Interior ministry

Six entities will pool efforts in the fight against smuggling and control over the movement of high-risk goods and cargo, according to a decision adopted by the Bulgarian government on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Members of the police force with the status of authorised officers or uniformed authorised officers will be the only Interior Ministry employees eligible for reduced-age retirement in the future, as it will no longer apply to administrative staff, says Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Interior Affairs Nebojsa Stefanovic and caucus whip of Party of Democratic Action (SDA) of Sandzak- Party of Democratic Action (PDD) Sulejman Ugljanin conferred in the parliament building on Thursday concerning the security situation in south-west Serbia.

A mini-reshuffle of the cabinet is on the cards, a government official has indicated following a decision by authorities to revoke plans to put the Alternate Citizens? Protection Ministry under the auspices of the Justice Ministry.

Border police officers in Elhovo will be protesting on Wednesday on 12 pm members of the Syndicate of the Interior Ministry Employees will express their dissatisfaction with the policies of the Regional Directorate Border Police.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic met on Friday with Russian Ambassador Alexander Chepurin to discuss closer cooperation in the internal affairs sector, particularly concerning the fight against terrorism, organized crime and drug trafficking.

Nearly half of all security guards in Montenegro work in the grey - unofficial - economy, were trained using outdated procedures and are unsufficiently monitored, a new report says.

About 2,000 security guards work in Montenegro but most work without official permits, the Interior Ministry report, which BIRN has seen, says.

The identity of the five-year old boy found murdered and left in suitcase near Bulgaria's Pasarel has been revealed.

His name was Nikita Leontev and was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, but was living in the city of Perm. Investigators have established that the name of the boy's mother is Ana Leonteva, as announced by the Bulgarian National Radio.

BELGRADE - The Southeast European Law Enforcement Center (SELEC) Bi-annual Awards Committee awarded the Serbian Interior Ministry First and Second Prizes for conducting the most successful joint operations in the second half of 2014.

On the first day of the visit to the US, Rumyana Bachvarova, Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, and senior representatives of US law enforcement authorities signed an agreement in the sphere of border security.