$ E SARAJEVO, 18 Aug (Hina) - Members of the International Police Task Force (IPTF) have gathered a large amount of evidence material during a search of the public security centre in Banja Luka and the material will be carefully
analysed so that reports on the participation of local police in human rights violations could be checked, U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo Alexander Ivanko told a press conference Monday.
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SARAJEVO, 18 Aug (Hina) - Members of the International Police Task
Force (IPTF) have gathered a large amount of evidence material
during a search of the public security centre in Banja Luka and the
material will be carefully analysed so that reports on the
participation of local police in human rights violations could be
checked, U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo Alexander Ivanko told a press
conference Monday. #L#
IPTF has gathered bagfuls of evidence material, including
various documents and audio tapes and it will take some time before
they are all analysed, Ivanko told reporters.
During the search of the Banja Luka police building, a certain
amount of unallowed weapons and ammunition was discovered, including
automatic pistols and hand grenades, which does not belong to
standard police equipment.
Stabilisation Force (SFOR) spokesman John Blakely said that
the action in which the public security building in Banja Luka was
searched had been requested by the Office of the High
Representative. However, NATO soldiers intervened also to prevent
possible conflicts between the police force which is loyal to
Biljana Plavsic and the one loyal to Pale authorities.
The Serb member of the Bosnian Presidency, Momcilo Krajisnik,
asked SFOR for permission to send a specialist police unit to Banja
Luka with the aim of taking control over the public security centre,
but his request was denied, Blakely said.
The police headquarters in Banja Luka was raided early
yesterday morning by a police unit led by Dragan Lukac, who is loyal
to Plavsic.
During a search, carried out during the day, evidence was
found confirming that all phone conversations of the Bosnian Serb
President Plavsic had been tapped from the public security building,
Lukac said.
Spokesman for Westendorp's office Simon Haselock said that
SFOR and IPTF had carried out their action in order to check the
authenticity of reports on intimidation of Constitutional Court
judges who were to establish the constitutionality of Plavsic's
decision to dissolve Parliament.
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