03/12/1998
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Zëri i Popullit

3 December 1998

After the latest reshuffle in the police, the director who goes around police stations

We want order, but not from thieves By Elion Bregu When you speak the words to 17 or 20 senior police chiefs pessimistic, report, lightly, we were not overwhelmed anymore in the involvement, outside but what for some? This chief must pay from our own pocket. But to whom and for what? Why do police chiefs, with salaries of around 200 thousand lek and with young families, buy expensive cars, talk in bars and at dinners? Are they police officers or merchants? And should there be a director who keeps his driver with him, in the state car, and even stops the state vehicle to buy fish, right before the eyes of hundreds of citizens? To establish real order and calm in Albania, but not from thieves. The police uproar, with all the pleasure it has for the relatives, kin and family of the directors or their deputies, of the chiefs of the police stations of Tirana through the corridors of the Ministry of Order, is one of their “successful” businesses. But do all these leaders calculate their salaries? On the other hand, citizens demand order. To establish order when they are stopped in the street and the police take their nothingness in the morning and afternoon, to grow up with psychopaths and rapists. So the police forces think of consolidating order with shouts? Again, but for whom? For the service of policemen who issue fines, for the sons of owners and children of former leaders and deputies of the Ministry, for others? No. They settled for crumbs. Let us demand accountability from the big fish. People are tired of promises of order, law and calm. These do not come from police thieves. [The text of the lower part is partly illegible in the image and some words may be missing.]

DO NOT REPEAT THE THIEVES IN THE POLICE

FIRE DESTROYS COCA COLA The warehouse burns. Heavy material damage. A fire has burned the offices of the electrical system TIRANA - Coca Cola in flames. It was 8:00 p.m. yesterday when a fire broke out in the new warehouse [?] of Coca Cola on Dibrës Street, and for a moment the entire interior was engulfed in flames. A considerable number of vehicles from Tirana’s fire brigade arrived immediately at the scene and began extinguishing the flames. Sources from the Ministry of Order report that the fire was caused in a plastic storage area on one of the floors where a large quantity of machines and syrup, combustible production material and cartridges were located. Firefighters and vehicles from Tirana were fully mobilized, as well as those from Kavajë. Page 2

PARLIAMENT MINISTER OF WORKS1

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