THE ALBANIAN PUBLIC'S TRUST IN SECURITY: STUMBLING BLOCKS TO EU NEGOTIATIONS 4. Recommendations 4.1. The Armed Forces ▪ The lack of parliamentary oversight should be addressed. Causes of this weak oversight could be weak administrative capacities, lack of independent expertise, and/or politicization. ▪ The Ombudsperson should be provided with improved administrative and professional capacities that should serve to improve and fine-tune the oversight role over the Armed Forces and to strengthen its legitimacy. ▪ The SSAI should dedicate a separate section to the Armed Forces in its audit report and financial analysis. 4.2. The State Police ▪ The parliamentary oversight should be strengthened with regards to the State Police, with committees dedicated to the oversight having more than a formal function. ▪ The role of the Ombudsperson and the SSAI should be strengthened concerning oversight of issues relating to the police. ▪ The police evaluations conducted in the colloquially known"Police Vetting" should be concluded with increased brevity, perhaps even with a reconsideration of the process. ▪ The policy of increasing police numbers to act as a"human wave" against crime should be reconsidered, and replaced by the technological modernization of police. ▪ Consideration should be given to increasing the role of civil society in matters of police oversight. 4.3. The Intelligence Services ▪ The legal framework of the SIS should be updated and improved, similarly to the law on military intelligence. ▪ A more bipartisan oversight on matters of intelligence should be established, to avoid another situation like that of the feud between the previous director and the government. ▪ The Ombudsperson should exercise its full powers when conducting oversight on the SIS. ▪ The problems related to secret procurement in the SIS should be clarified, to provide specific areas, works, and products that are explicitly part of"state secret", thereby making abuses in this area much harder and making the work of the SSAI that much more all-encompassing. 35