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In 2006, the Kosovo Police Service School was transformed into the Kosovo Center for Public Security, Education and Development, with a broader mandate to provide public-security education - including the customs service, border police, fire service, and prison service. It is now an executive agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Kosovo Police is the national policing law enforcement agency of Kosovo.It was established in 1999 and took its current form with the 2008 police law. It consists of five departments and eight regional directorates and is represented at the political level by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Administration of the Republic of Kosovo.
Initially law and order in Kosovo was maintained by a United Nations International Police Force. On 6 September 1999, UNMIK established a police school in Vushtrri to train officers for the new Kosovo Police Service which would gradually take over policing duties as it expanded in size and developed further capabilities.
The core objectives as mandated were to establish a police school to train officers for a new Kosovo Police Service, to train members of the judiciary, to organise and monitor elections, to support the development civil society, non-governmental organisations and political parties, to establish an Ombudsman institution and to monitor and ...
Education in Kosovo is carried out in public and private institutions. Starting from 1999, education in Kosovo was subject to reforms at all levels: from preschool education up to university level. These reforms aimed at adjusting the education in Kosovo according to European and global contemporary standards. As a first step of this new system ...
Schools and victims. In March 1990, several months after the unilateral move by the Serbian government to segregate schools throughout Kosovo, a mysterious illness - massive poisoning of mostly school children appeared. The first victims to suffer this disease were students, who seasoned the most terrific nightmare of their lives.
Crime in Kosovo. Police vehicle in the streets of Pristina. Kosovo within communist Yugoslavia had the lowest rate of crime in the whole country. [1] Following the Kosovo War (1999), the region had become a significant center of organized crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking and organ theft.
UNMIK oversaw the establishment of a professional, multi-ethnic Kosovo Police Service. In March 2004, Kosovo experienced its worst inter-ethnic violence since the Kosovo War. The unrest in 2004 was sparked by a series of minor events that soon cascaded into large-scale riots. Kosovo Albanians mobs burned hundreds of Serbian houses, Serbian ...