IFOR WANTS LOCAL SERB POLICE DISMISSED

SARAJEVO, Sept 19 (Hina) - IFOR Commander Joseph Lopez on Thursday wrote to the President of the Serb entity, Biljana Plavsic, insisting on the dismissal of the Prijedor police superintendent Drljaca by Friday at noon at the latest. #L# Lopez also demanded that local Prijedor police deliver all the automatic weapons and rifles they had used to threaten IFOR troops on Monday. "If our demand is not met, IFOR will do everything to remove the threat to the safety of its troops," Lopez's spokesman Mark van Dyke told reporters. "After the election, the newly-electd officials will have make it possible for people to live in peace and stability. The police must behave in accordance with international rules and not act like Drljaca and his ilk - like highway robbers and criminals," Lopez wrote. The letter stresses superintendent Drljaca's ultimate responsibility for Monday's incident, which involved threats against and obstruction of IFOR personnel on duty in the Prijedor area. International police commissioner Peter Fitzgerald has also called for Drljaca's dismissal, according to UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko. "This man heads every black list established by every single human rights organisation. What's enough is enough - he must be pensioned off at once," Ivanko told a Sarajevo news conference. (hina) as 191420 MET sep 96