Gendarmerie

MUP

15.February 2026. MLJ

Calls for the overthrow of the president: A former member of the Gendarmerie was arrested

Members of the Anti-Terrorism Service arrested a former member of the Gendarmerie MJ (43) from Mladenovac on suspicion of calling on citizens to violently change the constitutional order and overthrow the President of Serbia

Overview of the week

13.February 2026. Philip Schwarm

Special Forces Belly Dance

Why is the belly dance of special forces at a show competition in Dubai so important in Serbia and similar authoritarian countries? It will have to do with media and other freedoms

Competition of special units

12.February 2026. NM

Worst placement so far: Serbian special forces at the competition in Dubai

At the competition called "Special Units for Weapons and Tactics", which was held from February 7 to 11 in Dubai, Serbia took 30th, 32nd and 46th place out of a total of 109 teams that competed

The commander of the Nis detachment of the Gendarmerie died after a heart attack

Tragedy in Niš

23.January 2026 IN THE

The commander of the Nis detachment of the Gendarmerie, Bojan Dikić, died after visiting a colleague in the hospital

Shortly after visiting a colleague who is recovering from a suicide attempt, Bojan Dikić, the commander of the Niš detachment of the Gendarmerie, fell ill in front of the hospital. He died in an ambulance

Police

12.November 2025 MS

MUP: Radoslav Repac is the new commander of the Gendarmerie

Police colonel Radoslav Repac is the new commander of the Gendarmerie, the Ministry of the Interior announced

Interview: Teodora Šulj

05.November 2025 Jovana Đurđić

There is no one to protect journalists

"When a member of the Gendarmerie approached us, I repeated several times that I was a journalist, and he said in a rude tone: 'What are you filming?' and hit me on the hand and the phone"

Units for breaking up demonstrations

12.September 2025 Davor Lukacs

The police are filming the police: Those who slack off in the act of caning, their wages are withheld

Special videographers film the police cordons in order to conduct an expert analysis of their actions afterwards. But also to find out later who is zealous and who is lazy

Violence in Novi Sad

05.September 2025 MLJ

Citizen initiatives: Gendarmerie to urgently stop attacks on citizens

Tonight (September 5) in Novi Sad, peaceful citizens, gathered to express their opinion, were brutally attacked by the police, according to Citizen Initiatives

The Regime Against the People: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Police

21.August 2025 Marija L. Jankovic

Ministry of Interior of Serbia in numbers and letters

While an "ordinary" police officer without a university degree works for about 80.000 dinars, his colleague in the Gendarmerie has at least three times the salary. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia has about 46.000 employees, of which 21.000 work in the administration. There are about 15.000 authorized officials, namely policemen in uniform or plainclothes, criminal, traffic and border police, and special units in Serbia. However, not all of them can be found at protests in Serbia, because many of them perform other tasks within their jurisdiction

On the spot

14.August 2025 Andrei Ivanji

Clash in Knez Milos: SNS beaters attack protesters

The government is pushing Serbia into a civil war. For now, pyrotechnics, sticks, bottles, and stones are used as weapons. The genie of violence has been let out of the bottle

Riots in the streets

06.August 2025 Marija L. Jankovic

Hand-to-Hand Skirmishes: Advances Strike Back

Belgrade progressives have been ordered to retaliate against citizens protesting in front of their party branches. As before in Čačak. Conflicts are programmed, and they can cause escalation

09.July 2025 B. B.

Victory Wired: The highway is blocked, the Gendarmerie has no sign or voice

Ever since the citizens of Užice bypassed the cordon and managed to block the highway on Monday, using the advantage of their "home ground", the gendarmes in that city have lost all traces. Apparently, it was decided that there was no need to mess with angry locals anymore

The spread of civil disobedience

08.July 2025 IN THE

Pleasures in the blockade: Mass protests, arrests and growing resistance

In recent days, the streets of Užice have become the site of a massive civil uprising. The residents of Užice say that they cannot be appeased by beatings and arrests

Civil protests

04.July 2025 AI

Why is the Gendarmerie chasing students and citizens?

