CITIZEN-ORIENTED POLICING: Effective Fight against Serious and Organised Crime
CITIZEN-ORIENTED POLICING: Effective Fight against Serious and Organised Crime

Author(s): Author Non Specified
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Summary/Abstract: On 24-25 February 2023, in cooperation with partner organisations, the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) organised a citizens’ assembly in Vrnjačka Banja. The topic of the assembly was how the police could better respond to the needs of citizens in the area of fighting serious and organised crime, while the immediate reason was the ongoing debate on the Draft Law on Internal Affairs. On this occasion, 36 citizens from all over Serbia were selected to discuss two topics from statutory solutions that have proven to be significant during the public debate. The first topic concerned biometric surveillance, i.e. the new powers of the police in the field of biometric data processing granted thereto in the new Draft Law, while the second related to police management, or, more precisely, to the relationship between the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Director of Police and the Public Prosecutor’s Office. The debate was structured in line with the best practice and, for the first time in the short history of the application of the citizens’ assembly as a model in Serbia, included the presence of decisionmakers. Namely, the final plenary debate was attended by three representatives of the Ministry of the Interior who are members of the Working Group charged with drafting the relevant Law, two opposition MPs, one representative of the opposition political party and a public prosecutor.

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