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The Kosovo Police Service (KPS; Albanian: Sherbimi Policor i Kosovës; Serbian: Kosovska Policijska Služba) was created in 1999 in the aftermath of the NATO bombing campaign and subsequent withdrawal of the Yugoslav and forces from Kosovo. Kosovo is a province of Serbia which has been under UN administration since 1999.

The establishment of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) included a large international policing component, named the UNMIK Police. They were given two primary tasks by UN Security Council Resolution 1244: 1) to establish a new police force; 2) in the meantime, to maintain civil law and order. The name for the new police force "Kosovo Police Service," was chosen by the first international police commissioner, Sven Frederiksen. Recruitment began immediately, and a former police school premise in the city of Vučitrn was renovated by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which began to train cadets. To this day, the force remains subordinated to the UNMIK Police, and the police commissioner retains command authority over both the international police and the KPS. The KPS has grown steadily since 1999, and in 2004 reached its planned full size of nearly 7,000 officers. About 85% of KPS officers are ethnic Albanians, 15% are ethnic Serbs as well as other smaller ethnic minorities.

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The constitutional status of Kosovo has changed on several occasions since the region was incorporated into Serbia in 1912. The province is the subject of a long-running political and territorial dispute between the Serbian (and previously, the Yugoslav) government and Kosovo's
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The Kosovo Force (KFOR) is a NATO-led international force responsible for establishing a safe and secure environment in Kosovo, a province of Serbia which has been under UN administration since 1999.
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The Kosovo Protection Corps (Albanian: Trupat e Mbrojtjes së Kosovës) is a civilian emergency services organization in Kosovo, a province of Serbia under administration by the United Nations.
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Fatmir Sejdiu (born October 23, 1951) is the 2nd and current President of Kosovo, a Serbian province under UN administration since the 1999 Kosovo War.

He was born in the small village of Pakaštica near Podujevo, in Kosovo, Yugoslavia (now Serbia).
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