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Petronic: Kosovo Serbs are an easy target due to inefficiency of the police (RTK2)

Security researcher Veroljub Petronic told RTK2 in the Show ''razgovor'' that Kosovo Serbs are an easy target for thieves due to inefficiency of the police and the judiciary.

Petronic explains that there is no mechanism for punishing perpetrators, which gives freedom for other criminals to continue or, in the worst case, expand their criminal activities.

Speaking about the increasingly frequent plunder of Serbian property in Kosovo, the guest of RTK2 points that organized crime groups receive information from local thieves and he states that they use even drones to test the terrain.

"These are professional thieves who use refurbished van for the purpose of stealing large cattle. The stolen cattle end up in the domestic market, in one of the many illegal slaughterhouses."

Petronic claims that the inspection service could determine the origin of this cattle, if it would control slaughterhouses.

The Serbs in Kosovo are frightened for their safety because those are armed organized groups, and in several cases, it was shown that they do not avoid using weapons, Petronic warns, and stresses that the greatest responsibility bears the Kosovo Police because of large number of thefts.

"The functioning of the police is the problem, because the groups monitor their communication, and it is possible that they have an insider in that institution." With the help of operational methods and prevention, there could be a lot of work to be done. "If the police inspectorate was doing better, it would monitor the efficiency of police work better. Certainly, there are some failures in the investigation, if this would be established, when the inspectorate would do better and the police themselves would do better," believes Veroljub Petronic.

"The priority of the inspectorates should be the efficiency of the police work and that it why the perpetrators have not been found," Petronic underlines.

A security researcher estimates that poor police performance is an indicator of mild indifference to solve these cases.

"It remains for people to organize themselves, to guard the villages or to install video surveillance and alarms, which is a very expensive option,'' concludes Veroljub Petronic.