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[Excerpts]

The Police Law

enforced on 9th December 1993

Art. 61.

1. The regional board of senior officials and experts, following the motion of the official in charge of the force and taking under consideration the provisions of the principal chapter, determines the rules concerning the proceedings, procedures and examination of complaints against the actions of regional police force corps officials.

2. The rules as mentioned in point 1 cover:

a. appointing a commission consisting of independent members which in a manner defined in the rules and regulations may control the examination of complaints by the head of the force;

b. time limits for examining a complaint;

c. registration of incoming complaints and related to them decisions made by the head of the force, and;

d. temporary publication of the information mentioned in sub-point c, defining whether and to what extent certain complaints imply structural failures in the operation of police force(s) as well as the measures that have been undertaken to eliminate the aforementioned failures.

3. The head of the force is responsible for publishing the rules.

Art. 66.

The investigation related to the complaint, should it be connected with an offence [a crime], does not constitute a part of legal proceedings until included into the case by a prosecutor’s warrant issued by the prosecutor responsible for prosecution procedures; in this case applies the procedure defined in the Article 12 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.