Police Cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia
Police Cooperation between Kosovo and Serbia

Author(s): Shpend Kursani
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense, Penal Policy
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: Balkan drug-trafficking;
Summary/Abstract: Both Kosovo and Serbia are situated in a region susceptible to various organized crime activities. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Balkan region is one of the main heroin trafficking corridors linking Afghanistan to the huge markets of Western Europe.1 “The Balkan route traverses the Islamic Republic of Iran (often via Pakistan), Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria across South-East Europe to the Western European market, with an annual market value of some $20 billion.2” Despite the large market value of the drugs passing through the Balkans, only 24 per cent of the 73.7 metric tons of heroin seized worldwide was intercepted in the region,4 while 39 per cent is seized in the Near- and Middle East and South-West Asia and 10 per cent in Western and Central Europe respectively.

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