SIPA

In October 2013, the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) police officials registered 338 calls to the Crime-Stoppers hotline, out of which 116 were assessed as not serious.

In this period, citizens submitted 84 useful information on planned or committed criminal offences and their perpetrators, based on which the same number of reports was made.

The majority of information was related to the criminal offences of illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs (13) abuse of office or authority (13) and other criminal offences (20).

Out of the total number of useful information, 84 of them, along with the reports, were forwarded for further processing to competent police authorities in BH and SIPA acted upon four information.

Within this reporting period, 98 pieces of feedback were received from the competent police authorities related to the information previously submitted via the Crime-Stoppers. Based on these information, it was determined that the competent Prosecutor’s Offices received three reports on a committed criminal offence and perpetrators, and seven reports were submitted for evaluation.

In addition, SIPA’s police officials gave 138 recommendations to the citizens who contacted them via the anonymous and free Crime-Stoppers telephone number - 080 020 505.