Podgorica, (MINA) – Members of the LGBT community have high level of trust in police officers, said head of the Crime Police – Violent Crimes unit Srdjan Korac, stating that the downward trend in the number of reports filed by LGBT persons is registered in the last year.
There has been 69 reports so far this year, according to him, with LGBT persons as the aggrieved party, in comparison to 82 reports in the same period last year.
“There is high level of trust in police officers, which will be our mission in the future also, to continue acting urgently, professionally, morally and with additional sensibility in regard to the LGBT community”, Korac said in an interview to Mina.
He said that sexual orientation and gender identity are a constituting part of every person and thus cannot be the foundation for any form of discrimination or abuse.
Korac added that the government recognized that problem and in 2013 adopted the Strategy for improvement of life of LGBT community in Montenegro, which identified the goals, one of which was forming of the Trust team, comprised of the members of the Police and LGBT community.
Asked if there were reports by LGBT persons who suffered violence from the members of their families, he said that they did not have such reports, but that information from the field testify that such things exist.
Korac added that NGO sector invests great efforts in finding best solutions, and that other reports mainly consider negative comments on the account of LGBT community in particular on social media.
According to him, three reports have been filed so far, where unidentified persons directly attacked LGBT persons.
“By fast intervention of the police we succeeded in identifying those persons, process them and introduce the competent prosecutors’ offices with the cases”, Korac said.
Asked if he believed that the police team for contact and cooperation with LGBT community fulfilled its mission, Korac said that he was sure that they fully fulfilled the goal of their founding and existence.
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