MUP
The director of the PIO fund reported Aleksić - for causing panic
The President of the National Movement of Serbia (NPS) Miroslav Aleksić went to the MUP on Monday to make a statement in his capacity as a citizen
MUP
Dragan Vasiljević is the new police director
The previous acting director of the police, Dragan Vasiljević, is now officially its director
Police and citizens
Morale has been at an all-time low since October 5th
"I'm standing in the cordon, and my daughter is shouting at me 'aw, aw, killers'. What should I do? If they ordered me - I would throw down my baton and bulletproof vest and stand on the side of my child," a police officer from the south of Serbia, who works as needed in the Belgrade Police Brigade, told "Vreme"
Chronicle
MUP: Five arrested for environmental crime
The Minister of Internal Affairs in the technical mandate, Ivica Dačić, said that through a coordinated action to suppress environmental crime, more than a dozen crimes against the environment were solved and five people were arrested, among them the responsible persons of business companies, who are suspected of obtaining financial benefits of 539 million dinars.
Police brutality
The trail of death behind "small" mistakes in work
Dead, maimed, beaten, abused... That's how the citizens who, for various reasons, find themselves under the hand and baton of the Serbian police end up. The last case, which few believe really happened like that, is the most bizarre: a man hanged himself in a garage, while his hands were tied
Seizure of drugs
MUP: Marijuana laboratory found near Despotovac
An illegal laboratory for the production of marijuana was found near Despotovac, the police announced
The fight against corruption
"Gagi Remont" and "Žaksi Metali": New arrests, this time for dealing with waste
In the continuation of the campaign against corruption, members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested another 24 people on the territory of Kragujevac
Protests in Serbia
VJT: The police did not submit a report on the attack on police officer Baćić in front of RTS
The Higher Public Prosecutor's Office (VJT) in Belgrade announced that the MUP has not yet submitted a report on the attack and injury of police officer Lazar Baćić at a protest in front of the Radio and Television of Serbia on March 10, 2025.
This situation
Pointing out the unholy in the police cordon
How many police do the MUP of Serbia count? What do the cases of inspectors Milenkovic and Mitić show, and what does the arrest of Belivuk's gang show? Why didn't the MUP guard student blockades and why did it start? How did every careerist and poltroon in the police get the opportunity to supposedly protect law and order? And in what way are those police officers who actually do it threatened
Corruption
The MUP is still silent about "small signs of attention" to privileged police officers
Lawyer Ivan Ninić says that such gifts are a serious precedent in the police, that they were apparently distributed to "loyalist police officers" and their superiors, and announces a report to the Internal Control Sector
Students
Request to initiate an investigation into the attack on students in front of the Assembly of Novi Sad
In the request sent to the MUP, the students state that during the protest of students and citizens in front of the Assembly of Novi Sad on March 18, members of the Intervention Police used coercive means against the gathered - an official baton
Security
BIA and MUP seize protectors as drugs: Who are these "special students"
On Saturday evening, the police announced that, in cooperation with the BIA, they found "a large quantity of shields and a box with 30 'protect' gas sprays" in the car of a student from Kragujevac. They presented the action as if they had caught the biggest terrorist
MUP
Proceedings against 11 persons "due to drastic disruption of public order and peace in Nis"
"The police, at the behest of the competent prosecutor's offices, continues intensive work on collecting the necessary information and undertakes operational measures," announced the MUP.
Police
MUP: We deny misinformation about the use of a "sound cannon"
"It was unequivocally established that none of the members engaged in the security of the protest heard, saw or used the so-called 'sound cannon'," announced the MUP
Sound cannon
The black hoods that followed the roar
A few minutes before the silence in Kralja Milan was broken by an ominous roar, 30 masked hooligans burst into Pionirski Park in an organized manner and began to target student-guards and those gathered in the surrounding streets
The mystery of the white vans
Services read "Time": White vans removed
The three white vans that were parked right next to the Presidency building during the protest and in the days after it, on Friday, March 21, after the writing of "Vremena" - are no longer there
Security
The mystery of three white vans without plates in Kralja Milan
Three white vans without license plates are parked right next to the Presidency building, a highly protected facility. Is there any special operation in the middle and whose vehicles are there, which were also there during the noise on Saturday
Sound cannon
Sound cannons were in action: Tested before the protest
Several "sound cannons" were deployed in Belgrade on the day of the protest, claims Danas' source from the Gendarmerie. This is also shown in a video from Saturday, where Minister Ivica Dacic demonstrated the use of the device after the press conference
Sound cannon
Dacic: MUP acquired devices with "audio warning equipment" in 2021
The Minister of the Interior, Ivica Dacic, pointed out that devices with "audio warning equipment" were not part of the police, because no law was passed on their use.
Mystery or attack
"Vreme" investigates: Dementors and stampede in Kralja Milan
Hundreds of testimonies collected by "Vreme" talk about an eerie wave and sound that "hit" people in Kralja Milana Street during fifteen minutes of silence on Saturday. This is an attempt to reconstruct the event
Police
V. d. Director of the Police: Individuals at the meeting on March 15 "exhibited great aggression"
Acting Police Director Dragan Vasiljević pointed out that during the protest on March 15, the police did not use any means of coercion and denied using a sound cannon.
New arrests
The manager of the Railway and members of the technical commission were arrested
Members of the Criminal Police Directorate (UKP) arrested the manager of "Zeleznica Srbije" based in Belgrade, in connection with the fall of the canopy in Novi Sad.
Student blockades
Can the police take care of the safety of students at the blockades?
The safety of students who spend their days blocking colleges seems to be nobody's concern. Attacks on them are almost daily. What role do law enforcement play at roadblocks?
State Administration
Gun tax: Institutions make mistakes, citizens pay
In January, Ninoslav Ismailović from Vranje received a bill from the Tax Administration for 140.000 dinars for the gun that he returned to the Police Administration at the beginning of 2020. This is not an isolated case. What happened
Security
MUP: In one month, 44 people were injured due to firecrackers, 24 of them children
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia warns that from December 1 of last year to January 7 of this year, 44 people were injured by pyrotechnic devices, more than half of them were children
Tragedy in Novi Sad
Dacic: Accidents have happened before, individuals try to abuse the fall of the canopy
As an example of the political irresponsibility of the previous authorities, the Minister of the Interior Ivica Dacic cited the death of people in the "Prvi May" factory, adding that even then no one offered to resign and that the impeachment of the Government was not requested.
Civil liberties
Arrest or kidnapping, police or Gestapo?
The long detention for the demonstrators in Novi Sad was preceded by arrests that looked more like kidnappings, according to Vremena's interlocutors. The behavior of the "plainclothes police" is reminiscent of Nazi Germany