The Gendarmerie is an elite police unit that should primarily fight terrorism and arrest dangerous criminals. Why are they now sending her to arrest children and remove containers from the streets

Detention, arrest, violence: Gendarmerie intervened in several locations in Belgrade

Arrest without explanation

03.July 2025 Tijana Stanic

Tijana Marjanović: How they arrested me

Nineteen-year-old Tijana Marjanović was among those detained during the Gendarmerie intervention in front of the Faculty of Law. Although she did not resist, the plainclothes policewoman tied her hands and without explanation she was taken to the station. Not even a day later, she does not know why she was arrested

Special police units

01.July 2025 Andrei Ivanji

The land of phantoms Vučić Aleksandra

The self-proclaimed Supreme Commander Aleksandar Vučić assumed the role of Supreme Prosecutor and Judge. After he declared the high school students, students, professors and generally protesting citizens to be terrorists, the police special forces pulled masks over their faces.

Special units

30.June 2025 Davor Lukacs

Does the police have the capacity for mass blockades?

Do the Gendarmerie, the Police Intervention Unit and the Police Brigade even have enough people to cope with mass blockades at the same time in multiple locations in multiple cities

Protest on Vidovdan

28.June 2025 TS

Big riots in the center of Belgrade: Tear gas was thrown at citizens

The first incidents in Belgrade began around 22 p.m., after the official end of the student protest. Citizens clashed with the Gendarmerie in several places near Ćaciland, and the first tear gas was thrown.

Epilogue of the incident in front of RTS

08.May 2025. Marijana Maksimovic

The silence of a policeman: "Lalet is better"

Lazar Baćić was seriously injured when a colleague mistakenly hit him in front of RTS. Baćić decided to keep quiet about it. "Vreme" inquired in his native village where Baćić is called Lale

Blockade of the Public National Service

16.April 2025. NR

Morning chaos in front of RTS: Police pushed students, workers brought into the building

In front of the building of the Radio-television of Serbia, the police forcefully opened a passage through the student blockade to allow the employees to enter, while the gathered people chanted "Lower the shields". After the intervention, the police withdrew, and students and citizens continued to block RTS

In memoriam

27.march 2025 Davor Lukacs

Srđan Grekulović (1962 – 2025): An old-fashioned policeman

Retired police colonel Srđan Grekulović, former commander of the Gendarmerie, a role model of an honest and honorable policeman, passed away.

Radio and Television of Serbia

11.march 2025 B. B.

RTS published a video of a police officer being injured

Serbian Radio and Television published a video showing a member of the Gendarmerie hitting his fellow policeman in the head. However, RTS notes that "students claim" that the video shows a gendarme hitting his colleague

Violence

11.march 2025 Ma. J.

Who hit police officer Lazar Baćić in the eye?

While Aleksandar Vučić claims that the policeman Lazar Baćić was "attacked by Bolshevik plenums in front of the RTS building", the videos show that the plainclothes policeman was actually punched by a gendarme

Clashes in front of the Public Service building

11.march 2025 IN THE

Students block RTS: Clash with Gendarmerie, Sarapa compares them to Nazis on Pink

In a sudden action, students blocked all entrances to RTS on Monday evening at 22 p.m. There was a clash with the Gendarmerie in Aberdare. The regime media's campaign against the student protests is in turbo mode. Vučić threatens arrests, Sarapa compared the students who blocked RTS to Nazis on Pink

Accusations of witnesses

16.December 2024 IN THE

Did the police raid the wrong club in Niš?

A charity concert in the club "Livnica" in Nis turned into a night of fear when members of the Police Department and the Gendarmerie broke in and, according to eyewitnesses, brutally abused the guests. Allegations of a mistake and a raid in the wrong place further alarmed the public

Hooliganism

29.October 2024 IN THE

Footage of the attack on the Gendarmerie: the Pole was "only" fined 20.000 dinars and deported

After the attack on the Gendarmerie during the TSC-Legija match, the Polish fan was fined 20.000 dinars and deported

30.June 2024 B. B.

Ambassador of Israel Yachel Wilan: There is no justification for a terrorist act

Israel's Ambassador to Serbia Yahel Wilan stated that there is no justification for the terrorist act that took place on Saturday, June 29 in front of the embassy of that country and pointed out that there is no justification for any other attacks, on any population at any time and anywhere in the world.