Two senior law enforcement officials suspended for ties to criminal clans

Police, special forces, Photo: Hello! / Masanori Yoshida

The Minister of the Interior, Aleksandar Vulin, stated that he sent an order to all police administrations in Serbia for any police officer who has any contact with criminal groups to report it to the competent officers.

“If he does not do so, serious sanctions will be imposed, and if he hides it, it is that he is not doing operational work, that he is not collecting information,” Minister Vulin explained to RTS, recalling that two policemen were suspended in Novi Pazar. inspectors who contacted members of criminal structures.

Speaking about the situation in Novi Pazar, Minister Vulin pointed out that that city, like any other city in Serbia, must be safe.

“I don’t want anyone’s son to be afraid to go out because some of them shoot each other, argue about parking or do drug deals.” “Yesterday we confiscated five cars from various narco-clans, several weapons, narcotics,” said Minister Vulin.

Speaking about requests for personnel at the Interior Ministry, Vulin noted that the team is constantly being formed and that it is not a purge.

“Every minister brings in people that he believes he can work with better and that he has confidence in. Not because he thinks they did it wrong before him, but it is natural for him to bring in people that he thinks will work better,” Minister Vulin said, emphasizing that the newly appointed chiefs, such as the head of the Directorate of Criminal Police Bogdan Pusic and the chief of Belgrade police officer Veselin Milić, people he trusts and who have already achieved results and made things better.

The job of the Police Minister, as he pointed out, is not to arrest, but to appoint people, professionals who will do that job.