The duty of members of the security sector is to prevent violence, voter intimidation and election abuses on election day, and after the polling stations are closed to protect the integrity of the election process and ensure the legal determination of results
The research director of the Belgrade Center for Security Policy, Predrag Petrović, explains to "Vreme" how the "police and parapolice structures" work in coordination and what role in the context of the elections the Criminal Police Directorate, headed by Marko Krichak, has
Forensic analysis revealed that Russian hackers accessed part of the archive and read more than 28 e-mails of the Belgrade Center for Security Policy, which has been monitoring reforms in the security sector for almost 25 years.
The consolidation of the authoritarian system within the security apparatus, the replacement of loyalists with super-loyalists, their financial rewards - this speaks in favor of the fact that the regime is preparing the ground for a violent defense of the government. We had several trials for such a thing, say the use of a sound cannon, massive beatings of citizens for no apparent reason, dousing protesters with illegal chemical agents, and so on. The regime is clearly prepared to use massive repression against citizens in order to survive
The Belgrade Center for Security Policy conducted an analysis of the measures that were introduced after the tragedies that occurred on May 3 and 4 last year. The conclusion showed that the introduced measures were motivated by political interests to satisfy the public and that they were not adopted by professionals from the field of public security, justice or education. Therefore, some could not be implemented, and others are unsustainable
According to the data of the world research for small arms from 2018, it is estimated that there were 2.720.000 weapons in the possession of civilians in Serbia at that time. Of these, 1.186.000 are registered and 1.533.000 are unregistered. When it comes to the number of firearms per capita (civilian), according to the website World population review 2023, Serbia ranks fifth in the world, with an index of 39,1 per hundred people. It is important to note that Serbia is the only European country in the top five rankings
"'Jovanjica' was, quite clearly, a big state job. There was a combination of the highest state officials, the security services, the police, retired intelligence officers... It is a return to the old practice, from the time of Slobodan Milošević: the security services cooperate with criminal groups in order to realize their jobs and interests, and finance their activities."
The influence that Russia has in the security sector in Serbia is often present with the full consent of the Serbian authorities. Minister of Internal Affairs Aleksandar Vulin is the liaison person with the Russian security sector
After Air Serbia, the shopping center and the train station, it was the schools' turn: this morning, about a hundred elementary and secondary schools in Belgrade were evacuated due to reports of bombs. The reports were false. Marija Pavlović from BCBP believes that the action was organized
The deputy commander of the Niš detachment of the gendarmerie was arrested on Friday for illegal possession of weapons. This is not the first time that members of this police unit for special purposes find themselves in the public eye, but not as guardians of the law
