PREPARATIONS UNDER WAY FOR SET-UP OF BRCKO MULTIETHNIC POLICE

( Editorial: --> 5582 ) BRCKO, Dec 3 (Hina) - Under the decree of Robert William Ferrando, the international supervisor of Brcko, the multiethnic police should be established in this Serb-controlled northeastern Bosnian town as of 1 January 1998. The police will consist of 120 Serbs, 90 Moslems (Bosniaks) and 20 Croats. The Brcko police chief, Teodor Gavric, and his deputies Pero Androsevic and Mirsad Haseljic are to draft a plan for the work and the deployment for 230 policemen, until 13 December. In connection with this, Teodor Gavric said that Pero Androsevic, representing the Croat people, and Mirsad Haseljic, representing the Moslem people, had already arrived in Brcko and were working in their offices. Besides, there are two officers of the IPTF (International Police Task Force), whose job is to mediate in the decision-making process. Gavric added that sessions were held every day in the Brcko police station at which he agreed with his deputies on the staff and organisation of the multiethnic police. (hina) jn mš 031510 MET dec 97