PRISTINA (Reuters) -- Hundreds of Serb police in Kosovo vowed on Friday not to follow the orders of the Albanian-dominated force after the territory split from Serbia.

The Kosovo Serb officers are demanding they report to the United Nations police force, rather than the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) command in the capital Pristina.
Around 100 officers in the eastern Gnjilane region were suspended on full pay indefinitely, a police spokesman said.
""The KPS officers are returning their equipment,"" said Ismet Hashani. There are around 700 Serb officers in the 7,000-strong force, created by the United Nations after it took control of the breakaway territory at the end of the 1998-99 war.
Backed by Russia, Serbia and the 120,000 remaining Serbs in Kosovo have rejected the declaration of independence by the 90-percent ethnic Albanian majority, which has been recognized by the major Western powers.
In the central Serb monastery town of Gracanica, 100 Serb officers in uniform gathered outside the local police station to demand negotiations with the regional UN police chief.
""Serb KPS officers across Kosovo will do today what Serbs ... did in northern Kosovo,"" Stanko Jakovljevic, Serb mayor of the southern Kosovo region of Strpce, told Reuters. ""They will only recognize orders from international police.""
Kosovo became a de facto UN protectorate in 1999, after NATO bombed to drive out Serb forces and halt the killing and ethnic cleansing of Albanians in a two-year war against rebels.
As three more European nations recognized Kosovo's independence from Serbia, Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic fired off a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon about the formation of the International Steering Group.
The ISG's establishment ""was made illegally, outside of the mandate of the United Nations Security Council"" and was ""completely unacceptable to Serbia"", Jeremic told Ban, according to a ministry statement.
The ISG, made up of countries which have either recognized Kosovo or indicated they will soon do so, was formed in Vienna on Thursday in accordance with UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari's plan for Kosovo's ""supervised independence.""
Rejected by Serbia, the so-called Ahtisaari plan was blocked before it reached the Security Council by Russia, a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN body which had argued for a compromise solution to Kosovo's status.
The parliament of Kosovo declared independence on February 17.
It has since been recognized by the United States and leading nations in the European Union, including Britain, France and Germany. Among those opposed are Cyprus, Romania and Spain.
The latest countries to recognize Kosovo on Friday were Iceland, Ireland and Finland, one of the 15 members of the International Steering Group.