Police restructuring
03/01/2005
OHR’s Statement at the International Agency’s Joint Press Conference
The High Representative will visit Banja Luka tomorrow where he will meet senior RS political leaders. One of the main topics of discussion will be Police restructuring.
The remaining legislative and administrative task which must be implemented before BiH can move forward along the path to Europe - is police reform.
02/25/2005
Police Restructuring – EUPM Commissioner Kevin Carty met with Police Trade Unions in Mostar
Today in Mostar, European Union Police Mission (EUPM) Commissioner Kevin Carty met with the representatives of the police unions of the Federation of BiH, Republika Srpska, Central Bosnia, Livno and Brcko District. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the police restructuring proposal recently prepared by Wilfried Marten’s Police Restructuring [...]
02/03/2005
Communiqué by the PIC Steering Board
The Political Directors of the Peace Implementation Council Steering Board met in Brussels on 3 February under the Chairmanship of the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown.
01/31/2005
Remarks by the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, at the Press Conference on Police Re-Structuring
I will make three statements on the Police Reform Commission and the choice of maps and then we’ll take the questions.
I want to begin by first of all by expressing my welcome to you and my thanks to Prime Minister Martens and members of the PRC for their very hard work. They produced a bold and far-reaching reform of the current policing system [...]
01/13/2005
OHR’s Statement at the International Agency’s Joint Press Conference in Banja Luka
The Chair of the BiH Police Restructuring Commission, Wilfred Martens, will tomorrow formally present the Commission's final report to BiH Prime Minister Adnan Terzic and High Representative Paddy Ashdown. The Commission completed its work in December 2004. The report will be presented at the offices of the Council of Ministers, the Joint Instituti [...]
12/16/2004
Statement by the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown at today’s Press Conference
This is the press conference I had hoped I wouldn’t have to call.
Because we are here today, as we were after the Istanbul Summit in June, to take stock of the fact that, yet again, NATO has given this country a ‘NO’ to PFP membership because of its continued lack of co-operation with The Hague.
12/13/2004
High Representative Calls On PRC To Eradicate Politics From Police Reform
Speaking this morning at the start of the final Police Restructuring Commission (PRC) session - which is due to run until Wednesday this week - the High Representative, Paddy Ashdown, said “the PRC’s task is unambiguous; to create a single police system, free from political interference, capable of serving the citizen and taking on criminals from l [...]
10/28/2004
PRC Declaration signed
Police Restructuring Commission of Bosnia and Herzegovina met today in Brussels with senior officials of the European Union, High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana and European Commissioner for External Affairs, Chris Patten. During the meetings, the Police Restructuring Commission presented the Institutions of th [...]