| | Comparative Criminology | Europe - Albania (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Each security or police organization--the Sigurimi, the Frontier Guards, and the People's Police--constituted a separate directorate within the ministry; each had a larger proportion of personnel who were party members than the armed forces because of the need for political reliability. |
 | | He blamed many problems of the police on their former cooperation with the Sigurimi in its role of protecting the party and state against the citizens. |
 | | Sporadic strikes and rebellions in the labor camps, to which the Sigurimi often responded with military force, resulted in the death of more than 1,000 prisoners as well as the execution of many survivors after they were suppressed. |
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