The president of the non-governmental organization "Montenegrin Cultural Network", Aleksandar Damjanović, said that the Police Directorate is misleading the public with untruths in order, as he claims, to cover up the abuse of the law.
A few days ago, he claimed that the Budva police illegally filmed him on their premises, after which the Police Directorate rejected those accusations as unfounded and incorrect.
Damjanović recalls that, after receiving a decision from the Agency for Personal Data Protection and Free Access to Information, he shared the document with the public, with the aim of pointing out "disrespect for the law by the Budva Security Department."
He told the police department to "read it as it is written."
"Reading the reaction of the Police Directorate, which was not invited to speak about the technical details of the regularity of video surveillance in the Budva Police Station, but rather that is the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Interior, I wonder with how much disrespect they addressed the citizens? Minister Danilo Šaranović, who signs the minutes of the Agency for Personal Data Protection and Free Access to Information, has expertly pushed the Police Directorate to deceive the public instead of him. I call on the unknown heroes from the Police Directorate who dared to deceive citizens to show the Montenegrin public the documentation on the regularity of the installed video surveillance, which they did not have during the inspection," Damjanović wrote in his reaction.
He said that the Police Directorate's reaction represented a "pale and incoherent attempt to justify an obvious violation of the law" to his detriment by the Budva Security Department.
"Regarding the camera that illegally recorded me while I was talking to Inspector Danilo Knežević, I stand by my claim that it also recorded sound, and that the receiver for the audio recording is not on the main monitor in the duty room, but in another room. It is inappropriate for the Police Administration, using untruths, to deceive citizens in order to cover up the abuse of the law in this case, to my detriment. That this is not the first time that the Police Administration has abused the law is confirmed by the decision of the Agency for Personal Data Protection and Free Access to Information, based on which police cameras with biometric software were removed from roads in Budva, Bar and Podgorica," he adds.
He says that every citizen "should ask themselves what kind of offense this is and what certain people from the Police Department are willing to do, as well as to what level of abuse of authority they are willing to go to."
"I am not at all surprised by this attempt to deceive citizens by the Police Directorate, considering that the name of one of the assistant directors is mentioned in the Sky application in the context of cigarette smuggling, while another allowed the police action to be managed from Serbia during the enthronement of Joanikije Mićović," said Damjanović.
He said that, knowing Acting Police Director Lazar Šćepanović, he believes "in his honest intentions", but that in order to put them into action, he will have to "free the Police Directorate from the influence of incompetent Democrat cadres".
"I am truly sorry that I had to engage in a public debate with the Police Directorate, which I value and respect. However, I could not allow individuals from it to play with my credibility, trying to 'deprive the truth of life'. Finally, I appeal to the people from the Police Directorate to read as it is written, because in this case, even the folk proverb 'by the time the truth puts on a suit, a lie has traveled half the world' does not come to their aid," the reaction reads.
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