The investigative newspaper in Serbia, “Radar,” has dedicated a special article to the IPA organization in Serbia, which has its own parade uniforms.
It is this organization whose emblems, according to this newspaper, were found in the vehicles used by Milan Radoiçiq and other participants of the September 24 terrorist attack to travel to Banjska. Signs of the Serbian branch of the International Police Association (IPA), according to the Report of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, were also found, and these facts are supported with photographs from the scene.
According to this newspaper, the emblems of this organization are used as a sign of recognition, a hidden signal that it is an organization connected to the government.
Thus, it is possible that the distinctive signs of a police organization are found in places where serious crimes are reasonably suspected to have occurred.
As already written by Radar, one of the bearers of the symbol of this international police association in Serbia is an “agricultural entrepreneur” – Predrag Koluvija.
It is unclear how someone who has never been in police service, thus the right to possess an emblem of this organization, which ordinary citizens often confuse with international police organizations like Interpol, meets the membership criteria.
The commonality of such confusions is evident from the explanation on the international IPA website, which clearly states that it is a friendship organization.
“We do not investigate crimes. If you want to report a crime, please contact your local police station or judicial authorities. Otherwise, visit the Interpol website for more information,” says the organization’s website.
There is no similar warning on the Serbian branch of the IPA’s website.
According to the statute of this organization, its members can be active and retired employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Serbia, participants of basic police training at the Ministry of Internal Affairs who are in the second and third stages of education, both complete and partial: professors, assistants, and lecturers at the University of Criminology and Police, as well as students of the University of Criminology and Police, (if they have signed a contract with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia to be hired after successfully completing their studies and passing the state exam).
Former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia who have spent at least 10 years in full-time work at the Ministry of Internal Affairs can become IPA members, provided that employment was not terminated due to identified abuses and criminal, misdemeanor, disciplinary, or material responsibilities, i.e., damage to the reputation of the MIA.
Associate members can be police officers from other countries, if such an association does not exist in their country, by submitting a membership application. Extraordinary members can be widows, widowers, and children of a deceased regular member, by submitting an application for the continuation of the deceased family member’s membership.
The IPA organization in Serbia has its own parade uniforms, and Radar’s interlocutors testify that this fact is used as a sign of recognition, a hidden signal that it is an organization connected to power. Thus, there is a possibility that the signs of a police organization are found in places where, as is reasonably suspected, serious criminal acts have been committed, such as industrial production of cannabis or armed uprising.
Nebojsha Panteliq, president of IPA Serbia, did not respond to Radar’s question regarding the criteria for receiving the IPA emblem and claims that stickers for the front glass were found in the vehicles discovered in Banjska.
Panteliq is a senior officer in the Department of Internal Control of the MIA, and previously worked in the Department for Legality in the Police Administration of the City of Belgrade.
According to the traffic law, blue and red warning lights can be used by vehicles transporting protected persons, i.e., state officials, whose security is under the charge of the Security Unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs – JZO, as well as some military or firefighting units.
The commander of the JZO is Marko Krichak, a former employee of the BIA at the time when its head was Bratislav Gashiq. By the way, JZO vehicles were seen during the arrest of three Kosovo police officers at the administrative line in June 2023. Krichak is considered a trusted man of Zvonko Veselinoviq and is his hunting expedition buddy in Golia.
IPA signs used for smuggling
The activities of this unit receive a lot of publicity, so the regime’s media extensively reported that, led by the commander, it participated in removing rogue taxi drivers from Belgrade airport.
Minister Gashiq recently visited this unit where, in his honor, Kriçak (a civilian without police training) in the parade uniform of a police officer presented a report to his minister and former BIA chief in front of the car.
Source: Botasot.net
