KPS launches probe against Serb officers

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA Kosovo police (KPS) spokesperson Besim Hoti has said that the KPS has launched an internal investigation against eight police officers of Serb nationality. This is because they "refused to act on orders from the regional police headquarters", he stated. KPS launches probe against Serb officers Hoti told Tanjug that the police officers had refused to carry out orders they had been given during "an event" in the neighborhood of Brdjani in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica. He refused to give any details about what those orders were. The members of the Kosovo police are of Serb nationality, they have not been suspended, but there is an internal investigation against them underway, Hoti said. He added all eight members of the Kosovo police of Serb nationality work at the police station "Mitrovica Sever" (Kosovska Mitrovica Norht". People living in Brdjani gathered in the neighborhood Thursday morning to express their protest against the building of houses for ethnic Albanian citizens in that part of the city, but the situation calmed down in the afternoon. The Serbs who gathered there said they were not against the reconstruction of the destroyed houses, but rather against the construction of new houses for the Albanians who had never lived in the neighborhood. Tanjug

KPS launches probe against Serb officers

Hoti told Tanjug that the police officers had refused to carry out orders they had been given during "an event" in the neighborhood of Brđani in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.

He refused to give any details about what those orders were.

The members of the Kosovo police are of Serb nationality, they have not been suspended, but there is an internal investigation against them underway, Hoti said.

He added all eight members of the Kosovo police of Serb nationality work at the police station "Mitrovica Sever" (Kosovska Mitrovica Norht".

People living in Brđani gathered in the neighborhood Thursday morning to express their protest against the building of houses for ethnic Albanian citizens in that part of the city, but the situation calmed down in the afternoon.

The Serbs who gathered there said they were not against the reconstruction of the destroyed houses, but rather against the construction of new houses for the Albanians who had never lived in the neighborhood.