Mr Siniša Kostreševiæ ,was born on 14 May 1980 in Banja Luka, where he finished the Secondary School of Internal Affairs in 1999. In the same year, he started his career in Èelinac PS, and then enrolled Higher School of Internal Affairs. After the graduation in 2002, Mr Kostreševiæ was deployed to the then Banja Luka Public Security Centre. In 2004, he became a commander of Laktaši Police Station. Three years later, he graduated from the Faculty of Internal Affairs, continued his professional training, and completed his specialist studies in 2013. In 2011, he was deployed to the Crime Police Administration first as the head of the Division for countering organised crime, and then he became the head of the Unit for countering organized crime and corruption. In 2013, he was promoted to the post of the head of the newly established Service for countering organized crime and corruption – deputy to the head of the Crime Police Administration. Starting from 2015, he was working for two years on the post of deputy head to the newly established Administration for countering terrorism and extremism. In December 2016, he became the head of Crime Police Administration, and he remained on this position until the beginning of 2019. On 1 August 2020, Mr Kostreševiæ was appointed police director, after being an expert advisor to the Minister of the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior. While performing various activities at the Ministry, both the organizational units he managed and he himself were rewarded by the Ministry and international organisations for numerous operational actions he managed. Mr Siniša Kostreševiæ is married and a father of two children.
+387 51 334-310
+387 51 334-309
direktor@mup.vladars.net
Bulevar Desanke Maksimoviæ; Street 4, 78000 Banja Luka
The Police Director manages all police activities as a manager of the internal operative affairs at the Ministry of Interior of Republic of Srpska, performs, organises, directs and controls police affairs according to the Law on Police and Internal Affairs. For his work he responds to the Minister of the Internal Affairs and the Government of Republic of Srpska.
+387 51 334-310
+387 51 334-309
Bulevar Desanke Maksimoviæ Street 4, 78000 Banja Luka
Directly organizes, manages and supervises the activities of the organizational units within the organizational unit of the Police Director, organizes daily and periodic meetings, suggests concrete measures and takes care of the cooperation with other organizational units within the Ministry. He supervises and analyzes the justifications for using coercive measures and makes the assessment on how justified the justifications delivered by the heads of the basic organizational units are. He assists the Police Director in all the activities related to his mandate, replaces the director in case of his absence or inability to attend certain events and, if necessary, performs other activities set by the police director.
Ilija Plavša, was born on 22nd November, 1972 in Knin, where he finished primary and secondary school. He graduated from the High School of Internal Affairs in Zemun in 1997, and graduated from the Faculty of Criminalistics, Criminology and Security Studies in Sarajevo in 2013. He started working at the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2002 as an intern at the Kozarska Dubica Police Station. He performed the following jobs and tasks: crime police inspector at the Kozarska Dubica Police Station, crime police inspector in the Department for Countering the Production and Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs in the Criminal Police Administration, head of the Team for the Implementation of the Strategy for Combating Drug Addiction, head of the Department for Suppressing Drug Abuse in the Crime Police Administration and expert advisor to the Director of Police. He assumed the position of Head at the Police Director-Office of Director on 01.09.2023.
051/334-310
051/334-309
direktor@mup.vladars.rs
Bulevar Desanke Maksimoviæ 4, 78000 Banja Luka
Manages and organizes the work of the Office and takes care of the legal, timely and efficient execution of working tasks, monitors and studies the work of the Office, informs the director of the police about it and proposes concrete measures, analyzes reports, information and other materials related to the situation and phenomena in the area of internal affairs, performs certain protocol tasks and other tasks assigned to him by the police director. He prepares plans, reports, analyzes and information from the scope of work. He informs the director of the police about all important issues from the scope of work and he is responsible for work, working results and execution of tasks within the competence of the Office.
Miloš Brkiæ was born on 2 April 1979 in Gradiška, BIH. He finished Police Academy in 2003 in Belgrade, and became graduate police officer.
