POLICE-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF FIELD OPERATIONS
SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE
Traffic safety
The Mission supported a working visit of two senior traffic
police officials to the Hungarian National Police, Traffic Safety
and Security Department in Budapest and the Highway Police
in Szeged from 30 May to 1 June. The visit aimed at enhancing
the capacities of the Montenegrin traffic police in managing
surveillance cameras that will be placed at 72 locations on
Montenegrin roads. This system will be networked with
border crossings to ensure that traffic offenders will not be able
to leave Montenegro without paying a fine. The officials also
had the opportunity to see how the automated radar systems
and Speed Recording Cameras placed on the motorway work.
They learned about the EU Traffic Regulations on Highway
Security and Control in place on the Hungarian Highway
M5, which is connected to a border crossing with Serbia that
serves as a point of entry into the Schengen Area.
Small arms and light weapons
On 9 July, the Mission supported the MoI in marking
the ‘Small Arms Destruction Day’, which also served as a
reminder of the threats posed by excess, poorly secured and
illegal SALW. The MoI organized the public destruction of
1,140 pieces of SALW and 214 SALW parts in the furnaces
of the Ferrous Metallurgy Institute in Nikšić. Most of the
SALW destroyed on this occasion came from the “Respect
Life – Return Weapons” SALW Public Awareness and Illicit
Weapons Collection Campaign that the Mission carried
out together with the MoI, UNDP and the NGO ‘Centre for
Democratic Transition’ between June 2015 and March 20161.
The event was supported by the European Union and the
UNDP South Eastern Europe Clearinghouse for the Control
of Small Arms and Light Weapons as a part of a regional
effort that included other countries in the Western Balkans.
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Ref. Activity Report No. 125 of the OSCE Mission to Montenegro (6 -19 June 2016)
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