Several Kosovo Security Force (KSF) vehicles were seen on October 16 on the streets of North Mitrovica.
The Kosovo Police said that the KSF was mistakenly stationed in the northern part of the country.
"They lost their way, the GPS navigation took them to the north by mistake," Veton Elshani, deputy director of the Kosovo Police for the northern region, told Radio Free Europe.
According to him, the Kosovo Police saw the KSF members, talked to them and then they left the north.
Videos have been published on social media showing several KSF trucks passing along a road in the city of North Mitrovica, one of the four municipalities in the north that are inhabited by a Serb majority.
Elshani told Radio Free Europe that according to police information, the KSF vehicles were parked at a gas station for " five to ten minutes ."
Then, accompanied by police, the KSF left the north via the "fastest route", passing by a bus station at the place known as Shkëmbi i Dudas.
The presence of the KSF in the north of the country is only possible with the prior consent of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, KFOR, based on the 2013 commitment by the Government of Kosovo to NATO.
This commitment, given through a letter from former Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi to the then NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, remains in force today, despite changes in the KSF's mandate.
Radio Free Europe has asked the Ministry of Defense whether it is aware that the KSF has remained in the north and why, and is awaiting a response.
REL is also waiting for answers to these questions from KFOR.
Otherwise, for the last time, with the consent of KFOR, the KSF was in the north on July 29 of this year, in an operation when it found the body of an operative who had jumped from a bridge into Lake Ujman.
The KSF is in the process of transforming itself into an army, following approved legal changes. This process is expected to be completed in 2028.