The Republic of Srpska

Ministry of the Interior

CRIME POLICE ADMINISTRATION

Head of administration

Snežana Radivojević 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 Radivojević 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 Radivojević was appointed head of Crime Police Administration on 22 March 2023.
CONTACT

+387 51 334-374
+387 51 334-381
ukp@mup.vladars.rs
Bulevar Desanke Maksimović 4, 78000 Banja Luka

Duties
  • to handle the processing of the most complex criminal offences,
  • to perform control, supervision, and instructive guidance of the work of all organisational and support units of the crime police in handling the criminal offences in the areas of general crime, economic crime, corruption, and cybercrime, supported by criminal intelligence analysis, forensic methods and tools, special operational tasks, and searches,
  • to carry out tasks in countering general crime committed by criminal groups,
  • to perform tasks in the field of operational analysis,
  • to supervise the legality of the work of organisational units, to set deadlines, to determine obligations for police administrations regarding control of imposed measures, to monitor implementation, and to propose sanctions and improvement measures,
  • to monitor the trends and manifestations of juvenile delinquency and domestic violence crimes,
  • to monitor, study, and analyse the state, trends, and forms of crime and the application of forensic-technical methods, criminal intelligence analysis, and special operational tasks,
  • to direct the work of other organisational units on crime-related tasks, to undertake measures for improving organisation, and to perform tasks aimed at enhancing efficiency in combating crime,
  • to prepare subordinate regulations governing work and procedures in combating crime,
  • to prepare professional training and development programmes,
  • to prepare analytical and informational materials within the scope of work,
  • to establish necessary cooperation with other republican administrative bodies and authorities at the level of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
  • to issue and announce warrants and public notices, to conduct targeted searches, and to issue registers and bulletins of warrants,
  • to directly plan, organise, and lead search activities for wanted persons and perpetrators of the most serious crimes on the level of the Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as internationally; to cooperate with the organisational units of the Ministry and other authorities and organisations in fulfilling tasks within its competence; to establish international cooperation for the detention of wanted persons, finding missing persons, lost and stolen items and artworks, and to respond to requests from other countries,
  • to act on relevant intelligence-security service information relating to the scope of work of the Administration,
  • to collect and process information on all forms of cybercrime, to plan and conduct proactive and reactive collection, assessment, and analysis of intelligence data,
  • to plan, organise, and conduct preventive activities aimed at preventing all types of cybercrime, to participate in the preparation of strategic, operational, and preventive documents and materials, and to develop and improve operational methods and tools,
  • to perform tasks of collecting, systematising, and processing documentation necessary for conducting financial investigations aimed at identifying and uncovering assets acquired by criminal offences, determining how the assets were acquired and transferred by suspects to related third parties and legitimate incomes, and proving the obvious disproportion between assets and lawful incomes, all in accordance with the provisions of the Law on the Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime,
  • to establish international cooperation in the areas of general crime, financial investigations and money laundering prevention, cybercrime, other forms of economic crime and corruption, as well as in the field of search activities and targeted searches.

Duties of the Department for Countering Economic Crime and Corruption and the Department for Financial Investigations and Money Laundering
  • The Department for Countering Economic Crime and Corruption undertakes measures and actions aimed at handling the most serious forms of criminal offences in the field of economic crime and corruption. It assesses the most complex manifestations of economic crime offences, supervises and controls the legality of the work of organisational units in the countering economic crime and corruption, orders measures to eliminate deficiencies, monitors the implementation of ordered measures, and proposes additional measures to protect legality and improve operations.
  • The Department for Financial Investigations and Money Laundering performs tasks related to collecting, systematising, and processing documentation necessary for conducting financial investigations aimed at identifying and uncovering assets acquired through criminal offences. It determines the manner of asset acquisition and their transfer by suspects to related third parties and legitimate income, proves the obvious disproportion between assets and lawful income, all in accordance with the provisions of the Law on the Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime. The Department coordinates cooperation with other state administration bodies, investigates money and assets obtained through criminal activities and used in economic operations or otherwise concealed or attempted to be concealed within the territory of the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, or other countries. It performs tasks related to the prevention, detection, and investigation of money laundering offences. Furthermore, it undertakes measures and actions to discover money and assets obtained by criminal activities and used in economic operations in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code, Criminal Code, and the Law on Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorist Activities.
  • Since 2013, the Department for Financial Investigations and Money Laundering has served as the CARIN network contact point for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Srpska, actively cooperating with other network members. The Camden Assets Recovery Interagency Network (CARIN) is an informal network of experts with practical experience in locating, freezing, and confiscating illegally acquired assets. CARIN started its operations in 2004 with support from EUROPOL. The CARIN Secretariat is located at EUROPOL’s headquarters in The Hague, and Secretariat members are also EUROPOL members. The official email contact address used by the Department is ukp_ofi@mup.vladars.rs.
  • The Department for Financial Investigations and Money Laundering has also been designated as the central Asset Recovery Office (ARO) in the Republic of Srpska.

    • To align with EU standards, the Republic of Srpska has taken the necessary steps to establish the Asset Recovery Office (ARO). In accordance with the Council Decision 2007/845/JHA, on 14 September 2020, a Decision was adopted to designate the Asset Recovery Office within the RS MoI Crime Police Administration, within the Department for Financial Investigations and Money Laundering in the Republic of Srpska. This Decision obliges all state bodies to enable the Asset Recovery Office direct access to and retrieval of data from their electronic databases necessary for the operation of the ARO, in accordance with the Council of Europe Decision 2007/845/JHA. It is important to emphasise that the representative of the Department for Financial Investigations and Money Laundering simultaneously serves as the CARIN contact point for the Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    Since 2022, the Department for Financial Investigations and Money Laundering has also served as the contact point within the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Srpska in the global United Nations network known as GlobE Network. The Global Operational Network of Law Enforcement Agencies for Combating Corruption (GlobE Network) provides a platform for information exchange between law enforcement agencies worldwide.



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