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As “Politika” unofficially finds out, the insignia of one of the police unions is owned by more than 10,000 people in Serbia. The problem is that most of these badges visually recall the original police IDs that many abuse and deceive the police and citizens. There are also police union badges that visually look like documents from the Directorate of Criminal Police (UKP), which is particularly concerning.
“Politika” received photos of examples of these badges from interlocutors at the Interior Ministry, which were actually made to look like real police badges and are owned by people who do not work in the service.
Members of police unions can only be people who work in the Ministry of the Interior. They already have police IDs, so they don’t even need other credentials. However, the police union may also have honorary members, and it is precisely these people who are most often distributed and given gifts, and some are sold badges, which is legitimate. This is not prohibited by any law. But there are registered police unions that do not even have 100 members, and they have distributed or sold more than 1,000 plates similar to the original ones, it is said in police circles. An ordinary citizen does not know how to distinguish a real police badge from a “fake” one, and some of those identifications were made so credibly that they misled a police officer who has been wearing a uniform for 30 years.
Recently, there have been several cases of misuse of police union badges. During the recent arrest of MA A few hours after he went mad and shot into the air after a fight on Kumodraška street in Belgrade and fled in his “Porsche”, the police found not only a pistol, but also bulletproof vests, a stop stick used by traffic police and a badge from a police union. It is almost identical to the official identification of the members of the Serbian Interior Ministry and held by people, as MA is a real weapon. The possibilities for misusing fake police credentials are limitless, from people who demonstrate such legitimacy to a traffic cop who would not pay a fine for serious crimes.
In order to protect the safety of citizens and the reputation of the police profession, the Serbian Police Union (SAA) believes that the organized collective production, trade and use of placards and identification cards, which in appearance and content they bear many similarities to the official badges and identifications of MUP members. .
Lazar Ranitović, president of SAA, tells “Politika” that they gave a proposal to the Serbian Interior Ministry to protect the police badge with the Police Law, and thus protect the citizens of Serbia.
“It has become unbearable how many police union badges on the streets look like real ones,” says Ranitović, stressing that the SAA, which has 7,000 members, does not make any badges, but does distribute ordinary membership cards to its members.
“There are more than 20 unions in the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, but of that number, four unions (3,000 to 13,000 members) deal more or less with the problems of the employees, while others take care of some of their interests. because they were founded by certain people. to marginalize unionism in the MUP. In 13 years of existence, the SAA has seven honorary members and most of them are legal representatives of the union, but none of them have an insignia but rather a membership card that it looks like a bank card, “says Ranitović and asks what is the goal of those people who have a badge that unmistakably reminds the police.
In ninety percent of cases, they are used by those on the other side of the law, adds our interlocutor.
The Serbian police police union is often the subject of complaints from field police officers, who claim that rape people refer to the union’s insignia and tell the officers that they are colleagues.
“There were examples of people who do not work in the Ministry of the Interior showing a police officer a union badge and saying that they had forgotten the original at home. A girl who works in a tavern in Zlatibor bragged in the bar that she works for the Ministry of the Interior and showed a kind of union badge that looks like a police badge, ”adds Ranitović.
Explain that when police officers commit a misdemeanor, they should not invoke official identification.
“If I am stopped by the traffic police, and I invoke the fact that I am a policeman, and when they sanction me, I answer to the law for a traffic offense, but also to the Police Law because I have damaged the reputation of the service.” We in the service must not take anyone to the other end of the line to, for example, register a vehicle or obtain an identification card, because we can be held liable for abuse of official position and lose our job. On the other hand, insignia are produced, distributed and sold to civilians, which unequivocally resemble the official ones. That must stop, “concludes Lazar Ranitović.
More than 100 false IDs from the Serbian Interior Ministry are also with members of the “Skaljarski” and “Kavački” clan, according to unofficial information. Apparently, the unions distributed these badges to the criminals, which are very similar to those of the police. According to these accusations, criminals use these identifications, like DB badges in the past, in the most serious crimes. This fact is supported by the fact that members of the Home Office often find forged police IDs among criminals who are arrested.
Boro Banjac, former director of UBPOK, agrees that the area of police union badges should be regulated.
“That badge must be diametrically different from the police badge, with a different shape and cover. We also recall that members of the ‘Zemun clan’ wore badges that looked like policemen and obtained them from a union,” concludes Boro Banjac.
The price of “fakes”: from lunch in a cafe to 5000 euros
As we found out, the price of a fake police badge varies from a normal lunch in a cafe to 5,000 euros. In April, the police officer M. was arrested. SECOND. (35) and R. METRO. (37), which manufactured and sold counterfeit police badges for 250-500 euros. The two were arrested during a sale in Novi Sad.
“Only those who deserve it should wear a police uniform.” The State needs to find a way, and the SAA will always be collaborators in that direction, so that the ‘dirty policemen’ are not our companions at all ”, says Lazar Ranitović.
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