SKOPJE — New policy brief published by the Analytica from Skopje provides recommendations for sound policy solutions regarding the issue of proper operation and functioning of police service in Macedonia.
The aim of this policy brief is to describe the existing oversight mechanisms of the Macedonian police forces – whether they succeed at implementing proper control of the police forces and the use of force continuum, and what kind of challenges they encounter at their work.
The legal framework has envisaged several institutions to do oversight on the work of the police: the Department for Internal Control, Criminal Investigations and Professional Standards (DICCIPS) within Ministry of Interior, the office of Ombudsman, the Macedonian Parliament and its Committee on Security and Defence and the Standing Inquiry Committee for Protection of Civil Freedoms and Rights.
The policy brief provides a critical assessment of past police misdemeanors that occurred in Macedonia, how they were administered, and how they were resolved. It analyzes the Ombudsman’s role as an active external oversight mechanism, and to what extent it fulfills its role into reviewing citizens’ complaints against the police, how much the Ministry of Interior (MoI) is open for cooperation with the Ombudsman’s office, and how the communication between these two institutions is functioning.
It also examines the remaining oversight mechanisms of the security sector, such as the parliamentary committees and their work, with the overall aim of showing the current situation of the functioning of these mechanisms.
The author of this policy brief is researcher from Analytica Kaltrina Selimi. Downloaded it from HERE.
Civil society organizations
dedicated to oversight of police integrity.