Amendments to the Law on police of the Republic of Serbia: Critical review of some new provisions

Abstract

This paper presents solutions contained in the most recent amendments to the Law on the Police of the Republic of Serbia, with a special focus on the more important ones. In the first part, we have pointed to environmental and other factors that were relevant to the legal regulation of the security sector in our country, especially in times of transition and past events. The central part of the paper is devoted to the novelties of the RS Law on Police and in it first offers general remarks regarding the amendment, then the change in the area of international cooperation and police missions, organizations, police and labor law solution (employment status, rights and duties of the police and other employees of the RS MI). This is followed by a digression regarding the special collective agreement for police officers and complementary bylaws, operational implementation and interpretation of the provisions of the Police Act and adopted novelties. The final part gives a recapitulation of the adopted amendments with an emphasis on the legal conduct of the police, respect and protection of human and minority rights, civil liberties and other universal values.

U radu su izložena rešenja u vezi sa poslednjim izmenama i dopunama Zakona o policiji Republike Srbije, sa posebnim osvrtom na važnije novele. U uvodnom delu, u funkciji teme, ukazano je na ambijentalne i ostale činioce koji su bili od značaja za normativno uređenje sektora bezbednosti kod nas, posebno u vreme tranzicije i minulih događaja. Centralni deo referata je posvećen novelama Zakona o policiji i u njemu se najpre iznose generalne napomene povodom izmena i dopuna, zatim promene u delu međunarodne saradnje i policijskih misija, organizacije policije i radno-pravnih rešenja (radni status, prava i obaveze pripadnika policije i drugih zaposlenih u MUP RS). U kontinuitetu sledi digresija u pogledu Posebnog kolektivnog ugovora za policijske službenike i komplementarnih podzakonskih akata, u funkciji primene i tumačenja odredaba Zakona o policiji i usvojenih novela. U završnom delu je data rekapitulacija usvojenih izmena i dopuna sa akcentom na zakonito postupanje policije, poštovanje i zaštitu ljudskih i manjinskih prava, građanskih sloboda i ostalih univerzalnih vrednosti.