SKOPJE — Think-tank Analytica from Macedonia presented the report “The Citizen’s Opinion of Police Force in Macedonia” in front of police.
Analytica’s security researchers presented the main findings of the citizens’ perceptions of the work of the police in front of a working group from the Bureau of Public Safety within the Ministry of Interior on September 22, 2016. Present at this meeting was also the director of the Bureau, Mitko Cavkov.
The research showed that the police as an institution enjoys a high level of trust among citizens in Macedonia. 58,5 % of the respondents in the survey stated that they fully or mainly trust the police. However, despite this high level of trust, almost 60% of the respondents believe that corruption is widespread in the police. It is encouraging that 76% of the respondents stated that they would report such a case of corruption if they experienced one.
However, they also were not sure where they are supposed to report such a case, and only 12% of them responded that they would report a case of corruption in the police to the Department for Internal Control and Professional Standards within MOI.
The results of the survey are available on the following link.
Civil society organizations
dedicated to oversight of police integrity.