"Self-judgment alla Albaniançe", the security expert for Politiko: The connection between politics and crime must be separated

As soon as you open the portals or the television, what kills your eyes and ears the most are the crimes. Crime in the family, the son kills the father, the daughter-in-law is raped by the husband and father-in-law, the brother beats the sister, fights with knives, gunshot wounds", these are the most common events that have gripped our country.

Losing your life for a look, for a word or sometimes and for the sad fact that you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Where is the role of the police in the middle of this deadly, chaotic, scandalous situation? Where are the protective orders? Feeling confident that the police will protect us from violence?

To talk about this topic, the security expert, Fatjon Softa, gave his comment to the journalist Neta Fero for the Politiko.al portal.

Expert Softa stated that the State Police must build the appropriate mechanisms to prevent various events.

While listing several options for the proper functioning of the police, the expert said that politics should be separated from crime.

He stated that a form of cleansing the accused in the police and justice should be found.

Excerpt from the interview:

Journalist Neta Fero: Assassinations, murders and injuries without end, during these days in our country. Does the police have the right tools to supervise or keep crime under control?

Expert Fatjon Softa: The State Police must build appropriate mechanisms to prevent various events. Management and work methodology must change.

In addition to the training and qualification work of the structures, equipment with modern technology is needed, increasing the detection force and police intelligence.

Journalist Neta Fero: What innovation does the justice system need? What about in terms of police vehicles?

Expert Fatjon Softa: Mechanisms must be created to increase trust in the public, in the victims of violence who have been affected. Information to the public. Creating a network of paid "spies".

The establishment of mobile offices outside police stations in the most trafficked areas for citizens.

Drafting of a new strategy for the control and supervision of the territory.

Coordinating agency between security institutions as well as tightening of the criminal code for some crime figures.

Journalist Neta Fero: In your view, does the Albanian citizen have faith in justice?

Expert Fatjon Softa: Assassinations, murders, violence inside and outside the family, have shaken society and lowered its confidence. Structures have incrimination.

We must find a way to clean up the ranks of the accused in the police and the law. The crime is spread across the territory. It is organized and coexists with politics. The connection between politics and crime must be separated.

Journalist Neta Fero: What about the mania of Albanians to decide their own justice?

Expert Fatjon Softa: Loss of faith in justice increases the possibility of self-judgment. The case of changing the charge from the Prosecutor's Office to the Court for the Murder in Pogradec was flagrant. Family conflicts are not resolved in courts but in violence and murder.

A loss of social balance. The government does not use its mechanisms and they remain in the framework of statements.

The dire situation also hides the civil society that remains in some formal protests and without public support.