The result of selfless efforts is beyond obvious. The Republic of Macedonia today is a safer country. Therefore, all the honors on this day belong to all of you who  worked for Macedonia and its citizens unconditionally in the past year, Interior Minister Gordana Jankuloska said Wednesday in her speech marking the Macedonian Police Day.

"It is hard to win trust, but it can be lost quite easily. It depends on all of us how citizens will perceive the uniform and the institution we are representing. We cannot allow your courage, sincerity and honesty to be marred even by the slightest doubt. Each and everyone of us must in the future continue doing their best at the service of citizens," Jankuloska told MoI's members and employees.

Speaking before her future colleagues, Minister Jankuloska urged them to demonstrate sacrifice, knowledge and team spirit acting as the main driving force of the reforms planned for the future.

The MoI in 2013, she added, recorded a drop in criminal activities, more precisely in violent crime. "Thus, 21 murder was recorded in the past year i.e. one murder in 100 thousand inhabitants, which is one of the lowest rates in Europe," Jankuloska said noting that crimes such as extortion, kidnappings and blackmail, disruption of public peace and order had been also in decline.

To mark Police Day, flowers were also laid on the monument of perished police officers at the Ministry of Interior.