Director for Security in Pristina: About 300 thousand guns in Kosovars' hands, every third car gets caught with it

The director of the Directorate for Security and Emergency in Pristina, Lulzim Fushtica, said that according to the data it has from Kosovo Police, the number of illegal weapons Kosovars hold in their hands is about 300 thousand.

The <x0frat we took from the police say we have a large number of weapons in the hands of young people, a concern for society. Based on statistics by the Interior Ministry about 300 thousand firearms are in the hands of citizens, not legalised”, Fushtica said.

What has been said by police colleagues, in ongoing checks, turns out that every third vehicle that has been stopped has resulted in a kind of gun: fire, knife, hecry boxing, baseball stupc”, Fushtica said.

Asked about the tragic case with Bon Vivat, he said he could be prevented.

Any case could potentially be prevented. Now the question is what we can do to keep the case from happening again. The case in Bon Vivat actually raised the alarm to all institutions, as you are aware, we have requested a meeting with the regional police director, and Chairman for Progress Rama has called for more rigorous measures to be taken and to speed up the process of establishing the capital's” police.

Capital Security Director Wants to Harm the Punishments Against Those captured by Guns

The director of the Directorate for Security and Emergency in Pristina, Lulzim Fushtica, has called for penalties against the citizens they seized with firearms.

“The Interior Ministry has had the campaign in the last three or four years for legalisation of weapons, but one of the reasons, is punitive policy, the link of co-operation between the police officers, the court, that the people they caught with weapons be punished and not released in regular procedure and fined with amounts of money”, the Potenco Fushtica for “Front Online 83x>.

The penalty, according to him, has this effect.

“encourages the same ones to re-involve the offense. Punishment policies against violations of the law are strengthened and there is co-ordination between all institutions”, Fushtica claims.

Garbage: Capital police to function, boost security, cut reaction deadline

More than five years from the law's entry into force for Pristina, the capital still does not have municipal police.

The director of the Directorate for Security and Emergency in Pristina, Lulzim Fushtica, is demanding its operation as soon as possible.

His call comes at a time when one person was killed in Pristina and several others were injured.

The capital's “Police increase security, sense of security, police have the mandate only for the capital, co-operate with institutions, better co-ordinated, and the chain of command of three stations has a director, co-operation has increased”, Fushtica said.

According to Fushica, with the establishment of municipal police it would see the reaction deadline.

“Efficiency is measured with reaction time. With the establishment of the capital police, the reaction deadline will be cut. I don't know now what time it's time for raigim”

He promised that within a short time the entire capital will be covered by cameras.

“The tender for camera installations will be opened, preventing criminal acts and facilitating their solution, starting with murders, injuries, threats and problems in traffic”, Potencoi Fushtica.