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To date, Albania has not managed to create a police force, especially at the management level, that is not affected by political changes, as happens in EU countries such as Italy, Greece, etc., but also in regional countries such as Serbia. or even North Macedonia.
The appearance on the scene after the SPAK mega-operation against dangerous criminal groups in the country, or even cases of terror and violence that have occurred, such as the tragic event with the lawyer Sokol Mêngjesi, bring an increased alarm about the action of the state against criminals.
In these 30 years, the State Police in the country has been the biggest victim of the policy of militancy. Which is very easily seen on dinner television. Where former police chiefs accuse their colleagues of being connected to crime, while we had a scheme where for 8 years police officers wore uniforms and for another 8 years, attacked the police with weapons in violent street protests.
To date, Albania has not managed to create a police force, especially at the management level, that is not affected by political changes, as happens in EU countries such as Italy, Greece, etc., but also in regional countries such as Serbia. or even North Macedonia.
Everything broke when the challenge was great, with the fall of communism. Where the all-powerful police with a millimeter power in the territory became zero. With the theory of calling "people from civil life" to the stage. Where physical education teachers became chiefs of police stations or police directors, where mechanical engineers were appointed rapid intervention commanders, where math teachers became secret and anti-crime agents.
When Albania had a great fortune that many other countries in the region did not have, where it possessed a large amount of active, super-prepared military personnel, who could be quite normal in the new public order preservation officers. But no, these people, qualified and trained for war, were taken out on the streets to sell bananas, old raccoons, or emigration roads to prepare mortar and concrete.
Large European countries: Italy, France, Spain, but also others in the region such as Serbia for example, have regular gendarmerie troops, which are a permanent part of the law enforcement forces, alongside the state police.
The proposal for Albania to have a gendarmerie has been old for us, even from political actors. For example, Genc Pollo was the first, after the events of 1997, to bring it officially to the Albanian Parliament.
But what can a gendarmerie bring to Albania?
Very simply: A ready, standing army, sitting in barracks and having a distribution in the territory to assist the state police.
The Gendarmerie is of course not a force that can operate in urban areas, as experience has it all around. It has its barracks in territories where police stations are not close. For example in Sicily where Cosa Nostra has had a power in the territory, the carabinieri protect public order where the police cannot. The fight against organized crime is played by the police, the carabinieri deal with violence, terror, and crime in the areas.
Meanwhile, a gendarmerie force is always a ready force in emergency situations, where mobility and force imposes the authority of the state. Especially in the areas that are called organized crime enclaves. Where a gendarmerie barracks turns into the anti-crime headquarters par excellence.
In this case, the state police has the opportunity and convenience to carry out investigations, operations and high-level interventions.
But what will provide more security is the immobility of a military force to maintain public order. Which, created on a clear military basis, is not affected by political changes. And so it strengthens the authority of the state, where the general of the gendarmerie is not threatened by the physical education teacher who is brought by the minister as a police chief.
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