Mr Brkiæ has been employed with the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior since 1997. Previously, he has performed tasks in the following positions: policeman, inspector for general crime, assistant commander at Srbac Police Station, deputy commander at Laktaši PS, commander of Banja Luka – Centre PS, head of Gradiška Public Security Station, head of the Police Sector at Banja Luka PSC, head of Uniformed Police in Gradiška and head of Banja Luka Police Administration.
Mr Brkiæ was appointed head of the Uniformed Police Administration in March 2023.
+387 51 334-347
+387 51 334-390
up@mup.vladars.net
Bulevar Desanke Maksimoviæ Street 4, 78000 Banja Luka
Uniformed police Administration conducts all these activities through its organizational units.
Snežana Radivojeviæ was born on 4 July 1980 in Bijeljina, BIH, where she finished primary school and Grammar School. She finished Higher School of Internal Affairs in 2005 in Banjaluka, and in 2008, she finalised her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Security and Protection in Banjaluka.
Ms Radivojeviæ was employed with the Ministry of the Interior in 2005 as an intern at the Department for protecting persons and facilities, Uniformed Police Administration. She performed tasks on the following positions: crime police inspector at the Division for preventing crimes against life and limb and sexual offences, Department for general crime prevention, Crime Police Sector at Banja Luka Public Security Center; crime police inspector at the Division for financial investigations and money laundering, Crime Police Administration, and then she was deployed to perform tasks of deputy head of Crime Police Administration.
Ms Radivojeviæ was appointed head of Crime Police Administration on 22 March 2023.
+387 51 334-374
+387 51 334-381
ukp@mup.vladars.net
Bulevar Desanke Maksimoviæ Street 4, 78000 Banja Luka
Duties of Crime Police Administration are as follows:
The Unit is organized in accordance with the European standards for Special Police Units, so that its structure and unit strength provide quality training and high operability level in performing certain tasks.
Everybody who wishes to become a member of Special Anti-Terrorist Unit has to go through rigorous and difficult selective training. The contest for accepting new candidates depends on the needs of the Unit and available job posts. Training of future members is based on the experiences of home and foreign specialized units and is harmonized with the universally accepted world standards and trends. In accordance with the strictly purposeful needs, the aim of Special Anti-Terrorist Unit training is to professionally train, drill, and prepare all the members of the operational unit both physically and mentally to successfully perform the most complex and delicate tasks in all situations and in every moment.
Ever since it was established to this day, the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit has been continuously developed and modernised and the process can be divided into three stages:
� First stage (from 1992 to 1995);
� Second stage (from 1995 to 2001);
� Third stage (from 2001 to today)
With the outbreak of war conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the members of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Ministry of the Interior divided based on their ethnicity, so on 4 April 1992, the Police Unit for Special Actions was also divided, and in the second half of 1992, the Special Police Brigade was formed. In the period of war conflicts, from 1992 to 1994, nine units were formed with brigade command stationed in the village of Janja, BIH. Formation structure was as follows: Command, I � Pale division, II � �ekovi�i division, III � Trebinje division, IV � Bijeljina division, V � Doboj division, VI - Banja Luka division, VII � Prijedor division, VIII � Ilid�a division, and IX � Fo�a division. During the war, the Special Police Brigade had 1,500 members, and 144 of them gave their lives for the Republic of Srpska and 400 members were injured. On multiple occasions, the Unit was decorated with the orders of Petar Mrkonji�, Nemanji�i, the First of Order of Njego�, and the order of Merits for the People. Certain number of Unit members was decorated with the orders of Milo� Obili� and Milan Tepi� and other decorations.
From 1995 to 2001, the whole Brigade completely changed under detailed monitoring of international organisations, primarily IPTF. When Dayton Peace Agreement was signed, and since its Annex 1B provided that special formations had to be disbanded and retreated to bases/barracks, the Unit changed its name into Anti-Terrorist Actions Police Brigade. The Annex 11 to Dayton Peace Agreement provided that members had to go through training under control of international police � IPTF. After reorganisation in 1998, the Unit got a new name � Specialised Police Service with the Command in Janja, near Bijeljina, divisions in Prijedor and Ilid�a were disbanded, and divisions in Trebinje and Fo�a were integrated with the base on Tjenti�te. Other divisions were transformed into specialised teams. After the reorganisation 1999/2000, the Specialised Police Service was dislocated from Janja to Banja Luka. All divisions were disbanded with exception to those in Janja and Banja Luka. The Specialised Team was located in Banja Luka and transformed into Anti-Terrorist Team.
