Public safety

Eight firefighters with three vehicles rushed to the scene

Ljubljana – Police departments in Slovenia continue to struggle with staffing shortages dating back to austerity measures. The average age of a police officer rises by 4.5 months each year, while unions are warning that many, especially from the east of the country as the main source of the police’s workforce, are having to do extremely long commutes.

Ljubljana – Police officers acted unprofessionally and used disproportionate force in four separate instances at anti-government protests held throughout 2021, shows an Interior Ministry report on complaints against police work.

Forests and lands that were reduced to ashes as a result of the extreme wildfires that engulfed the southern province of Antalya and the southwestern province of Muğla in the summer of 2021 have been replanted in less than a year, daily Milliyet has reported.

At a moment of deep polarisation in Montenegro, authorities are being urged to address online extremism in the country's new counter-terrorism strategy.

Moreover, one person was injured and transported to the Military Medical Academy (VMA).
38 firefighters with 10 vehicles took part in extinguishing the fire in the area of the Infectious Diseases Clinic, and the firefighting team was on duty, because it was becoming possible for the fire to reappear. It is unknown at this time what caused the fire.

Ljubljana – A firefighters’ trade union is critical of the government-proposed changes to the fire service act, as it says it was not involved in the drafting of the amendments. Some of the proposals that had already been coordinated with the competent ministry in the past have been dropped from the latest version, the union noted.

A fire broke out in a residential building in one of the big districts of Blagoevgrad, and the victims of the fiery hell are 3 according to unconfirmed reports.

The fire was extinguished late in the evening, but there is a lot of water in the building.

Koper – Primorske Novice says in Monday’s commentary that the Slovenian police have never enjoyed the level of autonomy enjoyed by police forces in developed countries, adding that the morale in the force has never been so low and the system never so broken.

A Turkish expert has advised authorities to sell all the trees burned in last month's wildfires that devastated forests in 53 provinces out of all 81 late July and use the money collected in the fight against future forest fires.

According to data from the General Directorate of Forestry, some 133,000 hectares of land have been burnt.