National security

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.

BELGRADE - The Military Security Agency (VBA) has provided the initial documents about the incident between the Gendarmerie and the military police in Belgrade in September last year and that is a step in the right direction, Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic has posted on his Twitter account.

BELGRADE - Internet, or, computer crime, is becoming an increasing threat to companies and the economy, and we need better cooperation and networking in the region to deal with it more efficiently, said participants in a regional conference dubbed Corporate Security and Cyber Crime, held in Belgrade.

Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE), through the Romanian Embassy in Rome has taken action in relation to an incident on Sunday morning that involved five cars registered in Romania being burned down in the streets in Italy's capital city.

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The Montenegrin parliament on Tuesday adopted a controversial new law on the National Security Agency, NSA, by which intelligence officers can access all databases in Montenegro only by showing official identification cards.

Police entered the administrative headquarters of Athens University on Friday morning and arrested 14 anti-establishment protesters, ending a 19-day sitin of the institution that had unsettled the government and fueled political tensions.

Local and international institutions, police and security agencies need to cooperate more if the battle against terrorism is to be won, Bosnia's Chief Prosecutor, Goran Salihovic, told a counter-terrorism workshop in Sarajevo this week.

The tools of cyberwar can be used for political aims as well, head of the Special Telecommunications Service (STS) Marcel Opris said Thursday, adding that such an episode occurred during the 2014 presidential campaign.

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An investigation has been opened into the former head of administrative and financial affairs at the General Directorate of State Opera and Ballet (DOB), after allegations that he was illegally monitoring personnel through a surveillance camera system installed on his computer. 

Two brothers who posed as tax officers on Tuesday in order to swindle 350 euros from an 80-year-old man in a village in Kilkis, northern Greece, were in hospital later in the day after a car chase by police culminated in them losing control of their vehicle and suffering broken limbs.