Tag: police
Macedonia 08.12.19 | 21:01

Off-duty police officer shot in the arm while trying to prevent a robbery in Skopje

An off duty police officer was shot and wounded while trying to prevent a robbery in the Cair district of Skopje. The incident happened this afternoon around 17h, when the officer, identified by his initials as J.J. witnessed the robbery attempt. He tried to stop the two robbers, but they fired at him,...
Macedonia 02.12.19 | 22:22

Police action to arrest people involved with the mafia attack at the Alexander Palace hotel

A major police raid is currently taking place in Skopje’s Karpos district, where the police is arresting participants in the mafia attack carried out in the Alexander Palace hotel two days ago. Reportedly, two people are detained and two more were questioned and those arrested were allegedly identified...
Macedonia 28.11.19 | 10:29

Police commander was pressuring a female officer to have sex with him

Saso Velkovski, commander of the Gazi Baba police district in Skopje, was pressuring a female officer to have sex with him, the Infomax news site reports. The female officer refused an approach from her commander in his office, and he angrily sent her off home, reminding her that he is a powerful man....
Macedonia 16.11.19 | 10:04

Independent police trade union to protest in front of government building

The independent police trade union called for a public rally today at 10h in front of the Vip Hotel with demands for pay raises, a new collective agreement at the MoI, better rights and better living conditions. The demands regarding the announced protest are: recognition of the union as a representative...
Macedonia 26.10.19 | 17:56

Striking farmers push through the police line and deliver their demands in front of the Government building

Despite a strong police presence meant to stop them, striking farmers were able to push through to the Government building. Angry at low prices and late subsidies, the farmers threw apples and grapes in front of the police line in a sign of protest. The fuel price is hiked by 80 percent and the fuel...
Macedonia 25.10.19 | 18:25

Court reduces the prison sentence of cop killer Almir Drpljanin

The court reduced the prison sentence handed to cop killer Almir Drpljanin, who killed one and badly injured two officers in a shoot out in 2008. Drpljanin was sentenced to life in prison, but will now be required to serve only 20 years. He fled the country after the murder and hid in Kosovo until 2015. Drpljanin...
Macedonia 25.10.19 | 18:20

Police begins search for Igor Spasov, the notorious killer of Martin Neskovski

A week late, the police started a search after Igor Spasov, the former police officer who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the brutal 2011 murder of 20 year old boy Martin Neskovski. Over the past year, Spasov was given preferred treatment by the court and the prison authorities, and was allowed...
World 03.10.19 | 16:53

French police employee kills four colleagues in the center of Paris

The person who killed four people at a police station in Paris attacking them with a knife was also a police officer, local media report. He has been shot dead during the attack. The incident happened in the Ile de la Cite, in the very center of Paris close to the Notre Dame, a day after officers were...
Macedonia 02.10.19 | 14:40

Protesting police officers block the boulevard in front of the Government building

Dozens of police union members blocked the Ilindenska boulevard in front of the Macedonian Government building today, to demand a salary hike and greater union rights. The protesters drove with their cars before the Government building, blocking the boulevard, after blocking crossroads across Skopje....
Macedonia 02.10.19 | 10:46

Police union strike will include roadblocks

Police unions in Macedonia are protesting across the country, demanding a 25 percent hike in the salaries and greater union rights in the prison and forestry police units. Protesting officers plan to block city streets. The Independent Union of the police forces cites increased cost of living as the...
Macedonia 30.09.19 | 21:55

Netpress: Police ranks decimated by recruiters offering well paid jobs across Europe

The Netpress news site, which specializes in reporting on crime and police actions, reports that police ranks are being decimated by recruiters offering well paid security jobs in Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom or Scandinavia. According to Netpress, about 1.000 of the 11.600 Interior Ministry employees...
Macedonia 23.09.19 | 15:02

Policeman detained over a 20 EUR bribe

A police officer assigned in the Debar region was detained after he took 20 EUR from a Dutch citizen. The Dutch man was driving between Mavrovo and Debar when he was stopped by the 50 year old police officer A.B., who claimed that he made a traffic violation and took 20 EUR in bribes. After the incident...
Macedonia 06.09.19 | 13:36

Skopje police seizes 13 motorcycles from reckless drivers

Following a series of traffic accidents involving motorcycles, Skopje police fined 40 drivers overnight and seized 13 of their vehicles. The law allows the police to seize motorcycles from drivers who operate them dangerously. One woman was left in critical condition when a motorcycle driver crashed...
Macedonia 29.08.19 | 10:28

Two children left alone dehydrated in a car, citizens break car window to rescue them

Two children were found Wednesday alone and dehydrated in an Alfa Romeo vehicle parked in a parking lot on Blvd. “Vidoe Smilevski Bato”. Citizens alerted, and called the police. Unofficially, one of the eyewitnesses at the event smashed the car window to get the minor children out of the...
Macedonia 01.08.19 | 19:04

Worried that Zaev will get booed in Krusevo, police warns citizens “not to disturb the public order”

The Interior Ministry warned participants at the 1903 Ilinden Uprising celebrations planned for tomorrow in Krusevo and across Macedonia, that they will be held accountable for any violation of the “public order”. Prime Minister Zoran Zaev insisted that he speaks at the central event in Krusevo,...
Macedonia 31.07.19 | 10:07

Two police officers were nearly lynched in Struga on Monday

Two police officers were nearly lynched by a mob in Struga on Monday afternoon. Local police has downplayed the incident, issuing just a vague press report, saying that three men aged 29 to 38 were arrested for obstructing police officials from carrying out their duties. Eyewitnesses say that the two...
Macedonia 28.07.19 | 12:35

Lider: Major SPO related police operation planned for Saturday evening was eventually called off

The Lider news site reports that a major police operation was being planned for Saturday evening, but was called off. According to the site, which cites sources within the police, the likely target was the Special Prosecutor’s Office. We were called up for an important operation, but when we showed...
Macedonia 22.07.19 | 12:22

Interior Ministry denies reports that it provided Boki 13 with a security detail as he was moving money around

The Kod investigative program reported on a claim from AVMU media regulator, which had several investigations into the work of Bojan Jovanovski – Boki 13’s 1TV station, based on earlier allegations of extortion. According to AVMU, Boki 13 received a police provided security detail, which...
Macedonia 04.07.19 | 13:08

Interior Ministry denies claim that it’s preparing to arrest opposition leader Mickoski

The Interior Ministry denied the claim by opposition leader Hristijan Mickoski that special police forces were deployed around his house in what could be preparation for his arrest. Mickoski said that, following the latest series of arrests of VMRO officials, he prepared his family about his possible...
Macedonia 02.07.19 | 15:57

VMRO warns that the police vetting process will be used to submit the Interior Ministry to the SDSM party

VMRO-DPMNE raised the issue of the announced vetting of police officers, which the opposition party said is turning into a mechanism to intimidate police officers and purge the service from all those who are not party loyalists. Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski, who has frequently used the police to...
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