Control of Irregular Migration and Suppression of People Smuggling on the Western Balkan Route

• Published in: Journal of Liberty and International Affairs (Bitola) Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 119 - 136
• Main Authors: Janković, Bojan D, Marković, Saša M, Ivanov, Aleksandar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institute for Research and European Studies - Bitola 2024; Institute for Research and European Studies
• Subjects: Administrative Law; Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields; Constitutional Law; Criminal Law; Developing nations; Economic policy; EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development; EU-Legislation; European Union; Geopolitics; Governance; Government/Political systems; Human Rights and Humanitarian Law; Inter-Ethnic Relations; International Law; International relations/trade; Irregular Migration; Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence; Migration; Migration Studies; Military policy; Peace and Conflict Studies; Police; Political Sciences; Political Theory; Politics; Politics / Political Sciences; Politics and law; Politics and religion; Politics and society; Public Administration; Public Law; Security; Security and defense; Smuggling; Sociology; Welfare systems; Western Balkans; Smuggling; Western Balkans; Security; Police; European Union; Irregular Migration
• ISSN: 1857-9760; 1857-9760
• DOI: 10.47305/JLIA24102119j

The subject of this paper is irregular migration and modern models of preventing the smuggling of migrants on the part of the Western Balkan route through the Republic of Serbia. The goal is to show how the new strategic approach of the Serbian police in this area can give excellent results, that the application of modern methods of policing and technical means are aimed at preventing the smuggling of migrants, i.e., the illegal movement and transport of migrants across the state border and state territory to go to countries of the European Union. Based on the conducted research, the authors have drawn certain conclusions: 1) effectiveness, efficiency, and economy in the area of suppression of irregular migration can be achieved by applying an adequate criminal strategy, 2) the new strategic approach led to the discovery and arrest of a large number of people smugglers and the discovery of illegal firearms, 3) the use of modern technical means, coordinated, joint work of different police units and management from a single center by a strategic level manager directly in charge of combating irregular migration and human smuggling in a particular area (territory) which is estimated to be a hotspot of criminal activity, is a prerequisite for success.