In 2001, the division Janja was disbanded, and in Rakova�ke Bare base, near Banja Luka, the Specialised Police Service continued their activities, and parts of it were Anti-Terrorist Team, Specialised Team and Mechanised Team. In 2004, the Service changed its name into Special Police Unit. On 8 August 2016, when the Rulebook on internal organisation and systematisation of job posts in the Republic of Srpska Ministry of Interior entered into force, the Unit changed its name into Special Anti-Terrorist Unit. Since the establishment of the Police Brigade in 1992 until today, the duty of Commander was performed by the following people: 1. Milenko Kari�ik (1992-1993); 2. Goran Sari� (1993-1997); 3. Du�ko Jevi� (1997-1999); 4. Dragan Luka� (1999-2004); 5. Ranko Vukovi� (2004-2006); 6. Predrag Krajnovi� (2006-2015); 7. Dragan Ribi� (2015 -2018); 8. Goran Balaban (2018-).
All activities related to the deployment to peacekeeping operations abroad are performed through the Department for International Cooperation within the Office of the Minister, Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska.
Since 2000, the members of the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior have been deployed to the following UN peacekeeping missions:
- EAST TIMOR (UNMISET)
- LIBERIA (UNMIL)
- CYPRUS (UNFICYP)
- SUDAN (UNMIS)
- SOUTH SUDAN (UNMISS)
- CONGO (MONUSCO).
Selection procedure of the candidates from the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska begins with filling in the Questionnaire on interest to participate in peacekeeping missions. The Questionnaire (in Serbian language) may be downloaded on the website of the Ministry (available in Cyrillic and Latin version).
The basic (minimum) requirements for participation in UN peacekeeping missions are as follows:
1. At least 8 years of effective service in police services for men, and minimum 5 years of effective service for women,
2. Fluency in English (reading, writing, understanding),
3. Good physical and mental health, and satisfactory physical fitness,
4. Successful results for previous work,
5. Driver's licence (B category).
After the submission of the Questionnaire, the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior identifies the candidates fulfilling the basic requirements for participation in UN peacekeeping missions, and forwards the applications of the interested candidates to the BiH Ministry of Security.
The next steps in the application process include:
- process of selection in the BiH Ministry of Security (based on expertise, experience, national, religious and sex coverage of applicants, as well as equal coverage of all law enforcement agencies),
- test in English language and computer skills (organized by the BiH Ministry of Security)
- Pre-mission preparation training to the PSOTC Centre (Peace Support Operations Training Center), at the camp Butmir in Sarajevo � only for applicants who successfully pass the previous tests
- SAAT test � only for applicants who have successfully passed the pre-mission training.
All other information regarding the following steps in the selection process and application procedure after the publication of open positions within the UN peacekeeping missions may be obtained through the Department for International Information, Office of the Minister, located in the building of the Republic of Srpska Government (entrance B).
Address: Banja Luka, Trg Republike Srpske 1
Telephone/Fax 387 51 338 487; +387 51 338 844
E-mail: medjunarodna.saradnja@mup.vladars.net
AIMS OF COMMUNITY POLICING
� Improving the quality of life
� Improving the security situation, reducing crime
� Increasing and improving both subjective and objective sense of security
� Establishing stronger connections with citizens in all social segments by cherishing cooperation which contributes to strengthening trust
� Knowing and respecting the needs of citizens
� Finding long-term solutions
� Solving local security issues
THE INITIAL PILOT PROJECTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
� The initial activities in the field of community policing were initiated in 2002 in cooperation with the members of IPTF, and experience exchange with police agencies from the developed countries of the world, cooperation with numerous international organizations, changes in the countries of the region and membership in various associations, contributed to the concretization of the starting initiatives.
