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Security expert Arjan Hoxha said that most current leaders in the State Police are not elected based on merit and performance, but on political grounds and connections to crime, leading to a deep discouragement of officers in the field and undermining the fight against organized crime.
According to him, the process of selecting leaders completely ignores career, professional skills and measurable results. On the contrary, leadership positions are awarded as a reward for political services or as a result of connections with interest groups, including criminal ones. Many of these leaders, as mentioned, have been caught wiretapping or have ended up behind bars, confirming the problematic nature of their appointments.
The most serious consequences of this situation are suffered by the ordinary police officer. The officer in the field is untrained, underpaid and under double pressure: political and from criminal groups. When a police officer sees that his superior is giving him a pass or collaborating with the “strongman” of the area, he loses all motivation to take risks and enforce the law. This situation leads to a paralysis of the functions of the police.
"We have seen who they are, how those police leaders have been appointed. None of them can be said to have been appointed because they had one, two, three, four, five indicators of their work, that they have performed, are good specialists, let's say in the field of crime, have prevented so many criminal offenses, have discovered so many criminal offenses, have faced, have done one, two, three, four and for this reason they have also taken those, what are the theories, which are mandatory to take the exam at the Police Academy, or at the Police Training Academy as it is called today, and have a career, let's say within the ranks of the State Police. None of them, unfortunately, or in very rare cases, here the former police chief Gledis Nanon is excluded.
I have said and I say, among all the directors who have been appointed since the Socialist Party came to power and today, he is the one who was truly professional, deserved to be there. Not that I say it, the indicators and everything else say it. Most of the others, or almost all of them, have taken leadership positions within the State Police, which are undeserved. And for one, for other political, criminal reasons, part of groups and so on. Most have been exposed in wiretapping, some are behind bars and so on. So it is not necessary to quote them because everyone knows them now, they have become world famous.
And what happens to the police officer in the grassroots role? With the one who has the duty, with the one who contacts the first in cases, but also in prevention, but also in cases of criminal offenses, with the one who has the duty to communicate every day with the citizen. First of all, the job is untrained, secondly, it is unpaid, thirdly, there is political pressure from groups and organized crime and when he sees that his leader opens his arm once to that strongman of the area, the neighborhood, the city, the capital and so on. So what do we expect from the police officers in the grassroots role?
I assure you that, according to the information I have, the Durrës Eagles have not been out on normal patrol for two months, or they only go out for show. Like them, in other cases. Why? Just to give ground to these cases. And if we don't go into details, if we don't face these truths, if the police officers see why in 2007 these same police officers were with minor exceptions. Why are they standing up to organized crime? They were worse paid, I assure you. Maybe even less trained than today. Maybe then organized crime had also taken over, because we were coming from 97-98, which absolutely had more weapons, had more opportunities and it was more, confronting them was a little more difficult than today, there was a lack, perhaps a pronounced lack of the logistical base that the police have today. You didn't have a drone, you didn't have the possibility of wiretapping, you didn't have any institution like SPAK today, which was ultimately voted for by all politicians, to mainly fight organized crime.
And why were there capital punishments then, there was almost no organized crime, not only in Albanian reports, but in international reports that went towards minimizing and annihilating crime groups, groups, we are saying, not that there was no organized crime, but these groups that today we have structured criminal groups, why not in some cases they are turning into such organizations, which operate not only in Albania, but also in the countries of the European Union and beyond ," he told "Syri TV".
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