Acting Director of the Police Administration Lazar Šćepanović said that he had been pointing out deviations in the police for years, but that he had been warned not to "go headfirst into the wall." He said that he had not resisted the pressure, that members of organized crime groups had come "to his house," but that he had not moved, saying that he would not.
He also said that they then pushed him aside.
He said this during a session of the Parliamentary Committee on Security and Defense, responding to a statement by Democratic Party of Socialists MP Oskar Hutter.
Hutter previously, commenting on his presentation, said:
"You talked about a two-decade legacy, which had deviant behavior. When we talk about honesty, you had two decades, because you were in that system, to tell us about all that deviant behavior. We are hearing them from you for the first time now, better late than never, but you should have pointed out to us in time everything that was in the system, when it was time, that is, in its infancy, in its beginnings. Now perhaps the roots have gone deeper and reach deeper, and it is harder to eradicate all that. So, you should have sounded the alarm in time and been honest when it was time," Huter said.
"Just when I identified cigarette smuggling in Nikšić, in a warehouse in Nikšić, I shared the information with the then management of the Police Administration, who promptly brought my information to the then management of the Police. Do you know what happened after returning from Podgorica? I was declared persona non grata in my security sector. So they kept me unassigned for five years," he said.
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