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The OSCE and the Creation of Multi-Ethnic Police Forces in the Balkans

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... Thus, police reform plays a crucial role in reestablishing confidence among the citizens. As Stodiek points out gaining the confidence of the public cannot succeed without success in fighting crime (Stodiek, 2006). ...
... These issues have to be tackled early on in the reform process, often however, with limited man-power, lack of infrastructure and meagre financial resources. In a survey among police officers, OSCE police instructors and UN police in Kosovo identified low salaries as a factor that had a negative impact on the morale of local police as the biggest obstacle (Stodiek, 2006). 6 ...
... In order for the reform to have an impact the donor country is dependent upon serious commitment to the intended measures by both the host government as well as the local police itself (DFID, 2002). Furthermore, post-conflict environments usually demand major police reforms which cannot be implemented within one or two years (Stodiek, 2006). Hartz estimates that a typical police reform project would take approximately five years, not precluding ongoing organizational reform (2000). ...
... When it was lost, its parliament and government being abolished, a process of Serbianization began. Institutions now only employed Serbs-particularly the police, who became a major source of discrimination against Kosovo Albanians (Clark, 2000;Stodiek, 2006). Furthermore, Serbo-Croat became the sole official language. ...
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... Face au vide sécuritaire créé par le départ des forces serbes, non comblé par un nombre suffisant de policiers internationaux 36 , la direction de la Minuk décida que les policiers locaux devaient être envoyés au plus vite sur le terrain, d'où un temps de formation à l'école de police excessivement court : 8 semaines. Or cette option d'une montée en puissance rapide du SPK est entrée en contradiction avec le principe d'une formation approfondie qui, par la suite, orienterait au quotidien la pratique professionnelle d'agents de l'État n'ayant jusqu'alors connu que le système policier socialiste (Stodiek, 2006). L'enseignement à l'Académie de police a certes joué un rôle important dans l'inculcation de valeurs et de méthodes, d'autant que les formateurs sous l'autorité de l'OSCE 37 étaient les premiers à encadrer les policiers kosovars et à pouvoir ainsi influencer leurs représentations et leur conception du métier. ...
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... Face au vide sécuritaire créé par le départ des forces serbes, non comblé par un nombre suffisant de policiers internationaux 36 , la direction de la Minuk décida que les policiers locaux devaient être envoyés au plus vite sur le terrain, d'où un temps de formation à l'école de police excessivement court : 8 semaines. Or cette option d'une montée en puissance rapide du SPK est entrée en contradiction avec le principe d'une formation approfondie qui, par la suite, orienterait au quotidien la pratique professionnelle d'agents de l'État n'ayant jusqu'alors connu que le système policier socialiste (Stodiek, 2006). L'enseignement à l'Académie de police a certes joué un rôle important dans l'inculcation de valeurs et de méthodes, d'autant que les formateurs sous l'autorité de l'OSCE 37 étaient les premiers à encadrer les policiers kosovars et à pouvoir ainsi influencer leurs représentations et leur conception du métier. ...
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