Former Director of the Mission for Education and Police Development Steve Bennett has estimated that the resignation of Kosovo Police Director Gazmend Hoxha, following 49-year-old Arlinda Zekaj, was unnecessary and could negatively affect the institution’s reform process.
Through a post, Bennett stressed that the case requires full accountability, but according to him, the general director’s departure risks the symbolic responsibility to replace the investigation of institutional failures that led to tragedy.
He has demanded that the investigation focus on the way institutions handled the case, particularly in implementing defence orders, risk assessment and response to investigators’ warnings.
According to Bennett, these issues relate to organisational practices, command responsibility and institutional culture, so they cannot be solved only through the departure of the police leader.
Calculating should be proportional to proven responsibility and not simply determined by the position or hierarchy of the office someone holds, he wrote.
Bennett has voiced concern that Hoxha’s resignation could weaken the reform process, stressing that the higher leadership should be part of identifying failures and implementing recommendations.
In the end, he has called for an independent and comprehensive investigation, as well as concrete measures to improve institutional functioning.
According to him, citizens’ trust returns not only through resignations but through clear identification of failures and proven improvements in protecting vulnerable persons.
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