Pristina's police

BELGRADE - Dejan Jankovic, deputy head of the so-called Kosovo Police, who was on Wednesday detained alongside three other members of Pristina's police force, has been placed in 48-hour custody for necessary checks concerning the security of the Republic of Serbia and establishment of facts, the Serbian Interior Ministry told Tanjug on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Interior confirmed to Tanjug on Thursday four members of the so-called Kosovo Police had been detained at a border crossing with Croatia on Wednesday and that one of them - a deputy director of Pristina's police - was being held by Serbian authorities.

The ministry said they had been detained for security checks at the Batrovci crossing.

BELGRADE - Commenting on the latest beating of a Kosovo-Metohija Serb by Pristina's police, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Monday beatings and arrests of Serbs were evidently "values" that were a "recommendation" for the so-called Kosovo's Council of Europe (CoE) admission.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday Pristina PM Albin Kurti's police had mounted synchronised raids on the offices of interim local authorities in Pristina, Pec, Gorazdevac and Istok earlier in the day and attacked all Serb enclaves in Metohija.

VRBAS - Obliterating the name Banjska, as well as the Rajska banja spa complex - in which Belgrade has invested considerably - is what Pristina would like the most, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Dusan Obrenovic, a young Serb from Kosovo-Metohija who was arrested by Pristina's police in late May, was on Monday released on bail after six months of incarceration and will stand trial as a free man, the head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic announced.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Pristina's police on Wednesday carried out searches on several locations in the north of Kosovo-Metohija in connection with the Banjska case.

In a statement to Tanjug, the regional deputy chief of the so-called Kosovo Police said no arrests had been made for the time being.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Special units of the so-called Kosovo Police raided the Clinical Hospital Centre in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday morning, the institution's director Zlatan Elek told Tanjug.

He said Pristina's police had searched the laundry room and some offices without the knowledge of the hospital management and also seized footage from security cameras.

BANJSKA - After four days, the road in Banjska, a village in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, was reopened to traffic on Wednesday and Pristina's special police allowed entry to the village, a Tanjug reporter on the ground said.

The so-called Kosovo Police said last night it had completed an operation of checking the area.

BRUSSELS - Commenting on Wednesday's arrest of three Kosovo-Metohija Serbs by Pristina's police, EU spokesperson Peter Stano said on Thursday the EU was following the situation in the north of Kosovo-Metohija very closely and would react if and when appropriate.