4.1 STATE POLICE State Police is subject to oversight and control by several institutions from the executive, judiciary, and Parliament. The executive control and oversight on the work and functionality of the State Police are mostly exercised through the Minister of the Interior. The most important tool of oversight utilized by the Ministry of Interior to supervise the work of the State Police is the Albanian Service of Internal Control. The Parliament has three permanent commissions that perform control and oversight, namely National Security Committee, Committee on Legal Matters, Public Administration and Human Rights, and Committee on Economy and Finances. Several independent institutions exert oversight over the police, such as the Ombudsperson, the Commissioner for Protection against Discrimination, etc. State Police is subject to the control of the judiciary; however, “the judiciary system as a way of control and oversight of the State Police is a poor remedy to problems relating to police abuses, issues of bad practices, and violations”. 18F 14 The State Police has a consolidated system for collecting and processing citizens' complaints. In recent years, due to the application of information technology, the registration of complaints by citizens has become easier. The police also produce reports based on the data collected from the complaint’s examination process. However, this control system, in general, cannot replace the internal mechanisms for monitoring the legality of state police activity in a specific element such as equality of the citizens before the law. Beyond the requirements of the law, the state police do not have a comprehensive system specialized in measuring, evaluating to draw lessons from, in terms of respecting human rights and in particular the equal application of the law. 14 Geron Kamberi and Erdi Memaj,“The Albanian Public’s Trust in Security: Stumbling Blocks to EU Negotiations”, 28. 19