As of 2008, Bulgaria's capital would have a municipal police, Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov told Focus news agency on December 25.

He said Interior Minister Roumen Petkov had promised him to take a proposal for its formation to parliament. Besides guarding municipal property, the municipal police would have the task to regulate traffic in the city, Dnevnik daily quoted Borissov as saying.

According to Borissov, many cities would follow Sofia's example once it would receive the permission to form a municipal police. The municipal police would work together with road police. The Interior Ministry, under which the road police was, constantly complained that there were not enough policemen to deal with the heavy traffic.

The new police would include municipally owned Egida security company, which has been at the centre of several rows over the past years. This way, Egida and the police would be under the direct control of the administration of Borissov and not a board, as was until now.
Egida was the security company guarding Sofia's schools and kindergartens and underground passages. From its security activities, income from rent from trade spaces in the underground passages and billboards around the entrances of the underground passages, Egida posted only 70 000 leva in profits over 2007.

Sofia municipal council was sole owner of around 30 companies, with a collective annual dividend of less than five million leva, Dnevnik said.
Borissov said he would re-structure other municipally owned companies. Chairman of the municipal council Andrei Ivanov said before Christmas that this could only happen after two to three months.

Other companies which would be restructured would include the five transport companies the municipality owned, Dnevnik daily said. These included Tramcar and Elektrotransport, whose directors had recently been removed from their positions.

In reply to a request from the municipality of Pernik to have the Sofia metro extended to Pernik, Borissov said he would agree if Pernik would accept a deal to store 470 000 tons of Sofia's waste.