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Officers of the Special Police Department (SPO), on the order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, arrested the head of uniformed Podgorica police, Darko Knežević, and the commander of the Podgorica Security Department, Dalibor Živković. After the hearing, Knežević and Živković were detained for up to 72 hours, the Pobjeda portal was informed by SDT.
As state prosecutor and SDT spokesman Vukas Radonjić told Pobjeda portal, Knežević and Živković were arrested on suspicion of having committed the criminal offense of abuse of office.
The Special Police Department, by order of the Special State Prosecutor's Office, deprived police officer D.K. and D.Ž, due to the grounds of suspicion that they had committed the criminal offense of abuse of official position and were brought to the state prosecutor for questioning as suspects - Radonjić told us.
In March, Knežević made a statement in his capacity as a citizen
Darko Knežević was interrogated in mid-March of this year as part of the Special State Prosecutor's Office action against an officer of the Police Directorate, and because of his alleged connection with a criminal clan.
At the time, the Police Administration said that he was not taken into custody, but was interrogated in the SDT in his capacity as a citizen.
The officer of the Podgorica Security Department, Darko Knežević, made a statement as a citizen to the special state prosecutor and after that he returned to his regular duties - the police said at the time.
Živković injured in the unblocking of the roundabout in 2019.
The name of Dalibor Živković came into the public spotlight when he was injured in 2019 in an attempt to unblock a roundabout near Podgorica airport by demonstrators who opposed the then-adopted Law on Freedom of Religion. In addition to Živković, three other police officers were slightly injured in that incident.
Previously, a group of citizens blocked the road leading from Podgorica to the airport and the southern part of the coast, which caused a standstill and formed columns of cars on that part of the road, the police announced.
The police then announced that the incident occurred after a police patrol tried to legitimize a group of citizens "behaving suspiciously", which they refused and stoned two policemen and their vehicle.
According to the police announcement, a group of citizens then blocked the traffic on the roundabout towards Podgorica Airport, and the Police Intervention Unit was immediately dispatched to the scene, whose members were pelted with stones by the demonstrators during the intervention.
According to UP, on that occasion Živković suffered head injuries and a citizen took him to the Emergency Center for help, after the Emergency Medical Service could not approach the blocked intersection.
M. J.
