In the first three months of this year, 113 police officers were attacked, resulting in 13 criminal and 54 misdemeanor charges. Last year, 477 police officers were attacked.
The Police Directorate responded to Vijesti, explaining that despite the attacks, they remain committed to building a relationship of trust with the community.
"While performing their daily tasks, in a dynamic environment, and often in complex and demanding situations, police officers often face various types of challenges, including cases of attacks on officials, both physically and verbally. When implementing legal powers, police officers in some situations encounter citizens who resist, obstruct official actions or verbally and physically react to interventions, threats to life and limb, and most often in situations where it comes to disturbing public order and controlling traffic participants," explained the security institution, answering questions about when their officers are most often targeted.
67 cases of attacks on police officers committed against 113 police officers, which resulted in the filing of 13 criminal and 54 misdemeanor reports, were registered from January 1 to March 31, 2025.
Last week, police officers from Kolašin arrested military police officer Zoran Bakić (38) from Podgorica, who was drunk and fleeing in their vehicle. When they caught up with him, he threatened to leave them without a job, that it wouldn't end there, and called on them to fight physically.
The incident occurred on the afternoon of April 16, on the Mojkovac - Kolašin road, and the Police Directorate announced a day later that the thirty-eight-year-old initially failed to stop at the "Stop" sign, and then at the light and sound signals.
"During the control, the driver ZB presented himself to the police officers as a member of the Military Police of the Army of Montenegro, in an attempt to avoid further police measures and actions. When his attempt was unsuccessful and it became clear to him that he would be deprived of his liberty for a violation of the ZOBS-s, which he was informed about because the breathalyzer test that was then performed determined that he had 1,74 g/kg of alcohol in his body, ZB first began to protest, stating that the police officers had no right to control him, and then to threaten them that they would lose their jobs and that this would not end there, inviting them to a physical confrontation. The police officers then detained ZB at the Kolašin Security Department. The person did not resist during the arrest and no means of coercion were used against him," the police said that day.
That they are also targeted in police stations is shown by a recent example from Šavnik, in which, according to the UP, Danilo Janković (43) entered police premises on March 19, insulted a police officer and threatened him.
"And then he punched him several times in the head and neck, after which he walked away in an unknown direction."
He is suspected of committing the criminal offense of assault on an official in the performance of official duty.
"During 2025, from January 1.1 to March 31, 3, 2025 cases of attacks on police officers were registered, committed against 67 police officers, which resulted in the filing of 113 criminal and 13 misdemeanor reports," the UP specified.
Family attacks police
On the same day that an officer of the Police Directorate was attacked at the Šavnica police station, on March 19, almost an entire family attacked police officers in Rožaje, trying to prevent them from exposing cigarette smuggling.
The Police Department announced at the time that two persons of operational interest had been arrested, suspected of smuggling and attacking police officers - Enes Kajević (48) and Rizo Murić (41), and that the police were searching for Rahim Kajević (34) due to the attack on the police officers who were conducting the operation.
During the operation, officers from the Border Police Sector and the Regional Security Center "North" were attacked by members of Enes Kajević's family, and Murić threatened the police with an axe.
The prosecutor stated that the police are not arresting Lejla Kajević (18), daughter of Enes Kajević, who damaged a police vehicle, after which she blocked the access road with her car, with the intention of preventing the arrival of the fire department, all so that they could not extinguish the fire that the Rožaje people had set in their vehicle used for smuggling during the police operation, but rather to file criminal charges against her.
In addition to her, the police then filed a criminal complaint against her younger sister EK, aged 16, on suspicion of committing the criminal offense of assault on an official in the performance of official duty, as well as against their one-year-old younger brother.
268 attacks last year
Responding to questions about attacks over the past year, they said that 268 such cases were recorded, in which 477 police officers were attacked.
"According to the records of the Police Directorate, during 2024, 268 cases of attacks on police officers were registered, to the detriment of 477 police officers. On this basis, 63 criminal and 212 misdemeanor reports were filed," the UP said.
They said that, despite this, the Police Directorate remains committed to building a relationship of trust with the community:
"Through transparent conduct, professionalism and cooperation, mutual respect and understanding between the Police and citizens with the aim of creating a safe environment for the life and work of all citizens, including creating conditions for the safe and undisturbed work of police officers who carry out their tasks daily in accordance with the law, in conditions of increased pressure, stressful and risky situations."
They appealed to judicial institutions to adequately and legally sanction attacks on Police Directorate officers:
"In order to further influence the reduction of criminal offenses and misdemeanors to the detriment of police officers during the performance of official duties and police work through repressive mechanisms and criminal sanctions."
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