Правила о тајној полицији у Београду 1900. године
Regulations of the Secret Police in Belgrade in the Year of 1900

Summary/Abstract: A formal administrative act, containing a thorough plan named - Regulations of the Secret police, was written in the office of Serbian Ministry of police and sent in a form of request to be put in immediate use by the Superintendent of the Serbian Capital, in year 1900. These Regulations represents one of the few detailed official documents which could iluminate the tehnical organization of the political police, an illusive and “dark” force of the late Obrenovich era. Hated and feared in the same time, by the common residents of Belgrade, secret police agents gradually became inescapable elements of urban scenery at the break of the centuries. Being present all over market places, streets, hotels and numerous inns of the Serbian capital, their ears vere sharply pointed in direction of assumed or (even more often) imagined political opponent. However, the formal attempt to legalize the ocupation of secret police agent in year 1900, was quickly withdrawn and placed in police archive to be forgotten. Regardless of formal and direct demand issued previously by the Minister of police, Superintendent of Belgrade never realised that plan. To disclose the existance of such a secret state institute to a Serbian public and press could be a serious political error. It would imply that the king Alexandar`s regime is so feeble and weak, that it is forced to use most unpopular and dishonest political methods to suppress the opposition. Bearing that in mind, high police officials decided that it would be sensible to continue with the old practice of financing numerous unformal informers, not confessing nor denying their exsistance publicly.

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