51. Federal police are chosen by the Muslim and Croat security officials and approved by U.N. police monitors. 52. Fitzgerald said the number of international police monitors was being increased, and NATO said it had sent more troops to Ilidza and Grbavica to bolster confidence. 53. Fitzgerald said the number of international police monitors was being increased, and NATO said it had sent more troops to Ilidza and Grbavica to increase confidence. 54. From there, it was to travel to Brcko, where the U.N. police monitors have launched reform of the local, Bosnian Serb police force. 55. Georg Stiebler of Unna, Germany, and Andrzej Buler of Zielona Gora, Poland, also were police monitors, working on police reform in Bosnia. 56. He said international police monitors would call on heavily armed SFOR units to dismantle any illegal checkpoints in case the Serbs resist their orders. 57. He said local police and international U.N. police monitors were investigating the explosions which appeared to have been caused by three rocket-propelled grenades. 58. He said police monitors were present as observers only. 59. He said the problem was that there were not enough federal police in Ilidza and that their numbers were restricted by the international police monitors. 60. Immediately after the shootings, international officials, the NATO-led peace force and U.N. police monitors launched an investigation. |
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