Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro for Security, Defense, Fight against Crime and Internal Policy, Aleksa Bečić, announced that today's arrest of a police officer on suspicion of human smuggling clearly demonstrates two things.
"First, that the process of thoroughly cleaning up the security sector continues and that there are no protected individuals, regardless of rank, function or seniority. And second, that we have a system that no longer turns a blind eye to those suspected of betraying the uniform, but rather resolutely brings them to justice," Bečić stressed in a statement.
Border Police Sector Police Officer Radenko Savić (55) from Nikšić is one of three people arrested on suspicion of smuggling migrants.
"I would especially like to commend the officers of the Police Directorate and the competent authorities for showing that there are no privileged people before the law. It is not easy to arrest your colleagues, but that is the only way for the police to be credible. A clean police force is a condition without which there is no clean state. We are facing various obstructions, political and media, but I say: We will not stop. We will not stop until every uniform is cleansed of crime," Bečić said.
He said that he expects the Minister of Interior and the Director of the Police Administration to continue, without delay, the process of suspending all police officers for whom there are grounds for suspicion of criminal connections.
"Not because of statistics. Not because of pressure. But because of honest police officers and citizens of Montenegro. Montenegro has made a decision, it will never again be a country where the badge is worn by those who issued the law they swore to protect," said Bečić.
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