Creation of Judicial Police, Remaining Project for Two Decades on Paper

With recommendations from Interior Ministry experts, it was then decided that police work in the judicial system should be cared for by regular police.

But prosecutors in Pristina are seeing the establishment of judicial police as necessary.

The prosecutor, Paulin Paschk, until clarifying what duty the judicial police would carry out says it would help the prosecutor's work.

The “has so far remained as just an idea, but in practice it is very necessary because it would facilitate the prosecutor's work. In the case of forming judicial police, they would have their investigators available. Of course, this would also affect the quality of the process of subjects”, Pashku has told Radio Kosovo.

A professionally conducted investigation also affects fair decisions, says lawyer Fehmije Bytyqi.

The “would certainly help both the prosecutor's and the attorney's work but also its justice system”, she says.

The justice ministry has not specified whether the establishment of judicial police is planned to meet - amend the laws that are under way, repeating that reform in the justice system is necessary.

Forming the Judiciary Police in some cases had also called for the Kosovo Judiciary Council, which in many countries, works mainly under the authority of the State Prosecutor, and in some cases has been named “criminal police officer”. In Kosovo, judicial police work is carried out by crime department police, operating within the Kosovo Police.