Prime Minister Edi Rama and Interior Minister Taulant Balla visited the home of the State Police inspector, Vionis Shehu, beneficiary of the loan program.

“I had checked out this apartment before I got the loan, but it was almost impossible to buy it at the market prices. I dreamed of one day buying it, but it was almost impossible without your support. The loan pushed me to buy my home,” Vionis said during the conversation.
Prime Minister Rama also touched on some of the benefits that State Police employees are entitled to. “We pondered it for a long time and now we created this voucher system. Vouchers will be provided to every family of police officers. So the vouchers will be mainly used by the women, they go to supermarkets that are connected to the Ministry of the Interior and buy staples at a discount. For those types of vouchers the discount is 10-15% according to the products.

Don’t forget one thing, that comparing a salary in one country to the corresponding one in another country is one thing, but what goes home is another. Let’s say there is no big pay difference between the Albanian police officer and the German one if the income taxes, the rent cost and the transport are subtracted,’ the Prime Minister said.

During the conversation with the police inspector’s family, the PM also touched on this year’s tourist boom as well as the contribution of State Police to this achievement. “We actually had three times the population living in Albania this summer, we recorded a tourism boom. The tourists were more than thrice the number of inhabitants in Albania, a very large number to be managed, however we have the potential for much more and step by step we will succeed, even with the help of the police who have set a new security standard to be honest, because to our surprise the surveys with these foreign tourists showed that they were impressed by the high level of security.
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