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Overview of Policing in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author: Denis Hadzovic, Armin Krzalic and Alma Kovacevic

Publisher: Centar za Sigurnosne Studije (CSS), Bosnia and Herzegovina

Date: 2013

Volume: 94 pages, pdf

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On its path towards the Euro-Atlantic integrative path, Bosnia and Herzegovina has made significant steps forward towards democracy and establishment of the rule of law; but still the criminal justice system has not been recognized by its citizens as the service that must serve citizens. Oversight, transparency and responsibility are still terms that are not in the focus of the government institutions in carrying out their duties and assignments for creating the proper security environment. The image of rule of law and public peace and order is based on their personal perception, not the factual state; therefore, involvement of civil society in this area is more than needed. This research does not tend to reach a final judgment on the complex matter of police acting in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but to draw attention to relevant local subjects to the matter that neither has been sufficiently discussed nor written about in the past several years. There is an impression that the area of police was only in the interest of the international community endeavoring to support local authorities in building the police in BiH on democratic principles. Obscurely, a small literary work of art on police reform and capacity building is contradictory to the interest and resources directed by the donors into this area.