Gashi: Crime on the rise due to concentration of institutions in northern municipalities

The subx0 sector of public security is on the decline because the current concentration of the ministry, the police, is in the four northern municipalities, and the commitment to the responsibilities and obligations this institution has in other parts of the country has been overlooked. As a result, the changes made go in the direction of reducing the operational and physical presence of police on the ground and increasing the number of bureaucratic or government officials sitting in chairs. A total of 32 directors have been added, has been established in the Special Unit Division, all these changes -- increasing the structure of office officials reduce the number of officials serving on the ground” -- he noted.

Gashi has added that there is a lack of police officials, a lack of officials in countries targeted as potential countries for problems, and “the physical indepression of police officials has influenced the crime rate to rise”.

According to him, there should be moral resignations due to increased crime following recent events in the country with several deaths.

“Under normal conditions and legal states would have to have reflection from the high management of the two institutions, whether the ministry or the police. But from the practice it has never happened to be the resignations as a result of non-direct remaining”.

Gashi has cited a report by the Police Inspectorate, stressing that the timing of the police response is extremely long. You see the most disturbing thing that even with location is very close to the bar “Bon Vivant” where the murder occurred a few nights ago, the police needed time to arrive.

A report of the Inspectorate with remarks and suggestions to be undertaken on the operational level, but none of those remarks have been taken into account. Like increasing operational functioning, physical presence, response, reaction rate. Although officially we have the police ladder from the moment we call to the arrival of an extremely high event. I received information that in some European countries the reaction rate is under 100 seconds, and the reaction rate in Kosovo is about 14 minutes from when police are informed. It's a very long time”

The criminal objectives that took place in the center of the city create an even greater uncertainty because of the physical proximity this location has occurred, and the delay of the police in response to the chief of deeds”.

Meanwhile, Gashi has reiterated that the situation created in the country recently “as a consequence of the ministry and police concentration mainly in the four northern municipalities of Kosovo”.