TIRANA, Oct 21 /ATA/ Minister of Interior Bledi Çuçi presented on Thursday at the Committee on Legal Affairs, Public Administration and Human Rights the draft law “On the Police Oversight Agency.”
In his remarks at the meeting of the Committee, Çuçi said that, “this draft law aims to reform the service or agency after the adoption of this draft law as an intelligent agency to fight corruption and deter unlawful practices in the ranks of police, aligning it with other counterpart agencies of EU member states. ”
Çuçi also added that this draft law aims at transforming the service or Agency into a more democratic and institutional model, as part of the community of law enforcement and intelligent Agencies in the country, both in terms of mission and in terms of defining functional tasks, responsibilities, structure and staff. ”
This draft law, according to Çuçi, aims at strengthening the service or Agency with respect to the principles of respect for freedoms and human rights. Increasing the capacities of the service or the Agency for a pro-active approach to the corrupt phenomena among the service entities. ”
This draft law also aims at “preventing, detecting, documenting and conducting preliminary investigation of criminal and corrupt affairs in the service entities and improving the technological infrastructure of the service, in order to respond to the ever-increasing dynamics and demands,” Çuçi said.
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