Role of women in Macedonian police

On the international Women’s Day 8 March, Analytica’s Security Researcher Andreja Bogdanovski talked about the role of women in Macedonian police in Belgrade, Serbia. Mr. Bogdanovski mentioned that 18% of Ministry of Interior employees are women.

Additionally, there were several high-ranking policewomen in the system including two ministers of Interior as well as a policewoman taking part of the first Macedonian police involvement in international missions abroad (UN Mission in Liberia). Still the policewomen and the ministry as such did not capitalise a lot regarding further promotion of the role of women in police despite the above-mentioned good examples. Apart from these high profile positions, women in Macedonian police hold “traditional women” police positions in working with minors, with women, dealing with international police cooperation, prevention, organizational units for analysis, common issues, IT, etc.

The event was part of the activities of the regional police integrity network POINTPULSE (www.pointpulse.net).