The state between police and crime By Dalip GRECA The Albanian police are the most unprotected and the most criminalized of all government organizations, but it is also the most immoral and most failed police force known to the Albanian state. The statement seems paradoxical, but behind this picture of despair lies a bitter truth. For 10 years now we have been in this situation and the state police has been prostituted into a tool of the parties in power. The parties use it as they please, the policemen are filled with hatred for one another and have been turned into beings destined for showmanship and traps. To be clearer, the Albanian police entered the democratization process with records such as these: the Ministry of the Interior saw about 1,700 police officers go abroad from the police, and at the same time the Ministry of Public Order, which emerged from this criminalized police, saw about 7,000 police officers leave abroad from the Public Order Police. What remained was a police force of unknown origin, since it was not known where they had been recruited and with what professional training. After the removal from the police of qualified elements, and after the embargo on trust imposed following the crimes and the post-crime revival by the Gazideda clan, with the government of stability and the change at the head of the Ministry of Public Order, as well as the arrival of police officers with a career from the class of internment among the ranks of the force, the gap between the police and the government apparatus widened further. A repressive and operational apparatus was set up within the police with the mentality of counterintelligence practices. It is clear that with money, but still with funds, in the process of transformation in all reforms the police became swallowable. It was forgotten what the real mission of the police is: the protection of the citizen and the guarantee of public order security. In its place came the thesis of the “defense of constitutional order” from Berisha's policy, creating the party within the police with ferocity, and from its ideas he moved toward these absurd actions. The police of service was turned into a police force politically interested and allegedly depoliticized. Nevertheless, the fight against crime never reached its roots. If we analyze these 10 years of transition, it emerges that the entire police force has been frozen and lined up in a scheme of treatment and counter-treatment, meaning it was used as a means of pressure against the political opponents of the left and the right. A part of the right-wing police officers were placed in the important sectors of order and repression within the police. A special irony here in the last two years has been the doubling of “parallelism,” where the left-wing government pursued anti-revival activity with its own police, while part of the right-wing police, glorified as depoliticized, restrained provocative and destabilizing acts. The role of the split within the police between the left-wing police and the right-wing police becomes clear in the change of guard and in the deputy chief of the Public Order Police, as well as the Pogradec Police Commissariat, where after the reward for that period of “war” an experienced scheme was identified by the new leaders appointed late and with the support of the clan that wanted to overthrow the government. Differences within the police at all levels would not mean reform. The police had to be professionally formed on the meaningful foundations of discipline and police institutions in civilized countries. Justice with real experts in the police could resonate[?] any kind of degradation. Withdrawal has been applied in the selection of people without experience on the basis of old provocateurs and instructors of “order protection,” which explains that the arrival of the government of stability, before it fixed things, created a synchronized deficit in the police and justice systems with sharp political-administrative features. A deficit with orientation cannot rehabilitate[?] the police. In these two years there has been a paramilitarized police force, because it has been politicized and criminalized by the yesterday and the today. In the autopsy of the institution, what is now being faced and transformed. It is clear that police products are provided by reform, but the idea of police reforms is an instrument that has been captured, trained, and politically inept. In this sense, first the personnel must be freed from the politics of the sect of revanchists for the police.

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