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What exactly is the police in Albania protecting today \u2014 public order or organized crime?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s say it plainly: police officers are repeatedly being caught as part of criminal gangs. The midday assassination today at the roundabout of Tirana\u2019s airport \u2014 where Gilmando Dani, one of the country\u2019s most notorious criminals, was killed \u2014 is a deafening alarm bell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His driver, who was injured, is Mu\u00e7i Sheqeri (Shaljani). He turns out to be an agent of the AMP, the Police Oversight Agency \u2014 the very structure meant to monitor police officers to ensure they do not break the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But as today\u2019s assassination shows, instead of carrying out his state duty, he was behind the wheel of a car driven by a dangerous criminal, Gilmando Dani, Emiljano Shullazi\u2019s right-hand man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This fact alone destroys public trust in the very officers who are supposed to protect citizens. When a police officer signals a citizen to stop, how can that citizen know whether the person in uniform serves the law \u2014 or a criminal gang? There have been many cases where police officers, while on duty, enforce petty violations against citizens, and after their 8-hour shift, place themselves at the service of organized crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But as the saying goes, the fish rots from the head. At the top of the police stands Ilir Proda \u2014 a senior official whose phone has been seized by SPAK, as he is suspected of involvement in criminal events and leaking information to a criminal organization. The opposition accuses him of serving the Troplini (Pojani) clan of Durr\u00ebs and Suel \u00c7ela. If the director himself is suspected of ties to gangs, what can citizens expect from the rest of the force?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since Ilir Proda took over the State Police, professional officers who are not part of criminal \u201cstructures\u201d have been removed or sidelined from key positions. Prevention of major events is at a critical low \u2014 worse than ever. Drug trafficking and money laundering, as reported by international media such as Follow the Money<\/em>, are reaching terrifying levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But today\u2019s incident is no longer a media accusation. It is a fact. After this, Ilir Proda may continue sitting in his office \u2014 but citizens can no longer trust him or the police he leads. And with each passing day, they will increasingly wonder whether the police they fund through their taxes serve them \u2014 or organized crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What exactly is the police in Albania protecting today \u2014 public order or organized crime? Let\u2019s say it plainly: police officers are repeatedly being caught as part of criminal gangs. The midday assassination today at the roundabout of Tirana\u2019s airport \u2014 where Gilmando Dani, one of the country\u2019s most notorious criminals, was killed \u2014 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,88],"tags":[51,42,43,45,59],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aktualitet","category-kryesore","tag-albania","tag-crime","tag-gilmando-dani","tag-ilir-proda","tag-shullazi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazetaalbania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}