THERE WILL BE 10,500 POLICEMEN IN FEDERATION'S CANTONS-LEUTAR

MOSTAR, Feb 9 (Hina) - A deputy defence minister of the Croat- Moslem Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Jozo Leutar, on Sunday announced that 10,500 policemen would be deployed in all the ten cantons of the Bosnian Federation. Leutar said in an interview with the Mostar weekly 'Horizont', that a new uniform for policemen was being prepared. He added that the uniform would be "identical in a design with and have a similar colour of uniforms of western countries, including the Republic of Croatia." He explained that federal police cars would be white with a line in the colour of the uniform and a sign 'POLICIJA' (police). Commenting on the relationship between the bodies of the authority of the Bosnian Federation and canton's police, Leutar said that the Federation's bodies had no power over canton's police. "There is no federal police in the cantons, but there are cantonal police in the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina," said the Leutar citing Federation Constitution Article 4 which said that cantons had all power which was not explicitly entrusted to the federal authority. Cantons were particularly responsible for establishing and controlling police forces that would have the same uniforms with the canton insignia, according to this Article. (hina) mš 091901 MET feb 97