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MINISTER KARAN AND DIRECTOR KOSTREŠEVIĆ ATTENDED THE PROMOTION OF THE ATTENDEES OF SAU TRAINING

| Banja Luka | Thursday, 26/09/2024
Today, the Republic of Srpska Minister of the Interior, Mr Siniša Karan, and the Police Director, Mr Siniša Kostrešević, attended the ceremony of awarding the certificates and red berets for 12 attendees who successfully completed the training for the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit, held at the Training Centre in Zalužani, near Banja Luka.
Minister Karan pointed out that the Republic of Srpska was stable and peaceful with satisfactory general security situation and the trends of crime were reducing in all fields.
Furthermore, he pointed out that the security was not something that exists naturally, but something that is largely a product of everyday hard work of all units of the Ministry of the Interior. He added that the SAU was a unit trained and equipped for the most challenging tasks.
‘Ever since the terrorist attack in Zvornik, until the last few years, through various types of serious criminal offences, organised crime, terrorism, hostage situations, attacks on the constitutional order, there has been a need in the Ministry to create elite units that would be trained and equipped to solve the most challenging situations. The SAU responds to these challenges’, Minister Karan said.
‘The fact that out of the total number of 139 applicants in the 9th and 10th class, only 12 candidates managed to pass the complete training suggests how difficult it is to obtain the red beret and become a member of SAU’, Minister Karan said.
Minister Karan explained that: ‘We have organised the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit in such a manner that it can respond to all security challenges, especially those that are related to attacks on the constitutional order, specific forms of organised crime, hostage situations, special situations in which the security of persons and buildings under protection are threatened, when public order and peace are violated with destructive tendencies’.
He added that the members of the SAU have to know and honor the values that the Special Police Brigade 1992-1995 had, since the total number of 1,500 used to be members of this brigade, 144 of whom gave their lives for the Republic of Srpska.
‘The total number of 782 members of the Ministry of the Interior have fallen in the defensive-patriotic war, and after the war to this day, 32 members have lost their lives while performing their official tasks’, Minister Karan said.
Minister Karan concluded that the Ministry of the Interior would continue to equip and train the SAU as an elite and the best-trained unit that is ready to respond to the most challenging tasks.