Gendarmerie or Local Multiethnic Police?
Gendarmerie or Local Multiethnic Police?

Summary/Abstract: The need for the presence of the gendarmerie on the Serbian south has ceased to exist and the multiethnic community police are capable of securing peace and order.” This is not a lone voice of an Albanian leader. Namely, the presence of the gendarmerie is one of the main problems the Albanians perceive as an obstacle to the stabilization of the Serbian south. But whether it is possible to withdraw special police units from an area wherein the possibility of a new conflict should not be completely ruled out, that is still an opinion-splitting question. The debate on the justifiability of militarizing this part of Serbia or of the demands to withdraw special police units must reckon with the imminent termination of negotiations on the future status of Kosovo and the threats that may arise from the discontent of either of the negotiating parties.[...]

• Details
• Contents