"Third armed force emerging"

Along with MUP and the military, a third armed force is shaping up in Serbia, Politika writes today about the private security agencies.

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Monday, 17.11.2008.

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Along with MUP and the military, a third armed force is shaping up in Serbia, Politika writes today about the private security agencies. Some 3,800 private, so-called physical-technical security, and detective agencies currently operate in the country, while the sector has not been properly legally regulated. "Third armed force emerging" They employ around 50,000 people, who carry 47,000 pieces of weapons, own 15,000 flak vests and hundreds of armored or semi-armored vehicles. In addition, the private security personnel use highly sophisticated audio and video technology, Politika says. Last week an international gathering in Novi Sad, dubbed, Private Security – Status and Perspectives, pointed to the problems in the sector. Security and criminology experts from Serbia were joined by their colleagues from Macedonia, Republic of Srpska, Denmark and the United States in a number of discussions. Diplomacy and Security Academy Director Andreja Savic says that the procedure to open an agency is fairly simple, which leads to incompetent and unskilled persons becoming the owners. Their profile, Savic, who is a former BIA directorate chief, goes from semi-criminogenic to criminogenic, to those who come from the realm of politics. The legal vacuum has been present in the area since 1993 when the Law on the System of Social Self-Protection was cancelled. Now the work of security agencies is regulated with obsolete laws dating back to the former Yugoslavia or the 1990s, and through legislation that regulates the sector of business entities.

"Third armed force emerging"

They employ around 50,000 people, who carry 47,000 pieces of weapons, own 15,000 flak vests and hundreds of armored or semi-armored vehicles.

In addition, the private security personnel use highly sophisticated audio and video technology, Politika says.

Last week an international gathering in Novi Sad, dubbed, Private Security – Status and Perspectives, pointed to the problems in the sector.

Security and criminology experts from Serbia were joined by their colleagues from Macedonia, Republic of Srpska, Denmark and the United States in a number of discussions.

Diplomacy and Security Academy Director Andreja Savić says that the procedure to open an agency is fairly simple, which leads to incompetent and unskilled persons becoming the owners.

Their profile, Savić, who is a former BIA directorate chief, goes from semi-criminogenic to criminogenic, to those who come from the realm of politics.

The legal vacuum has been present in the area since 1993 when the Law on the System of Social Self-Protection was cancelled.

Now the work of security agencies is regulated with obsolete laws dating back to the former Yugoslavia or the 1990s, and through legislation that regulates the sector of business entities.

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