Questioning for Montenegro captives

The men were arrested near the Montenegran border

By Brian Barron in Podgorica

Two British policemen and two Canadians who were arrested by the Yugoslav army early last week are spending their first weekend in captivity.

The four arrested men are being held in a guarded military barracks on the edge of the small mountain town of Andrijevica.

Normally, there would be no more than 100 soldiers in such an outpost, though it's understood a contingent of officers have arrived from Belgrade, presumably to help with further interrogation and evaluation of testimony.

Hopes for access

It's still not clear whether the federal military authorities intend to press charges.

Adrian Prangnell , aged 41, is a Detective Sergeant from Hampshire

The hope is that on Monday, British and Canadian officials from Belgrade will be given access to the men, who were on an excursion from neighbouring Kosovo when they were arrested in a sensitive border area an hour's drive from Andrijevica.

The two British policemen, Adrian Prangnell from Hampshire and John Yore from Cambridgeshire, have been training police recruits in Kosovo.

The Government of Montenegro has joined the men's employers - the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe - in dismissing allegations by the Yugoslav military that the men might have been instructing secessionists in this republic.