It is necessary to establish a strong institutional readiness and will to approach serious and essential reforms in society, in order to prevent and prevent events similar to the tragedy in Cetinje.
This was concluded at a meeting of representatives of the Council for Civil Control of Police Work, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Police Directorate.
Public health policies, it was concluded, should have the function of practically reducing the risk of violence.
The meeting was held on the occasion of the mass murder in Cetinje on January 1, when Aco Martinović shot and killed 12 people and then committed suicide. Four wounded people are being treated in the Clinical Center.
The meeting was held in the office of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Danilo Šaranović, at the initiative of the Council. In addition to Šaranović, the president of the Council for Citizen Control of Police Work, Zoran Čelebić, member of the Council Dr. Milena Popović Samardžić, and Acting Director of the Police Administration, Lazar Šćepanović, were also present.
The council announced that on that occasion they discussed "the current sensitive security moment", with a focus on the last tragic event in Cetinje.
"They also discussed the possibility of designing and applying different modalities of cooperation and inter-departmental cooperation, which would lead to more effective general prevention, detection of the early cause of violence, recognition of patterns of behavior of persons that are induced by a certain degree of behavioral disorders, and thus preventing the escalation of violence It is important, in this sense, to establish a strong institutional readiness and will to approach serious and essential reforms in society, in order to prevent similar tragic events," the announcement reads.
They also discussed in detail, as they add, "numerous issues that burden the work and actions of the police," and the Council also made several recommendations that "should contribute to strengthening trust in the work of the police."
The council praised the Police Administration's communication with citizens and the media regarding this tragic event, "in the sense that a step forward was made in the transparency of the police and timely information to the public with precise data, and especially by giving warnings to citizens about the perpetrator and the danger this person represented."
"The Council and the Police Directorate - the Ministry of Internal Affairs remain committed to a calculated and trust-based cooperation, so that together, through the adoption of constructive recommendations and consistent application of the law, we will work to increase the level of transparency and further improve the work of the police," the statement reads.
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