Number of Police in Kosovo....

July 23rd
(Day 'unknown' of 116)

Pristina, Kosovo.

Today is our last day in Kosovo, and as expected, there is not much to do around the town. Kosovo has been under UN control since 1999 and declared independence from Serbia in February 2008. Things are still up in the air regarding this area, but the new government is trying to make sure that an independent country is the only solution.

Ministries in Kosovo are prevalent around the two major streets. It seems like the government appropriated entire apartment complexes or businesses in order to create ministries around town, from agriculture, detention centers, to foreign affairs. Probably the coolest/most random choice is for the Supreme Court of Kosovo to take the place of a nice looking apartment complex just off an avenue. Maybe in the future that'll all change.

HOW many police are in Kosovo/Pristina???
Matt and I were sitting down at a restaurant adjacent to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo building and soon realized that this town had so many police officers. Probably 5 officers a minute walked by while we were eating. It was insane. Most were Kosovars, but every now and then there'd be a European or American police officer. We probably counted close to 100 officers while we were eating. We thought that was insane.
After we finished eating, we continued our walk along one of the main streets toward the Supreme Court, only to realize that next door to the restaurant was the 'Regional Police Station in Pristina', complete with an entire parking lot of police cars and officers going in and out for coffee at a cafe.
Apparently it wasn't really that crazy, but still it was a lot of cops.

We will be taking a night bus from Pristina to Budva, Montenegro today.