SFOR ENDS PALE POLICE INSPECTION WITH SEIZURE OF ILLEGAL ARMS

( Editorial: --> 4958 ) SARAJEVO, April 6 (Hina) - SFOR troops ended their weekend inspection operation of Bosnian Serb police forces in the Pale area by confiscating a large number of illegal weapons. On Monday SFOR Sarajevo spokesman Louis Garneau said that during the operation all special police force members were inspected and the process of identifying them would begin from this morning in order to confirm whether they had the necessary permission to perform police service duties. Upon inspecting the Famos factory in Pale where part of the police were housed, Italian SFOR troops discovered and confiscated 10 machine guns, 1500 bullets and 50 ammunition containers. Major Garneau said Stabilisation Force troops last weekend inspected nine locations in the Pale area, including the Panorama hotel which houses the offices of Bosnian Presidency member Momcilo Krajisnik and Bosnian Serb Parliament Speaker Dragan Kalinic. Those facilities are also secured by Bosnian Serb special police. The SFOR spokesman said the NATO-led forces would continue to supervise the conduct of the special police until it was totally restructured according to rules which applied to regular police forces in both of Bosnia's entities. Until then the special police would be treated as an integral part of the military forces which means they will be subjected to strong restrictions decided by the SFOR command. (Hina) mb/as 061516 MET apr 98