SERBIAN POLICE - BALCAN WAR ERA - UNIT for SPECIAL OPERATIONS JSO - RED BERET SLEEVE PATCH
Special Operations Unit (Serbian:
Јединица за специјалне операције - ЈСО, Jedinica za specijalne operacije
- JSO),
or the Frenkies (Serbian:
Френкијевци, Frenkijevci), or the Red Berets (Srpski:
Црвене беретке, Crvene beretke),
was an elite special unit of the Serbia Service of State Security. It
was officially incorporated into the security system of the FR
Yugoslavia in the spring of 1996, by merging paramilitary units which
operated in Bosnian and Croatian wars under command of Željko Ražnatović
Arkan (the "Tigers") and Franko Simatović (the "Red berets") and under
the auspice of Jovica Stanišić, head of Serbian security service (Resor
državne bezbednosti, RDB). From 1996 to November 2001, it was formally
under the competence of the RDB. The unit was finally disbanded in March
2003, after the Prime Minister of Serbia Zoran Đinđić was assassinated
as a result of a conspiracy in which some members of the unit were
involved.