Special Police Units
Posebne jedinice policije
AbbreviationPJP
Agency overview
Formed1994 (1994)
Dissolved28 June 2001 (2001-06-28)
Superseding agencyGendarmery
Employees5,000 (1999)
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionSerbia
Governing bodyMinistry of Internal Affairs (Serbia)
Operational structure
HeadquartersBelgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Užice, Niš
Agency executive
  • Obrad Stevanović, Commander

The Special Police Units or Police Special Units (Serbian: Posebne jedinice policije, PJP) was a special police force unit of Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP).[1] It had several detachments and was part of the sector of the State Security Service.[2] It was disbanded on 28 June 2001 when it was replaced by the re-establishment of the Gendarmery.[3]

Between 1994 and 1996 it was commanded by Obrad Stevanović.[4] During the Kosovo War (1998–99), the force had an estimated 5,000[5][6] or 7,000 men.[6] The PJP detachments were based at Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Užice, Niš and Priština.[5] It is believed that it was commanded by Obrad Stevanović, now the head of police.[6] Its elite unit was the "Lightning" (Munje) unit, according to M. McAllester partly made up of "some of Yugoslavia's most dangerous criminals".[7] Among other special units active in the war was the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ), a separate part of the MUP.[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gow 2003, p. 86, HRW 2001, p. 330
  2. ↑ McAllester 2003, p. 29.
  3. ↑ Vreme 2009.
  4. ↑ Tromp 2016, p. 132.
  5. 1 2 Gow 2003, p. 86.
  6. 1 2 3 HRW 2001, p. 78.
  7. ↑ McAllester 2003, p. 30.
  8. ↑ Gow 2003, p. 86, HRW 2001, p. 78

Sources

  • Gow, James (2003). The Serbian Project and Its Adversaries: A Strategy of War Crimes. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. pp. 86–87. ISBN 978-1-85065-499-5.
  • McAllester, Matthew (2003). Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside Kosovo. NYU Press. pp. 29–30. ISBN 978-0-8147-5661-4.
  • Tromp, Nevenka (2016). Prosecuting Slobodan Milošević: The Unfinished Trial. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-33527-6.
  • Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo. Human Rights Watch. 2001. pp. 77–78, 330. ISBN 978-1-56432-264-7.
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