The Special Public Prosecution is pleased with the amendments to the Law on witness protection that soon have to be passed at the Parliament. The prosecution informed Meta agency that the proposed legal solution contains the requests and suggestions provided by SPO during the period of the making of the bill.
-SPO was part of the working group that worked on the preparing of the amendments in the Law for witness protection. Our demands and suggestions were accepted and they were implemented in the text. This draft corresponds to the demands and the needs of the Special Public Prosecution – explained SPO.
The amendments in the Law on witness protection is allowing the SPO to make decisions to include persons in the witness protection program about cases that are under the authority of SPO.
Otherwise, the following measures are used in the witness protection program: keeping the secrecy of the identity, providing personal protection, change of residence and change of identity.
