials are participating in meetings where issues that violate judicial and security order in the country are discussed.
Some northern commanders had even attended one of the Security Council meetings in Belgrade.
