Macedonian Police

Turkey, Macedonia co-operate to fight terrorism

The two countries agreed their security agencies will more effectively exchange information.

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Macedonia's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski speak to reporters in Skopje on December 23rd. [Tomislav Georgiev/SETimes]

The issue of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder was raised again this week when Macedonian police detained a 40-year-old veteran from the southern town of Kavadarci on Tuesday on suspicion of killing his wife's sister and both her parents in their family home.

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Macedonian police told BIRN on Friday that they were still investigating a press release published in the media - and whether it is linked with the October 28 attack on the government building in Skopje, when two projectiles blasted holes in the roof and walls.

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Macedonian police have discovered a record number of refugees from Syria trying to illegally cross the country on their way towards Western Europe in the past two weeks.

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Serbia, Macedonia police fighting crime in rural areas

A new community policing-based approach improves police access to citizens.

Police in Macedonia and Serbia are employing new strategies to reach rural areas to address local issues and cross-border crime, officials said.

Macedonian police were maintaining a heavy presence on Friday in the capital, Skopje, where rival demonstrations had been announced in the city.

Ethnic Macedonians had been due to gather in front of the government building while ethnic Albanians were to rally in the city's mainly Albanian municipality of Cair.

Murder of teen not ethnically motivated - Albanian party

SKOPJE -- The murder of a Macedonian teenager for which an Albanian has been arrested as a suspect was not ethnically motivated, the Albanian DUI party has said.

This party condemned the incident in the strongest terms, but also appealed that it not be placed "in the ethnic context."

Thirty-one-year-old Adnan Rexhepi from Kumanovo, northern Macedonia, died on Saturday while fighting with a rebel group against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Albanian-language media in Macedonia have reported.

He was reportedly killed in the Syrian province of Sham.

Macedonia's main opposition party has filed corruption charges against Police Minister Jankuloska on two criminal accounts of misuse of office and of tax evasion.

The Social Democrats, SDSM, say she illegally accepted cash donations for her party, VMRO DPMNE, in 2006.

Police focus on stopping illegal drugs in Macedonia, Serbia

Police employ a systematic approach to combat street drug dealing.

Police are moving against street-level drug dealers in the Balkans. [Tomislav Georgiev/SETimes]