Prison escapes, USKK criticised for lack of responsibility

After the three recent fugitives, successive criticism for lack of responsibility has taken over the Kosovo Correcting Service and the Ministry of Justice. While giving criticism of negligence and lack of responsibility, field connoisseurs have proposed reviewing prison regulations and the Ministry of Justice, analyzing their current operating system.

They are the dwellings of those who have committed grave deeds, yet the blind often have proved to be too easy for them.

And if not from bars, prisoners like L. A few days ago, they used places where they were accepting medical treatment, such as KKUK, to escape with the cases were suspended by two officials.

For this very reason, successive criticism has been made against the SKK and the Ministry of Justice.

On frequent cases of recent escapes, one of the former SKK leaders estimates that a lack of responsibility is being shown.

It's just someone who needed to be given responsibility first, a senior official not just those who've been saving and going home to the poor. He has moral and indirect responsibilities, or he resigns from home or this trend stops. It's a component of service, it's a state component,” said Sokol Zogaj, former director of the USKK

And it affects those cases, according to Zogaj, even leaving its own regularity, with countless defects.

In terms of security, I think the regulation needs to be changed. For example, from the Dubrava prison that they transport to Smreconica that when they get there, a hundred officers are left to a prisoner, he escapes there without a siege. Day and night, he's free, he can go home. Even in Dubrava, changes are needed not this way, Zogaj added.

But according to security connoisseurs, the fugitive role is also playing the negligence of USKK officers.

It is the very person who escapes and then workers at the service of the USKK Guardian, policemen who have not done the job properly, is an individual responsibility. The Ministry of Justice must analyse the situation and where the system that has escaped so far some of Kosovo's prisons --” said Avni Islami, the security connoisseur.

So far, according to data the Ministry of Justice has sent to Dukaagjini television, measures have been taken on the eight officials responsible.

In any case that you have hired, the Justice Ministry Inspectorate and the Kosovo Correcting Service have conducted internal administrative investigations. The disciplinary commission on these cases has so far held several hearings, and after completing the process you will be notified of the disciplinary measures taken against each official. For your information, four (4) corrective officials have been suspended from work for all three cases, while in total the disciplinary procedure for these cases there are eight,” said by the Ministry of Justice.

More than a month ago, Faton Hajrizi, convicted of a host of criminal acts, managed to escape the Smrekonica prison for the ninth time since the post-war prison.

After him, from Dubrava prison, Wykan Metaj also left.

In all, by 2007, 56 prisoners have escaped from Kosovo's prisons.