Six days after the unfortunate event in Lukavac, when a student shot a teacher, the Government of Tuzla Canton (TC), at yesterday’s extraordinary session, decided to appoint an interdepartmental group made up of all relevant institutions in this canton, which records an increase in juvenile delinquency.
Namely, the TC Correctional Facility last year had about 40 minors, and this year, by April alone, it already had 35 requests. The problem of the accommodation capacity of child psychiatry will be solved, for which, to begin with, this canton will allocate 800,000 BAM.
To recall, last week, a former, minor student of the “Lukavac Grad” school in Lukavac shot a teacher. The student was problematic, he was transferred from school to school, and the competent institutions, aware of the problem after numerous reports, claim that they were doing their job.
Hajrudin Mehanovic, Minister of Internal Affairs of the TC said:
“When the police officers visited the home of this child’s parents, it ended up in such a way that it was determined that he did not own a weapon, which we later determined was owned by his grandfather who died abroad. Notification of this came later. Where it ended up, we will find out later. What was known was that there were no registered weapons in the household consisting of father and son. That’s where the police stopped.”
The police reports were forwarded to the competent center for social work, to which the juvenile was handed over for further treatment.
Fadil Alic, Minister of Labor and Social Policy of the TC says that he will carry out expert supervision.
“The levels of the Federation and cantons, by issuing more and more rights every year, burden the employees of the Center for Social Work and we turn them into administrative workers who do not have enough time to deal with professional work. We will carry out expert supervision over the work of the Center for Social Work”.
Hajrudin Mehanovic, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the TCsaid that he proposes to amend the Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) with criminal offenses of denying access to weapons to minors regarding training in the handling of weapons. These are currently acts that are not prescribed by the Criminal Code.
Irfan Halilagic, Prime Minister of TC added:
“We want to be initiators of social conversations on this topic. Therefore, this concerns, above all, the institutions that need to do their job, but it also concerns citizens and parents who must be involved in these processes and every level of government”.
The case from Lukavac opened Pandora’s box full of problems, omissions, ignorance, inaction, dysfunctionality, and irresponsibility of the entire system. Everything according to the established pattern, it’s someone else’s fault, N1 reports.
E.Dz.
