As part of the determined and institutionally led fight against crime, corruption and all unauthorized influences within the system, four more police officers of the Police Administration of Montenegro were suspended today, due to suspicion of creating a criminal organization, as well as due to established security obstacles to further work in the service, announced Aleksa Bečić, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Montenegro for Security, Defense, Fight against Crime and Internal Policy and Coordinator of the Bureau for Operational Coordination of the Intelligence and Security Sector (BOK).
"All persons who have so far been identified as security threats have, in accordance with Article 176, paragraph 6 of the Law on Internal Affairs, immediately had their official identification cards, badges, weapons and all equipment entrusted to them within the scope of their duties confiscated."
"For the first time in the modern history of the Police Directorate, a comprehensive and massive process of checking the integrity of police officers is being carried out, not only through formal procedures, but also through an analysis of their lifestyle, material resources and security concerns. Because it is not enough to wear a uniform if the values it symbolizes are not also personal," reads a statement that Bečić submitted to the media.
The Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Democrats said that the hybrid activities of organized crime, connected to individuals within institutions, will never again have shelter in the state apparatus, no matter how much certain factors in the socio-political-media scene oppose it.
"The process of cleansing the system of all unauthorized influences will not stop. I expect this process to continue even stronger and deeper, down to the last member of the system who served the mafia, not the state. Because only a completely clean security sector can guarantee citizens what they have been denied for years: trust, security, and justice."
The badge and authority of this state can and should only be worn by those who have nothing to hide, but have something to defend: the law, citizens, and the honor of the profession.
In that spirit, I extend my full support and congratulations to the Minister of Internal Affairs Danilo Šaranović and the Director of the Police Administration Lazar Šćepanović, who have shown that there is strength, knowledge and courage to fundamentally change the system," the statement concludes.
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