The office of international community's administrator in Bosnia welcomed Bosnian Serb-dominated entity's decision not to form the auxiliary police unit of some 1,000 strong, as they previously announced, the spokesperson Mario Brkic to N1, Tuesday.
“The Office of the High Representative (OHR) welcomes the Republika Srpska's decision not to continue with the establishment of the police auxiliary unit. When it comes to the RS’ announcement of the reorganisation of the police, the OHR would like to get a better insight into the plans for this before commenting on this matter,” Brkic said.
The spokesperson of the international community's office in charge of overseeing the civilian implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement which ended the 1992-195 war in Bosnia added that regardless of the fact that they gave up on the idea of forming the auxiliary unit, there is still the need to improve the cooperation between Bosnia's law enforcement institutions with the aim of resolving the issues evident across the country, like the migrant issue.
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The RS authorities called off their plan to form an auxiliary police unit and said the change they plan to introduce instead is renaming their support police unit into ‘gendarmery.’
The RS adopted amendments to the Law on Police at the end of March 2019 aimed at introducing an auxiliary police unit in this entity.
The unit would be composed of 1,000 youths who would be summoned only when necessary, the RS Interior Minister said then, adding that they would have the same competencies as active police officers engaged in police duties.
This prompted fierce reactions in Bosnia's other semi-autonomous entity, the Bosniak-Croat shared Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) who in turn announced requests for the formation of FBiH's auxiliary unit.
