Police of Serbia

Badge of Serbian police

Badge of Serbian Ministry of Interior

Members of the Serbian police during bicycle patrol.

Law enforcement in Serbia is delegated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Template:Lang-sr, Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova), which is responsible for all local and national law enforcement services in Serbia. Admitted to the OSCE on 10 November 2000, the General Police Directorate of the Ministry of Interior has 15 organizational units and 27 Regional Police Directorates.

Organization

The Ministry's General Police Directorate operates five separate departments, the Department for Organization, Prevention and Community Policing, the Department for Public Peace and Order and Other Police Affairs, the Department for Special Actions, Intervention Police Formation, Defense Preparations and Reserve Preparation, the Department for Control of Legitimacy of Work and the Department for Staffing, Improvement and Police Equipping. There are 161 local police stations across the country, 62 border patrol stations and 49 traffic police stations. As of September 30, 2006, these stations provided a total of 42,740 staff members (26,527 of these uniformed officers) for a population of about 7.4 million. 80.04% of the police force were male at this time, and 19.96% were female.

Education

The law enforcment education in Serbia, is provided through the Basic Police Training Centre and the Criminal and Police Academyas. Within the Training Centre there are local educational centres at: Makiš, Belgrade, Kula, Klisa, Petrovo Selo, Jasenovo, Mitrovo Polje and Kuršumlijska Banja.

Police rank

• General policije.
  General policije.

• Mladji policajac.
  Mladji policajac.
• Mladji policajac (1 klasa).
  Mladji policajac (1 klasa).
• Policajac (1 klase).
  Policajac (1 klase).
• Samostalni policajac.
  Samostalni policajac.
• Mladji policijski narednik.
  Mladji policijski narednik.
• Mladji policijski narednik (1 klasa).
  Mladji policijski narednik (1 klasa).
• Policijski narednik.
  Policijski narednik.
• Mup pripravnik.
  Mup pripravnik.
• Mup policajac.
  Mup policajac.
• Viši policajac.
  Viši policajac.
• Zastavnik pripravnik.
  Zastavnik pripravnik.
• Potporučnik pripravnik.
  Potporučnik pripravnik.
• Policijski inspektor.
  Policijski inspektor.
• Samostalni policijski inspektor.
  Samostalni policijski inspektor.
• Glavni policijski inspektor.
  Glavni policijski inspektor.
• Policijski savetnik.
  Policijski savetnik.
• Glavni policijski savetnik.
  Glavni policijski savetnik.

See also

• Crime in Serbia

External links

• Ministry of Internal Affairs
• Organigram of the Ministry of Interior
• OSCE Study on policing in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - by Richard Monk (2001)
• OSCE Report Police Reform in Serbia: Towards the Creation of a Modern and Accountable Police Service - by Mark Downes (2004)
• OSCE Report Policing the Economic Transition in Serbia: An assessment of the Serbian Police Service's capacities to fight economic crime - by Reto Brunhart and Novak Gajić (2005)
• Police Reform in Serbia: Five Years Later - by Branka Bakic and Novak Gajic (2006)