Law urgently withdrawn on Vučić's request. "We've been informed about possible riots"

"You will have to look for some other reason for shedding blood on the streets of Belgrade", Vulin said.
It should be reiterated that some opposition parties criticized the draft of that law, believing that it violates human rights, enables state control over citizens and encroaches on their privacy. Also, some parties believed that the law gives the Minister of Police the opportunity to form a paramilitary unit.
Today's statement of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Aleksandar Vulin, forwarded to the media, states, among other things, that the President of Serbia asked him to withdraw the draft law.

What the "disputed" draft law says?

Processing of biometric data of the detected character, ban on publishing data on the identity of the official, additional powers of the Minister, code instead of surname on the uniform... are just a part of the novelty proposed by the Ministry of Interior in the Draft Law on Internal Affairs.
The last day of the public debate on the text of the Draft Law in Internal Affairs was on September 18, the 20th day after this proposal was published. The law, which, if it had been adopted, would have replaced the previous Law on Police, was written on 117 pages, while the novelties envisaged by it raised a lot of dust in the public.
The most disputed proposal is the one that provided for video and audio recording of citizens, and which includes the processing of biometric data of the detected character.
According to Bojan Elek from the Belgrade Center for Security Policy, the authorization of biometric data processing includes cameras that have automatic face recognition.
"It potentially means that someone in the police can enter based on the name and see where someone is. It is a model...

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