Interior Minister Ervin Demo delivered a speech at the joint conference of the State Police and the Guardia di Finanza, where the results of aerial monitoring of Albanian territory for 2026 were presented.
In his speech, Demo stressed that “the fight against crime is not a statistics race, but an obligation to the people who expect more security, peace and protection from us.”
“For me, the success of the Police is not measured only by the number of operations, arrests or hectares controlled. These are important indicators that help us understand what we have done and where we need to improve, but the final measure is how safe citizens feel and how little space criminal groups have to operate in the territory“, the minister stated.
Further, Demo paid particular attention to striking the finances of criminal groups, stressing that arresting their members is not enough to stop illegal activity.
“We cannot expect a country to achieve sustainable economic, social and political development if it does not have security at the appropriate levels. We should not view Europe merely as a destination for which we must prepare and protect ourselves from the phenomena coming from it, but we must be contributors to the security of the European Union as a whole“, Demo further said.