� The pilot project 'Community policing and security in a community' in the municipality of Prijedor was realized in cooperation with British Department for international development (DFID) from October 2003 to December 2005
� In 2004, EUPM started implementing several projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and two of them were the so-called 5.5 and 5.4, that is �Community policing� and �Strengthening the capacities of the local police in terms of the returnees� security�, whose pilot-phase ended at the end of 2005
INTENSIFICATION OF WORK AND CONTINUATION OF COOPERATION WITH INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
� In the beginning of 2007 the cooperation with Swiss Agency for development and cooperation started. Together, they realized various educational activities (seminars and workshops). Experiences were exchanged and three study visits to Switzerland were organized. Several prevention campaigns were conducted, and the field of community policing has become a regular subject at the Higher School of the Interior and College of the Interior in Banjaluka. The Rulebook on community policing for Bosnia and Herzegovina was made and receiving rooms in four police buildings of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska were renovated.
� At the initiative of the British Agency �Safeworld� and the Centre for Security Studies in Sarajevo, a draft of the Rulebook on partnership between the police and community
� In cooperation with UNDP, the project �Safe communities� is being implemented, and as pilot municipalities from the Republic of Srpska, the municipalities of Prijedor, Vi�egrad and Bratunac were chosen.
� Within cooperation with SEPCA (Southeast Europe Police Chiefs Association), the representatives of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska participated in the realization of all the activities of the working group for community policing.
INDEPENDENT PROJECTS� Police work in multiethnic communities
� Local forums for citizens� safety
� School police officer
� Doors open days
PREVENTION CAMPAIGNS
� Dangers and legal consequences of unauthorized use of pyrotechnic articles and weaponry
� Robberies � how to avoid becoming a victim
� Let's prevent juvenile delinquency
� Celebration of the International day of countering drug abuse and human trafficking
� Let's protect our property
� Let's protect children in traffic
� Replace your personal documents timely
� Don't let a burglar spend summer holidays in your home
� Police and citizens together
� Drive safely, spend your summer holidays carefree
� Regular activities of donating blood by the members of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska
� For sober youth
� Helmet saves lives
� The safe use of motorcycles and bicycles with motors in traffic
� Do you know what to do in case of a traffic accident?
� Prepare for winter conditions in traffic
� Tractors and working machines in traffic
� Let's prevent peer violence
'LET'S PREVENT PEER VIOLENCE' CAMPAIGN
Having in mind that prevention, detection and countering violence among children and young people are extremely important segments of police activities, the members of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska, in October 2011, realized a prevention campaign called 'Let's prevent peer violence'. The basic aims of this campaign are as follows:
1. Prevention of new cases of violence among children and young people;
2. Conducting promotional activities and organizing public forums and round tables with the aim of raising public awareness on the necessity of preventing peer violence.
Within the first aim, the organizational units of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska intensified the realization of the project 'School police officer', by conducting planned everyday activities of community policing officers, sector leaders, members of police whose competence is community policing, executive employees as well as all other police officers. As a result, while implementing the campaign, contacts and communication with directors and educators working at educational institutions, as well as parents and students have been improved in order to upgrade mutual trust, identify real problems and individuals who cause conflicts among student population and undertake measures and activities that would help preventing the escalation of peer violence. Special attention was also dedicated to peer violence outside school, when students are not under the supervision of their parents or teachers. Related to this, in October, all police stations realize the following measures and activities aimed at:
- Countering distribution and abuse of narcotic substances among young people (narcotics, alcohol drinks, tobacco products);
- - Denying access and participation of minors in games of chance and similar gambling games (for example, in betting shops).
Within the realization of the listed activities, in October, all public security centers and police stations organize public distribution of promotion material called 'Let's prevent peer violence�, and, in cooperation with the competent government, local and non-governmental institutions and organizations, initiate and participate in the realization of public forums and round tables with the topic of peer violence.
Within the campaign 'Let's prevent peer violence', conducted by the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska, the round table on the topic 'Peer violence and violence against children and media' was held in Banjaluka yesterday. It was organized by the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska together with Ombudsman for children of the Republic of Srpska, Gender Center of the Government of the Republic of Srpska Government and 'Zdravo da ste' Association.
