Šćepanović said that he is announcing an even stronger fight against organized crime.
Šćepanović said that the monument to Pavle Đurišić has existed in Montenegro since 2002.
"I don't know if it is in the same form or edition, but there is no evidence that it has crossed the state border at this moment. If we find it in the future, we will seize it in accordance with the law," said Šćepanović, adding that they are searching for the monument.
Regarding the monument to Pavle Đurišić, Šćepanović said that at the moment the order arrived, the police officers did not have the machinery to remove the monument, which weighs two tons.
Šćepanović said it was not a normal question whether he had blood on his hands in Botun, during the police intervention at a protest against the construction of a wastewater treatment plant.
Šćepanović said that in practice we have unregistered, announced or spontaneous public gatherings.
He said that spontaneous gatherings are equivalent to unannounced ones because there is no notification of the public gathering and no responsible person.
Šćepanović said that he did not have precise information on whether Miloš Medenica was in Montenegro or not, and even if he did, he would not share it.
Šćepanović said he doubts that anyone had to report or tell what the outcome of the verdict was for Miloš Medenica.
He said that he was not accusing Judge Vesna Kovačević.
Regarding the case of Miloš Medenica's escape, Šćepanović said that Prime Minister Milojko Spajić is not directly seeking his responsibility and that he has ordered an internal control to be carried out.
Šćepanović said that he would not resign and that if he did, organized crime would set off fireworks from the "Bemaks" building.
Šćepanović said that the UP could not have predicted the outcome of the verdict against Miloš Medenica.
The show's editor and host, Petar Komnenić, asked Šćepanović if he could confirm or deny his unofficial knowledge, whether someone from the Higher Court, directly connected to this procedure, had warned Šćepanović directly, after the procedure had ended, that there was a danger that Miloš Medenica would escape.
"In unofficial communication with a person who carried out certain activities, the director of the Police Directorate put all available capacities into action," said Šćepanović.
He said that the judge did not warn him during the proceedings, but rather communicated with him.
He said that there was nothing precise or specific in the conversation with the judge.
Šćepanović said that he does not see the statement by the National Security Agency (ANB) about Miloš Medenica as an accusation, but rather as a clumsily written statement.
He said that he disagreed with the ANB statement and that he thought that the ANB director had not even read it.
"The reason he wouldn't let him go like that is because he's absent and outside the territory," said Šćepanović.
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Šćepanović said that the supervision measure issued by the High Court for cases in which the three-year detention period has expired due to the failure to reach a first-instance verdict serves as an institute of abuse, allowing members of organized crime groups (OKG) to move freely throughout Montenegro within two years.
"The police administration controlled hundreds of OKG members and informed the High Court. At no point did the High Court issue an order or a more repressive, restrictive measure than this. The alternative measure means that for two years they can freely move around Montenegro, ski, swim, plan murders, and when a first-instance verdict is reached and they are sentenced to five years, this surveillance measure while they were at large, walking, is credited to them as having served their sentence," said Šćepanović.
He said he indignantly rejected the High Court's claims.
Šćepanović said that the UP cannot be identified with the Directorate for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions (UIKS) and maintain 24-hour duty in front of any person because this is not provided for by law.
Šćepanović said that he is the author of today's UP statement.
Šćepanović said that the Police Directorate (UP) will never provide operational information, but only facts that it can share with citizens.
He said that in the search for Miloš Medenica, the UP took specialized measures and actions.
"Hundreds of facilities have been inspected, last night there were 150 police officers at the state border, alarms were set at border crossings and before the person was found alive after the last check, which was one of the preventive measures. UP officers managed to issue an international arrest warrant in less than 24 hours and it is active in the Interpol central bureau. I hope that wherever Miloš Medenica is, UP officers, with the support of international partners, will arrest him wherever he is, from Montenegro to South America," said Šćepanović.
The first-instance verdict has been handed down, but there is no sign of the convicted person. After the court announced that Miloš Medenica had been sentenced to ten years and two months in prison, the police could not find him at his home address. Medenica had been under house arrest since October, after he was released from Spusk because the verdict was not issued within the legal three-year period from the indictment.
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The following questions will be asked in tonight's show Načisto:
Where is Miloš Medenica?
Does the police allow the blockade and paralysis of the state or does it act in accordance with its authority?
Does the law apply equally to all citizens of Montenegro or do we still depend on the political assessment of the moment?
How legal is the vetting that is being carried out within the police force, and will we really be getting hundreds of police officers soon?
What is the cooperation between the police and the prosecution, and what is the background to public correspondence and mutual accusations in several cases, such as the erection of a monument to war criminal Pavle Đurišić?
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