Due to the huge dissatisfaction with their own financial status and the position they occupy in society, police officers decided to express their position with a street protest and demand respect for this difficult and extremely dangerous profession.
This is stated in the announcement of the Independent Police Union signed by President Igor Rmandić.
"The complete lack of understanding, false and empty promises and the ignorant attitude of the relevant minister forced the police officers to seek their rights on the street," he said.
Rmandić says that the declarative willingness to help police officers "doesn't mean anything at all".
"That can't be spread on bread and given to a child for breakfast. Simply, you can't live on promises. We don't need anyone to tell us how proud it is to wear a uniform and serve our people. We know it much better because our pride lasts 20,30, XNUMX years and more. We have never and will not turn our backs on this country and this nation. The difference between us who are proud of our uniform and those who only talk about this pride is that we are used to hard work and sacrifice while they are used to cheap populism and demagoguery. It's time to change this second form of behavior from the roots," the announcement reads.
The independent police union invited all employees of the Police Directorate and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, regardless of whether they are members or not, to join them at a protest in front of the Government of Montenegro on October 20.10.2022, 10.30 at XNUMX:XNUMX a.m.
"Let's be united and convey the message that our families deserve a normal life, that we are also citizens of this country," the announcement reads.
Rmandić said that they expect and demand that during the protest, the Prime Minister of Montenegro in his technical mandate, Dritan Abazović, "who said at the Police Day celebration that the position of police officers must be better and that the Government will work on it" will receive them for an interview.
"A publicly spoken word is binding, Mr. Abazović is a very serious man and we expect that promise to be fulfilled. The relationship that turns into open humiliation of members of the police must stop urgently. The highest officials of this country must finally understand that they are just that, officials who they must provide this people with a life worthy of a human being. We do not ask for anything else," Rmandić said in the statement.
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