Financial police unit to be created from start of 2017: interior minister

A financial police squad will be created from the start of 2017 as part of a wider police reorganisation, Minister of Interior Milan Chovanec announced on Thursday. Negotiations will take place with the Customs Administration about the division of responsibilities, he added. Terrorism, cybernetic crime, and the fight against corruption were picked out as the priorities for the new centralised police unit for combatting organised crime which started operations at the beginning of August. The minister added that only five police had left the service over the controversial reorganisation, which merged previous specialised units, with two or three more saying that they would leave. The reorganisation sparked a major row between government parties.

Author: Chris Johnstone