Director of the Police of the Republic of Srpska, Mr. Gojko Vasi� said that statistics show decrease in the number of criminal offences related to peer violence � two years ago, there were 27 of these cases registered; last year, there were 14 of them, and this year, there are 6 cases registered so far. When it comes to juvenile delinquency, director Vasi� said that, this year, the number of registered minors was smaller compared to the previous year, but that it did not have greater significance, because in the last 10 years, these records are approximately the same and that they vary from time to time. 'It is important that all segments of the society function properly,that there are prevention acitivities and that there are mechanisms to prevent the violent behaviour turning into a habit', director Vasi� pointed out and added that police, within their regular activities, pay great attention to the juvenile delinquency. Police director Vasi� explained that the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska, within the realization of 'School police officer' activities, educational lectures and doors open days, was trying to create pre-conditions for the children to get familiarized with the police and thus gain trust in the police through varoious activities of working with the youth and children.
Ms. Nada Grahovac, Ombudsman for children of the Republic of Srpska, stated for the press before the Round table meeting began, that media have a really important role in promoting and protection of children's rights and raising social awareness on violation of those rights, since they often point to the violation of children's rights. She added that sensationalist reporting, the invasion of child and family privacy, still points to the fact that the public right to obtain information is above children's rights. 'The manner of reporting should not additionally hurt the child. One should think about how the published news is going to affect the child who, after everything that happened to them, is supposed to meet the environment, school and peers'', Ms. Grahovac pointed out. She added that media have to ensure the positive content on children and for children who, according to the research, spend 26.5 hours a week in front of television, and only half an hour talking to their parents. 'From this, one can see the influence of the media on children growing up and why it is necessary to learn on good examples of children, parents and teachers', Ms. Grahovac said and added that laws on media still have not recognized children's right on protection adequately.
The president of the Association of high school directors, Mr. Predrag Damjanovi� said that schools give their best to minimize the problem of peer violence. 'Almost all schools are qualified, have psychologists employed, social workers and educators, so we can conduct prevention activities. One should not expect that schools can solve all the issues on their own, because, since without systemic approach, strategies and strategic fight, one can hardly do anything on their own', Mr. Damjanovi� said.
Seminars and higher and middle administrative staff of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska:
� Basic course for the 'Community policing' project
� Community policing and administration
� Security marketing
� Transactional analysis and management
� Public relations training
Transactional analysis (Communication Studies) is the seminar for all the authorized workers of the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Srpska and civil servants in direct contact with citizens.
Courses for police officers for community policing officers:
� Community policing
� Security marketing
� The regular courses 'Community policing and activities related to security sector' realized for sector leaders and police members in whose jurisdiction is the coordination of community policing.
� The continued training of all authorized workers within central organizational units in the field of community policing and prevention
+387 51 331-289
+387 51 331-287
ubpte@mup.vladars.net
Jug Bogdana Street 108, 78000 Banja Luka, BIH
Administration for countering terrorism and extremism performs the following activities:
- to process criminal offenses in the field of terrorism and extremism, as well as war crimes and criminal offenses according to International humanitarian law,
- to control, monitor and instructively direct the activities of all organizational units of the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior that are competent for processing the aforementioned criminal offenses, with the support of crime and information analyses, forensic methods and resources and special operation activities,
- to verify that activities of those organizational units are in accordance with the law,
- to suggest measures, defines deadlines, and determines the obligations of Public Security Centers in the field of controlling the ordered measures with the aim of prevention, detecting and solving criminal offenses from the field of terrorism and extremism, as well as detecting and solving war crimes and criminal offenses according to International humanitarian law,
- to use all the available database of the Ministry for the purpose of performing analytical investigations, as well as information from all open sources, provided that activities are performed in accordance with the law,
- to abstract and use incidental findings collected during investigation and special research activities for the purpose of initiating a new investigation or completing the existing ones,
- to monitor realization, suggest improvement measures, to monitor, study and analyze the situation, movement and forms of crime in their competence, as well as the application of forensic methods, crime and information analysis and special operation activities,
- to direct the activities performed by other organizational units related to preventing and countering terrorism and extremism,
- to undertake measures related to improving organization, performing activities as well as activities related to improving the efficiency in countering terrorism and extremism,
- to prepare bylaws that regulate activities and operations in the field of countering terrorism and extremism, prepare programmes for professional training and development,
- to prepare analytical and information materials from their field of work,
- to realize the necessary cooperation with other national bodies,
- to perform activities in accordance with relevant information from intelligence and security service when these are in competence of the Administration,
- to perform other activities in the competence of the Administration.
