Disqualified from the Police Academy due to rumors, director: Let them try again next year

2026-01-23 21:59:00, Denoncim CNA

Disqualified from the Police Academy due to rumors, director: Let them try again

Two young people denounced on the show "Stop" on Tv Klan their disqualification from the Police Academy competition, calling the decision unfair and based on false information about their families. The competition was held from September 1 to 21 for the application phase in local police directorates, while the exams began on October 9. The final list of winners and losers was announced on November 26 on the official website of the State Police.

Luzmila Marku from Mirdita states that she passed all the stages of the competition, but was disqualified because, according to the Lezha Police Directorate, her brother has a criminal record. Marku denies this claim and says that she has official documentation proving that her brother is not convicted.

Another case comes from Vlora. Drilon Runaj says he was initially declared the winner, but was later disqualified for "failing to meet legal criteria." After appealing, he was informed that his father and one of his brothers had been convicted, which Runaj denies, stating that he has official certificates proving the opposite.

Regarding these cases, the director of the Security Academy, Ilir Mandro, states that the Academy has no competence in selecting applicants.

Ilir Mandro: Odeta, the Security Academy, since I became rector, has removed all the questions, tests, servers, everything from its own door and the General Directorate is taken over because it does the planning and has, so to speak, the strategy for taking on the Police. The Security Academy only supports with observers, with facilities, with such logistical things, so for these elements, even for the ones you tell me, the Appeals Commissions and everything are at the General Directorate and are followed by the Deputy General Director, Mr. Sokol Bizhga. So I will give you the number of the process manager who is the process manager, Mr. Skënder Kalemi. Communicate, because he may know something even more!

The director of the Police Training College, Skënder Kalemi, also emphasizes that verifications are carried out by the relevant police stations and directorates.

Skënder Kalemi: Dear journalist, we are a college that provides training and the relevant Commissariats and directorates do the verifications! You can go there! We only take the product that comes from the tests and put it into the teaching process. That's it!

Meanwhile, the Deputy Director General of the State Police, Sokol Bizhga, says that if there is information from police structures that an applicant or his family member is implicated in criminal activity, the disqualification is immediate and irreversible for that year, leaving candidates to apply again the following year.

Sokol Bizhga: There is data that it is about criminal activities that are a source of income from crime: prostitution, drugs, trafficking, etc., etc. that although you are uncondemned by the Court, the Prosecution, etc., etc., this does not mean that since you have escaped, you can penetrate the ranks of the State Police because you are uncondemned. The police is an investigative body and the one who verified your identity in Mirdita, the one who verified your identity in Vlora, is so responsible and open...

Journalist: How did he do it, within the framework of gossip or the system?

Sokol Bizhga: No, no, no, you're wrong! It's not in the context of the rumor!

Journalist: So who says that if someone files a complaint with the police or the prosecutor's office?

Sokol Bizhga: Now, listen…!

Journalist: Within the framework of the headman?

Sokol Bizhga: Listen, here, listen!

Journalist: I want to help the case with an argument!

Sokol Bizhga: He can't solve the case! He can't solve the case! And when he says the Police officer is inappropriate, he is inappropriate, because the Police officer has neither a neighbor, nor a brother with a talisman, nor a grudge. The Police officer is responsible for making an information, making two information, three information and when some information is made and he is caught, and he may not be caught, but the Police officer cannot slander, the Police officer cannot slander for an information that goes through several links. It is the inspector of the area, it is the chief of the section who approves it, it is the chief of the police station who approves it, it is the director of the area, the director for crimes in the directorate who approves it, it is the director of the district who then closes the cycle and brings it to the General Directorate. Now, the cycle is closed! The students have started school, let them try it next time!

Journalist: Next year?

Sokol Bizhga: Yes, they will look at it, try it next year, because now the quotas are in descending order, when this one is disqualified, someone else is promoted in his place and there is a quota that outside of this quota, you can no longer get!/ Tv klan