Law enforcement in Serbia

New boss cleans the Gendarmerie of Dikic's men

Goran Dragovic, chief of Serbian Counter-Terrorist unit, will be new commander of Serbian Gendarmery.

Dragovic will take the place of Milenko Bozovic, who will be reassigned to position of Border police Directorate.

Gendarmerie gets new commander - unofficial

BELGRADE -- B92 has unofficially learned that the new commander of the MUP Gendarmerie (Zandarmerija) will be Goran Dragovic.

Dragovic until now served as commander of MUP's Counter-Terrorist Unit (PTJ).

Three men accused of being part of a Yugoslav Army unit that killed 46 ethnic Albanians in an attack on the Kosovo village of Ljubenic in 1999 pleaded not guilty to war crimes.

BELGRADE - Police officials of Serbia, Austria and Switzerland underlined on Wednesday the need to strengthen mutual cooperation in the fight against crime in the region of Southeast Europe and throughout the continent.

BELGRADE - Members of 17 special police units from South-East European countries will perform a joint hostage rescue exercise in the base of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ) in Batajnica, Belgrade outskirts, on Friday.

Probe against Serbian general is only the first, prosecutor says

Forensic experts are hunting for evidence at a grave site in the Kosovo village of Rezalle, where 42 Albanians were allegedly killed by Serbian forces in April 1999.

A website has been launched to campaign for justice for the three Bytyqi brothers, who were killed by Serbian forces 15 years ago after going to fight for the Kosovo Liberation Army.

BELGRADE- Douglass Madden, the new director of the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) of the U.S. Department of Justice, met with the officials of the Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) on Monday and announced financial support to new projects aimed at education and training of members of the Serbian police.