You can praise a police officer for their decent and responsible behaviour towards you, and/or because they are dedicated to their work, unbiased, brave, communicative, fair, as well as for their professionalism and preserving the reputation of the Ministry.
You can send your praise to a police officer to the following e-mail address: gradjanipitaju@mup.vladars.net .
Your praise should be understandable and contain information related to place, time and description of activities performed by the police officer whose work you would like to praise, as well as other useful information. Additionally, it is preferred that you provide your personal information in the praise, including your address and phone numbers, so your praise can contribute in the procedure of rewarding the police officer. If you know the information related to the police officer, you should provide the following: their name and surname, and/or the number of their police badge, where they work and which activities they perform, registration plates of their official vehicle and other information.
You can complain about police officer�s work if you notice some sort of irregularity or omission in their work and if you find that they violated your rights and freedoms by their illegal and incorrect activities and behaviour.
By drawing attention to inappropriate and illegal actions committed by the police officer and other workers of the Ministry, you are helping the police in solving cases related to abuse of office and misbehavior, as well as in timely undertaking corresponding legal measures.
You can send a complaint against a police officer by e-mail to the address of the Unit for professional standards of the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior: jps@mup.vladars.net
Your complaint should be understandable and contain information related to place, time and description of actions of the police officer whose work you are complaining about, as well as other useful information. Additionally, it is preferred that you provide your personal information in the complaint, including your address and phone numbers, so it can be valid in a corresponding procedure. If you know the information related to the police officer, you should provide the following: their name and surname, and/or the number of their police badge, where they work and which activities they perform, registration plates of their official vehicle and other information.
Mr. Borislav Šariæ, MA, was born on 22 August in 1979 in Mrkonji� Grad, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1998, he finished the High-school of the Interior in Sremska Kamenica, Serbia, and became a police officer after graduating from the Police Academy in Belgrade in 2003. In 2011, at the Faculty of Security in Belgrade, he received a Master�s degree in defense, security and protection. He started working at the Ministry of the Interior in 1998, as a police officer at Mrkonji� Grad Police Station, Mrkonji� Grad Public Security Center, and since then, he has performed the following activities and tasks: expert associate on police subjects at the College of the Interior, Banja Luka; inspector for traffic safety at the Department for traffic security, Uniformed Police Administration; Commander of the Police Station for traffic security in Banja Luka, Banja Luka PSC; head of the Unit for strategic planning and analytics, Police Director; head of police Unit for performing tasks of protecting persons and facilities, Uniformed Police Administration. He has been working at the College of the Interior, Banja Luka, as a lecturer on subjects Police management and Police operation.
He is married and has got three children.
He started performing tasks of the Head of the Administration for protecting persons and facilities on 15 April 2015.
+387 51 330-874
+387 51 491-532
uoblo@mup.vladars.net
Bulevar Desanke Maksimoviæ Street 4, 78000 Banja Luka
Duties of the Administration for providing protection to persons and buildings are the following:
Mladen Mariæ was born on 12 June 1979 in the town of Prnjavor. He finished the Secondary School of the Interior in 1998 in Banja Luka, then the Police Academy in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2002, and in 2014 he completed his master studies at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade. He was employed with the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior in 1998 as an intern at Prnjavor Public Security Station. So far, he performed tasks at the following positions at the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior: traffic security inspector, police inspector, inspector, deputy commander, and then the commander of the Traffic Security Police Station Banja Luka. In 2010, he became the head of the Department for Traffic Security, and the end of 2011, he became the head of the Unit for traffic security. In 2012, he became the head of Banja Luka Public Security Centre, and in February 2015, he performed the tasks of the deputy to the head of the Police Administration. In March 2018, he became the head of the Training Centre. Mr Mariæ was appointed head of the Administration for Organised and Serious Crime in December 2020.
