The Special Police Units or Police Special Units (Serbian: Posebne jedinice policije, PJP) was a special police force unit of Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP).[1] It had several detachments and was part of the sector of the State Security Directorate.[2] It was disbanded on 28 June 2001 when it was replaced by the re-establishment of the Gendarmery.[3]
| Special Police Units Posebne jedinice policije | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | PJP |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1994 |
| Dissolved | 28 June 2001 |
| Superseding agency | Gendarmery |
| Employees | 5,000 (1999) |
| Jurisdictional structure | |
| Operations jurisdiction | Serbia |
| Governing body | Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia) |
| Operational structure | |
| Headquarters | Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Užice, Niš |
| Agency executive |
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Between 1994 and 1996 it was commanded by Obrad Stevanović.[4] During the Kosovo War (1998–99), the force had an estimated 5,000[5][6] or 7,000 men.[6] The PJP detachments were based at Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Užice, Niš and Priština.[5] It is believed that it was commanded by Obrad Stevanović, now the head of police.[6] Its elite unit was the "Lightning" (Munje) unit, according to M. McAllester partly made up of "some of Yugoslavia's most dangerous criminals".[7] Among other special units active in the war was the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ), a separate part of the MUP.[8]
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Sources edit
- Gow, James (2003). The Serbian Project and Its Adversaries: A Strategy of War Crimes. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. pp. 86–87. ISBN 978-1-85065-499-5.
- McAllester, Matthew (2003). Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside Kosovo. NYU Press. pp. 29–30. ISBN 978-0-8147-5661-4.
- Tromp, Nevenka (2016). Prosecuting Slobodan Milošević: The Unfinished Trial. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-33527-6.
- Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo. Human Rights Watch. 2001. pp. 77–78, 330. ISBN 978-1-56432-264-7.
External links edit
- "Uvežbani za svašta". Vreme (960). 28 May 2009.
- "PJP-Munje". Specijalne jedinice.