Aleksandar Vucic, the Deputy Prime Minister, said that no pressures will be placed on police or the prosecution office dealing with corruption, following a tense Wednesday meeting with the police team in charge of investigating corruption.
The meeting was scheduled after the police team expressed dissatisfaction with the decision of the prosecution office for organised crime not to detain former minister Oliver Dulic on Tuesday.
The prosecution suspects that Dulic, former Minister for Environment and Spatial Planning, illegally issued permits for the mounting of optic cables on roads. Dulic was questioned for four hours on Tuesday, but was then released.
Miljko Radosavljevic, the prosecutor for organised crime, explained there was not enough evidence to detain Dulic.
After his release, media reports said about 100 police officers involved in corruption investigations had called for Radosavljevic to resign.
Sonja Stojanovic, from the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, a think tank, says rifts between police and prosecution have been growing for years, with each sides accusing the other of slack work.
?Police accuse the prosecution of wasting evidence they have gathered while the prosecution accuse the police on providing them with evidence that can easily be dismissed in court,? Stojanovic explained.
She believes that the police wanted to send a message to the public that they have done a thorough job in Dulic?s case.
?It was a form of pressure, as it was sent to the public, while they are supposed to address their dissatisfaction to their civilian superiors - the Prime Minister and Vucic,? Stojanovic noted.
Milorad Veljovic, the police director, following the meeting with police officers and Vucic, said that the police were not trying to interfere in prosecutorial work.
Vucic explained that after Dulic?s release, some police believed that their work had been underestimated.
Although officers had made some critical remarks, no one had demanded Radisavljevic's resignation, he said.
He added that the prosecution must remain independent in its work and that there could be no pressures either on the police or on the prosecution.
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