051/330-820
051/491-572
uotk@mup.vladars.net
Centar za obuku "Zalužani", Kuljanska bb, 78000 Banja Luka
Mr Željko Spasojeviæ was born on 10 May 1969, in the town of Prnjavor. He finished primary school in Kokori, near Prnjavor, and Secondary School of Internal Affairs in 1988, in Sarajevo. In 1992, Mr Spasojeviæ finished the Military Academy for Land Forces, in Belgrade, and started working for the Republic of Srpska Ministry of the Interior. So far, he has performed the following activities and tasks: platoon commander, head of a class at Secondary School of the Interior in Banja Luka, commander of Police Station Banja Luka 1, inspector at the Police sector, inspector at the Uniformed Police Administration, head of General police department at the Uniformed police administration, head of Police sector at PSC Banja Luka, head of PSC Banja Luka, head of Department for specialist training at the Police Academy, head of Department for professional training at the Administration for Police Education, Court police inspector, expert advisor at the Cabinet of the Minister of the Interior, and head of PSC Banja Luka. On 25 January 2019, he was appointed head of the Administration for Police Support.
051/331-114
051/331-119
upp@mup.vladars.net
Bulevar Desanke Maksimoviæ Street 4, 78000 Banja Luka
The Administration for Police Support conducts the following activities:
� improving lawful procedures and activities of organisational segments of the Ministry through providing support to all lines of work;
� direct engagement in most complex operational activities, investigations and other activities from their scope of activities;
� performing certain operational and instructive activities,
� by the order of the Director, visiting organisational units and sectors with the aim of informing the management about Director�s orders and decisions, as well as controlling and monitoring the activities implementing Director�s decisions;
� performing preventive and educational activities;
� monitoring the application of regulations in the field of police affairs;
� coordinating organisational units of the police with the aim of consolidating and providing guidelines, suggestions and opinions about drafts and proposals of laws and bylaws that are significant for the functioning of the police;
� providing professional legal assistance when directly performing police activities and applying authorisations;
� directing and organizing cooperation between the police and state bodies, local self-government bodies, NGOs, associations of citizens and other entities with the aim of raising the level of the safety of citizens and their property;
� participating in and realising the harmonization process when applying projects and activities for the purpose of enhancing the efficiency and the results of the police work;
� performing activities related to monitoring and control;
� instructively directing and monitoring the legality of activities and tasks in the field of forensic techniques and anti-diversion protection and pyrotechnics;
� studying, finding, improving, and applying scientific and technical methods and means;
� participating in drafting and realisation of equipping programmes;
� monitoring the equipment and technical means and providing that forensic and EOD services are timely equipped;
� preparing instructions, guidelines and other directing documents that regulate the work and activities, collecting and processing information about all forms of crime, especially cyber-crime and organised crime, illegal production and trade of narcotic drugs; planning and proactively and reactively collecting, assessing and analysing intelligence;
� directing, monitoring and coordinating operational activities related to collecting data, analysing collected data and directing their use for operational purposes;
� providing recommendations for undertaking further measures and actions;
� cooperating with other organisational units;
� keeping regulated records and implementing the measures of data protection;
� collecting criminal intelligence for persons for who there is information that they are perpetrators of criminal offences or are related to the commission of criminal offences, as well as persons who are under criminal investigation in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code of both the Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and by the orders issued by courts or prosecutor�s offices;
� cooperating with other bodies of state administration and police agencies from other countries while performing activities related to criminal intelligence;
� participating in the selection of and education of police officers related to criminal intelligence activities, as well as undercover investigations;
� participating in the infiltration of investigators and providing them with logistic support;
� introducing the undercover investigator and informer to the case in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code;
� providing professional support to public security centres, and monitoring activities in that field;
� participating in drafting normative documents, reports and other professional materials;
� performing other activities in its scope of activities.