SIPA

In December, 2011, the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) police officials registered 258 calls to the „Crime-Stoppers“ hotline out of which 90 were assessed as not serious.

In the aforementioned time period, citizens submitted 63 useful information on planned or committed criminal offences and their perpetrators, based on which the same number of reports was made.

Out of the total information received 17,46% were related to criminal offences of corruption and abuse of official and other duties, 9,52% illegal logging, 6,34% were war crimes.

Criminal offence Amount of information received Abuse of position and official duty and corruption 11 Illegal logging 6 War crimes 4

Out of the total number of useful information, 59 of them, along with the reports, were forwarded for further processing to competent police authorities in B&H, and 4 information were related to criminal offences from SIPA’s competence.

Within this reporting period, 76 pieces of feedback were received from the competent police authorities, based on which it was determined that the competent Prosecutor’s Offices received 5 reports on committed criminal offence and perpetrators, and one report was submitted to the Prosecutor’s Office for evaluation.

SIPA’s police officials gave 105 recommendations to the citizens who contacted them via the anonymous and free “Crime-Stoppers” telephone number - 080 020 505.