SIPA

In June 2011, the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) police officials received 400 calls to the Crime-Stoppers hotline, out of which 133 were assessed as not serious.

In the aforementioned time period, citizens submitted 81 useful information on committed or planned criminal offences and their perpetrators, based on which the same number of reports was made.

The majority of information was related to criminal offences of corruption and criminal offences of abuse of official and other responsible duties (12), illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs (10), and vehicle related crime (5).

Out of the total number of useful information, 63 of them, along with the reports, were forwarded for further processing to other competent police authorities in B&H, and 18 information were related to criminal offences from SIPA's competence.

Within the reporting period, 43 pieces of feedback were received from competent police authorities, based on which it was determined that two reports on committed criminal offences and perpetrators were submitted to competent Prosecutor's Offices, and two reports were submitted to Prosecutor's Offices for assessment.

SIPA's police officials gave 186 recommendations to the citizens who called 080 020 505 – Crime-Stoppers hotline.