The failure of the police and the prosecutor's office to solve numerous mafia confrontations on the coast does not entail responsibility.
In the Police Directorate, they are not even thinking about resignations, and in the meantime, unsolved cases of mafia murders are piling up.
During the mandate of the head of the criminal police, Milovan Pavićević, that is, for a year and a half, there were 11 of them.
His remaining in that position, however, is not in question for the time being, and the former MUP coordinator and current Deputy Prime Minister, Duško Marković, in an interview with "Vijesti" Television, points out that resignations at this moment would not be a good solution because they would mean that the system is weak.
The fact that after the murder of Slavko Peković, the head of the criminal police, Milovan Pavićević, rushed to Bar, carrying specific instructions on what to do, did not lead to progress in this investigation either.
The liquidation of Peković is the eleventh during his term.
Pavićević was appointed to this position in February last year, and unsolved crimes are piling up.
Mafia confrontations in Bar and Kotor have escalated.
In the meantime, the Special Prosecutor's Office opened an investigation against Pavićević, that is, they are verifying the claims of the assistant minister of the interior, Vladan Delic, that he was involved in criminal activities.
All this, however, is not a sufficient reason for the top police to open the issue of Pavićević remaining in the position of the first man of the criminalistics sector.
Despite the fact that he shares the opinion of the public that everyone who performs important functions should also bear responsibility, former MUP coordinator and current Deputy Prime Minister Duško Marković believes that at this moment, dismissals and resignations are not a good message because it would mean that the system is weak.
"If the director of the police, now the chief of the criminal police, is replaced in a mafia showdown as a result of a mafia showdown, that is not a good message. It is possible that all this is happening to break up the system or threaten its stability, so I am asking for more caution and sensibility, it's easy to fire someone, it's easy to resign, but the question is what happens after that," said Marković.
Resignation for moral reasons, as far as the police is concerned, was recorded only in the case of Milan Tomić, the former head of the criminal police.
Recently, Bar police chief Miloš Radulović wanted to do it, but police director Slavko Stojanović did not allow him to leave his chair.
It is certain that armchairs are safer places than the streets of Kotor and Bar, but no one raises the question of responsibility for why the mafia overpowered the institutions, at least in these two cities.
In the meantime, a special police team ordered by the Special Prosecutor's Office is collecting evidence day and night, because, according to unofficial information, the deputy commander of the Kotor police Zlatko Samardžić is not the only one who cooperated with the Kotor criminal groups.
Allegedly, it is a matter of days when the list of police officers who helped criminals will be expanded.
The arrest of a police officer as a member of a criminal group, however, points out Dusko Marković, should not be seen as a dramatic situation, and such actions, he notes, should be praised.
"Regarding the arrest of the policeman, I expect you to praise the state institutions, the state, and not that we are now seeing it as some dramatic situation. This is a good message for everyone that law enforcement institutions are becoming free and do not forgive anyone breaking the law. "You cannot forbid anyone from breaking the law and going into crime, but the state is obliged to find him, arrest him and prosecute him," said Marković.
And while the investigators are trying to solve the crimes, giving the public information about the responsibility and irresponsibility of the authorities, the only thing that is clear to the citizens is that criminal groups in Kotor and Bar have been sowing death with impunity for years.
Citizens are afraid for their safety and helplessly wait for the outcome. However, Marković is sure that, with the joint actions of the special prosecutor's office and the police, the mafia confrontations will soon come to an end.
"You can see that recently a number of institutional actions have been launched, primarily by the Special Prosecutor's Office, to deal with organized crime legally and institutionally. I am pleased by the fact that the Special Prosecutor's Office, in addition to its numerous obligations and priorities that it has defined when it comes to political corruption, is also organized has now put crime in the focus of its priorities and that we have the first results," said Marković.
Until the criminals receive the long-promised answer from the institutions, the public wonders who will be the next victim of the mafia.
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