Gashi: Over 200 thousand citizens carry potentially illegal and dangerous weapons

Former Foreign Affairs Minister Bejtush Gashi has said the recent murders that are taking place in Kosovo are disturbing, saying concrete measures and actions must be taken in relation to responsibility.

Until, the minister said that according to unofficial statistics over 200,000 citizens carry weapons with them, where the minister said they are all potentially illegal and dangerous for those who carry them.

Gashi says it is a department within the police, the Community Police Department, which according to him, is generally to convey and monitor the situation in the field.

“This concern has to go into the ears of the responsible to take concrete measures and actions in relation to the responsibilities they have, here is a complex of measures to be taken in the area of prevention. We lack the binding legal service that police have to offer endangered citizens' support respectively, security policies must be revised. It is a department within the police, the Community Police Department, which is generally live to transmit and monitor the situation on the field, police with the integrity and high degree of professionalism to create a citizen and police credibility and at the same time engage police intelligence”, has declared Gashi in Tve1.

According to Gashi, these cases are on the rise because, according to him, the increase in the penalty rate is low and the lack of police officials' presence in high-risk countries.

Furthermore, he said citizen-cop communications are extremely small.

The scale of punishment, unfortunately, we have such cases that do not receive deserved punishment, the lack of police officials' presence in countries where they are potentially in high-risk countries especially in the new generation. Communication with citizens and the concerns they face is extremely small especially needs to increase the availability of state by school institutions especially in high schools, where those environments can usually be the source of all the activities related to the criminality of this generation”, the former minister said.

He has even mentioned that cold weapons have been found in some schools where such checks have been conducted.