Skopje, 14 August 2024 (MIA) – A working group of the Association of Local Self-Government Units (ZELS) has been drafting a law on municipal police in cooperation with the Interior Ministry, announced Orce Gjorgjievski, Mayor of the Skopje Municipality of Kisela Voda and ZELS President. 

Speaking to members of the media after Wednesday’s coordination meeting of the Skopje municipal mayors, Gjorgjievski said the public should be also informed about the bill in the coming period.

“The adoption of a municipal police law is a serious necessity in our country,” he stressed. 

According to Karposh Municipality Mayor Stevche Jakimovski, the existing problems the City of Skopje is facing won’t be solved unless a law on communal inspection is adopted.

“Communal inspectors should be authorized to ask for people’s IDs, to fine, to arrest, to request detention,” he said. 

Skopje municipal mayors at today’s coordination meeting decided to send a motion to the government and the environment ministry proposing that the public enterprises for communal hygiene and parks and greenery be stripped of their jurisdictions. 

Participants in today’s coordination meeting decided to request transfer of the jurisdictions to the municipalities.

“We ask the government to appoint a government representative and to launch a process of dissolving the two public enterprises and transferring the jurisdictions to the municipalities,” Gjorgjevski told reporters after the meeting.

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