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Women Police Officers’ Network of South Eastern Europe
- research results -


  • Belgrade, 22-23 july 2009
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Research Objectives
  • Objective comperhension of current status and role of women police officers in the national police services of the countries of this region, as well as the perspective for their future cooperation.
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Purpose of the Research
  • providing the starting point for planing of future cooperation;
  • focusing on activities which have been found importanat and necessary by all (or majority) of members;
  • time, money, energy, etc. effifiency.


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Target Groups
  • Human resource management services, as well as Police Academies (PAs)/Police training centres (PTCs)
  • Police officers - Women
  • Police officers - Men
  • Chiefs
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Data supplied by:
  • Albania
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Montenegro
  • Macedonia
  • Republika Srpska
  • Serbia


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Analisys of Data
  • ALBANIA
  • Human resource management services and PAs/PTCs – supplied answers to
  •                                        2 questions (out of 40)
  • Police officers – Women                       - 32
  • Police officers – Men                             - 32
  • Chiefs                       -
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Analisys of Data
  • FEDERATION OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
  • Human resource management services and PAs/PTCs – supplied answers to
  •                                                         8 questions (out of 40)
  • Police officers – Women                                      - 77
  • Police officers – Men                                          - 162
  • Chiefs                           - 84
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Analisys of Data
  • MONTENEGRO
  • Human resource management services and PAs/PTCs – supplied answers to
  •                                                        33 questions (out of 40)
  • Police officers – Women                                       - 32
  • Police officers – Men                                             - 32
  • Chiefs                             -
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Analisys of Data
  • FYR of MACEDONIA
  • Human resource management services and PAs/PTCs – supplied answers to
  •                                                     ALL questions (out of 40)
  • Police officers – Women                                          -
  • Police officers – Men                                                -
  • Chiefs                             -
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Analisys of Data
  • REPUBLIKA SRPSKA
  • Human resource management services and PAs/PTCs – supplied answers to
  •                                                       NO questions (out of 40)
  • Police officers – Women                                        - 90
  • Police officers – Men                                              - 72
  • Chiefs                           - 32
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Analisys of Data
  • SERBIA
  • Human resource management services and PAs/PTCs – supplied answers to
  •                                                     ALL questions (out of 40)
  • Police officers – Women                                      - 519
  • Police officers – Men                                           - 519
  • Chiefs                        - 495
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Total  Sample
  • Albania           64
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina         323
  • Montenegro             -
  • FYR of Macedonia                -
  • Republika Srpska         194
  • Serbia                 1533
  • TOTAL:      2114
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Recruitment and Admission of Women into Police Service
  • Incomplete data concerning the strategic approach to admission of women into police service (Serbia and Macedonia)
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Recruitment and Admission of Women into Police Service
  •      Women on operative police posts and a greater number of women being admitted into police service (Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia)
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Recruitment and Admission of Women into Police Service
  •      Measures for encouraging women to enter the police service – no such measures exist, and they are not needed (Montenegro, Маcedonia and Serbia)
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Level of motivation of women to enter the police service
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Proportion of Women in the Police Service
  •   total     with police           in                                     authorities    uniforms


  • Montenegro   12,5%       10,0%             7,0%
  • Macedonia     14,8%       47,1%             6,1%
  • Serbia            20,19%      15,7%             7,1%
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Proportion of Women in the Management
  •     strategic     middle  operational


  • Montenegro      20          126        569
  • Macedonia   3,95%     0,70%      0,14%
  • Serbia           6,36%     7,59%    27,88%
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Proportion of Women in...
  • All Special Units (Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia)
  • How accessible specific services are to women - no limitations (Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia)


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Equal opportunity for employment in all services
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Questions Concerning Selection
  • Regulated by law and by-law regulations
  • The differences in criteria for men and women exist and are in most cases related to morphological and basic motoric status


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Education and Training
  • Education and Training are identical for men and women
    (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia)


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Professional Qualifications for Fulfilling the Requirements of the Work Post
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Human Rights and Gender Equality During Training
  • Exist as a part of Curriculum in all national police services covered by the questionnaire
    (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia)



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System of Monitoring,  Professional Development and Promotion of Personnel
  • Exists, and is in most cases regulated by law and by-law regulations
  • (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia)


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Accessibility of Specialized Training
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Opportunity to be Promoted
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Work Related Questions
  • Equipment and resources availability – same everywhere
  • Mixed patrols, etc.
  • (Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia)


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Normative Regulations
  • Maternity/paternity leave and related issues are regulated by General law
  • There are no particular organizational solutions for supporting family (e.g. flexible working hours)
  • (Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia)
  • Gender issues:
    Montenegro – regulated by law,
    Serbia – national strategy


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Successful Balancing of Professional and Personal Activities
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How the Work Is Valued
(salary range)
  • Identical – for the same work posts, education, working experience...


  • (Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia)


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Handling Harassment
  • No particular internal policy, general laws are applied


  • (Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia)


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Lack of recognition of professional competence
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Inappropriate jokes
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Verbal disparage of individual capabilities
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Sexual harassment
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Associations
  • Yes


  • (Macedonia – Police Association of Macedonia (PAM),
  • Serbia – International Police Association (IPA))


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WPON – areas of possible cooperation
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WPON – forms of possible cooperation
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Thank you for your
past and future cooperation