Croatian Minister of the Interior Tomislav Karamarko and Bosnian Security Minister Sadik Ahmetovic signed in Sarajevo on Friday an agreement on police cooperation in the fight against cross-border crime, which had been initialled at a joint session of the two governments in Split in June.
After talks behind closed doors, Karamarko and Ahmetovic signed the agreement which defines ways of intensifying cooperation between police agencies through the exchange of information in investigations and the appointment of police liaison officers.
Karamarko called on Bosnia and Herzegovina to join in a project to establish a regional crime prevention centre, launched by Croatia and Serbia.
He added that the initiative would help countries in the region draw closer to the European Union.
Ahmetovic described the Croatian-Bosnian police cooperation as satisfactory, saying that it had resulted in a number of successful police operations in the fight against cross-border crime.
