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38571on the stadium, Ristić, barracks and other above-mentioned facilities. 5452 The TrialChamber has also considered evidence of this witness, reviewed in chapter 4.5.2.1416. Vukašinović stated that a large number of RSK police officers were deployed inunits on the Dinara Mountains and also there was a unit deployed in the village ofPridraga. 5453 The witness stated that the military command had requested as many menas possible from the police to defend the RSK after the fall of Bosanko Grahovo. 5454Vukašinović testified that the chief of police, Lakić, was in the Dinara near BosankoGrahovo with the rest of the police officers on the morning of 4 August 1995. 5455 Thewitness also testified that on 4 August 1995, RSK police officers left their positions onthe Dinara Mountains and walked 30 kilometres to Kistanje. 5456 The witness alsotestified that the police was one of the defence components of the JNA and that thisremained that way at the time of the conflicts from 1991 to 1995. 5457 Vukašinovićtestified that the SVK issued to the RSK policemen, personnel weaponry consisting ofautomatic or semi-automatic rifles and pistols. 5458 The witness testified that the policearmaments were stored in the police building in Benkovac. 5459 According to the witnessthe SVK communications system had been destroyed in the early morning hours on 4August 1995. 54601417. Witness 56, a Serb policeman in Knin between May 1994 and 5 August1995, 5461 testified that there was a police station in Benkovac, as well as a buildingnearby, a Catholic church, which housed a platoon of the special police, and that therewere large SVK barracks in the suburbs. 5462 There was also a JNA centre (on the mainroad) and a post office. 5463 Two to three kilometres outside of Benkovac, in Sopot, thecommand of the 3rd Infantry Brigade was stationed in a compound of two to three5452 ðuro Vukašinović, T. 18580-18581.5453 D1499 (ðuro Vukašinović, witness statement, 3 April 2007), para. 6.5454 D1499 (ðuro Vukašinović, witness statement, 3 April 2007), para. 6.5455 ðuro Vukašinović, T. 18538.5456 D1499 (ðuro Vukašinović, witness statement, 3 April 2007), para. 16; T. 185385457 ðuro Vukašinović, T. 18566.5458 ðuro Vukašinović, T. 18567.5459 ðuro Vukašinović, T. 18567.5460 D1499 (ðuro Vukašinović, witness statement, 3 April 2007), para. 9; T. 18564-18565.5461 P286 (Witness 56, witness statement, 5 December 1996), pp. 1-2; P287 (Witness 56, witnessstatement, 18 September 2000), p. 1; P288 (Witness 56, witness statement, 12 June 2007), p. 1, para. 2;P289 (Witness 56, witness statement, 21 May 2008), p. 1; Witness 56, T. 3686.5462 Witness 56, T. 3538, 3560, 3625-3626; D248 (Maps of the city of Benkovac and area), p. 3, policestation marked “police station”, church marked “nuns convent”, SVK barracks marked “B. Macurabarracks”.5463 Witness 56, T. 3626; D248 (Maps of the city of Benkovac and area), p. 3.744Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `