Stable security situation maintained

The head of the Public Security Service, General Sreten Lukic, acquainted the members of the Committee with the activities undertaken by the Serbian Ministry of the Interior in combating organised crime, as well as with measures implemented by the Ministry under the state of emergency.

Immediately after the assassination of the Serbian Prime Minister, Dr Zoran Djindjic, the services of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior were put on the highest state of alert, while determined and far-reaching actions were undertaken to identify, locate and take into custody the perpetrators of the assassination and their instigators, collaborators and other persons who could be connected to them. According to General Lukic, there had been no serious disturbances of public order during the implementation of the special measures, while the incidence of criminal offences had been reduced.

All the activities had been implemented through joint action by officers of the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, the Security and Information Agency and the Security Service of the Army of Serbia and Montenegro. General Lukic stressed that, in accordance with the Serbian Government’s order on the legalisation and surrender of arms, members of the public had surrendered a large quantity of firearms.