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The EUPM and the OHR are satisfied with the results so far of the ongoing police restructuring road show. The public meetings have proven to be successful in explaining the benefits of police reform to the public of BiH and have seen good participation and lively discussions and debates.

The Office of the High Representative today launched a new webpage that provides comprehensive information on the police restructuring process. The webpage brings together all the core documents related to the work of the Police Restructuring Commission, including the Commission’s conclusions and recommendations, and reviews the options open to BiH [...]

Politicians in this country almost all agree that Bosnia and Herzegovina belongs in the European Union. Every one of the main parties has publicly committed itself to the process of European integration. This involves a series of clear steps. Many of these steps have already been taken. Among the most pressing and important step that must still be [...]

The European Union Police Mission (EUPM) and the Office of the High Representative (OHR) will continue a series of public meetings being held throughout BiH on police restructuring. This weeks events will be held in Bihac, Prijedor and Prnjavor. The purpose of these meetings is to present the Police Restructuring Commission's (PRC) proposal to citi [...]

The Police Restructuring Commission (PRC) report that I submitted to the High Representative and Prime Minister Terzic will mean important improvements for BiH’s citizens. Five significant advantages come to mind immediately.
First, the restructuring will make it much harder for criminals to operate. Right now, your police are at a disadvant [...]

The EUPM public information campaign which was launched by the EUPM Commissioner, Kevin Carty, on the 15th of February aims to inform the public of what is involved in the process of a single structure of policing, as well as what is not involved.
Commencing tomorrow, 11 March, EUPM will widen its campaign by the first of several public deb [...]

Today the EUPM Press and Public Information Department is launching its new EUPM Web Site. The new site is completely different from the original site. It has a new format, new style of presenting news and articles about the EUPM. Part of the aim of the new Web Site is to inform the public more clearly on police restructuring. Visitors of the web [...]

Brussels is following the BiH Police restructuring process very closely -- not just as a box that must be ticked before BiH can move on to the next state of association, but because crime on the streets of Banja Luka, Sarajevo or Mostar directly impacts crime on the streets of our capitals. While BiH’s balance of trade in general may be negative, w [...]

Today in Mostar, European Union Police Mission (EUPM) Commissioner Kevin Carty met with the representatives of the police unions of the Federation of BiH, Republika Srpska, Central Bosnia, Livno and Brcko District. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the police restructuring proposal recently prepared by Wilfried Marten’s Police Restructuring [...]

I will make three statements on the Police Reform Commission and the choice of maps and then we’ll take the questions.

I want to begin by first of all by expressing my welcome to you and my thanks to Prime Minister Martens and members of the PRC for their very hard work. They produced a bold and far-reaching reform of the current pol [...]