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39222operated on call from axis commanders or from Sačić in order to clear the passage. 612According to Cetina, the Special Police also had APCs. 613 With regard to the SpecialPolice’s use of artillery the Trial Chamber has also considered the testimony of MarkoRajčić, reviewed in chapter 3.1, as well as exhibits P1125 and D970, reviewed inchapter 4.4.3.178. With regard to the geographical boundaries of the Special Police, Janić testifiedthat on the right of the Special Police’s designated area of responsibility for the attackwas the Split MD and to the left the Gospić MD. 614 The witness explained that theSpecial Police coordinated its operations with these two MDs. 615 The Trial Chamber hasconsidered the evidence of Repinć on the topic, reviewed in chapter 3.1.1. The lack of aprecise zone of responsibility assigned to the Special Police during Operation Stormimplied, according to Repinć, that Markač neither had territorial responsibility nor thetask, the forces or the mechanisms to control, prohibit, or allow entry or departure ofany forces, except for his own, along the axes of attack or in areas of deployment of theCollective Special Police Forces. 616 More specifically, the Special Police wereresponsible for the area where they were at a specific moment and the axis along whichthey carried out an attack, but upon leaving an area they had no obligation to keepmonitoring it by establishing check-points or by leaving forces behind. 617 Theestablishment of such check-points, together with the prevention and repression ofcrime, was the responsibility of the VP and of the civilian police. 618 In addition, becauseof the high tempo of the attack, the large area that the Special Police units had to coveron foot, and the available manpower, Markač was in no position to establish checkpointsor roadblocks behind the reached lines. 619 Repinć further testified that, after thefirst two days of fierce fighting, during which the enemy’s frontline was severed andGračac was taken, Markač moved to pursue enemy forces to prevent their consolidationand took Bruvno. Thereafter, the Collective Special Police Forces in the territories of612 Željko Sačić, T. 27759-27760.613 D1745 (Ivica Cetina, witness statement, 26 February 2002), p. 5.614 Zdravko Janić, T. 6325; D280 (Map depicting the areas of responsibility of the Split MD and theGospić MD).615 Zdravko Janić, T. 6325; D543 (Special Police orders for Operation Storm sent to Markač fromZvonimir Červenko, 29 July 1995), p. 2.616 D1932 (Dragutin Repinć, Expert Report, December 2009), para. 97; Dragutin Repinć, T. 26716.617 Dragutin Repinć, T. 26716-26717.618 D1932 (Dragutin Repinć, Expert Report, December 2009), para. 97.619 D1932 (Dragutin Repinć, Expert Report, December 2009), para. 97; Dragutin Repinć, T. 26717-26718.93Case No.: IT-06-90-T 15 April 2011 `