TIRANA, Aug. 1 – The vetting process of the State Police, Guard of the Republic and Internal Affairs Service that was expected to begin in August will take at least one more month to start, sources from the Ministry of Interior have confirmed.
In addition to delays in selecting five members through an open call for the Technical Secretariat, which will be part of the re-evaluation bodies, the need to train these judges throughout several weeks and create the necessary infrastructure to maintain the process is added to the challenges the police vetting is facing.
The hearings that will re-evaluate police officials are going to be open to the public and are expected to take place in the Academy of Security.
The external re-evaluation commission, which will scan the first 300 high-rank police officials, consists of five High Inspectorate for Wealth Declaration inspectors, five Tirana University professors, as well as five members appointed through an open call.
However, none of the external re-evaluation commission members’ names is made so far public by the Ministry of Interior, although the deadline to do so has passed.
Sources from the Ministry of Interior say the police vetting will begin in September, and that the selection of the commission’s members has been done by a ministry representative, as well as representatives of the State’s Information Service, the People’s Advocate and the Commissioner for the Protection against Discrimination and the Protection from Personal Data.
Meanwhile, the country’s opposition Democratic Party has said the process is a joke for not giving the names of its members’ to the parliamentary commission established to oversee the process.
