SARAJEVO, 13 Jan (Hina) - Over the last weekend, members of the International Police Task Force (IPTF) in Bosnia-Herzegovina have carried out, without prior announcement, inspections of 30 local police stations in both Bosnian
entities in order to see whether regulations on limited possession of weapons are being respected. The results of those inspections were satisfactory and only a smaller amount of forbidden weapons had been found and confiscated, U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko told a press conference in Sarajevo on Monday.
SARAJEVO, 13 Jan (Hina) - Over the last weekend, members of the
International Police Task Force (IPTF) in Bosnia-Herzegovina have
carried out, without prior announcement, inspections of 30 local
police stations in both Bosnian entities in order to see whether
regulations on limited possession of weapons are being respected.
The results of those inspections were satisfactory and only a
smaller amount of forbidden weapons had been found and confiscated,
U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko told a press conference in Sarajevo
on Monday. #L#
According to a regulation set by the IPTF commissioner in
Bosnia, Peter Fitzgerald, local police are allowed to carry
ordinary guns only and police stations are allowed to have a gun or
a machine-gun to every ten police officers.
Ivanko also confirmed reports on a new incident which happened
yesterday in the village of Jusici, northern Bosnia. A man of
Bosniac nationality suffered gunshot wounds in the incident but
attackers have not been found yet.
Upon their arrival in the village, IPTF officers met anxious
Bosniac residents. The wounded man was transported to a hospital in
Tuzla. His condition was described as serious but stable.
Jusici is one of the three Bosniac villages in the zone
separating Republika Srpska and the Federation of Bosnia-
Herzegovina. The residents of Jusici returned to the village three
months ago, after they had been expelled from their village at the
beginning of the war.
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