At today's session, the Government adopted a new Rulebook on the internal organization and systematization of the positions of the Ministry of the Interior and the Police Directorate, where one of the key innovations will be that the Special Police Department (SPO) will receive the status of a special department separated from the Crime Fighting Sector, they learned. News".
This will give the Special Police Department a greater level of autonomy since it is the strongest operational service in the security sector, which works in the most complex cases under the jurisdiction of the Special State Prosecutor's Office (STP).
The European Commission, as well as the Global Initiative to Combat Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) in a recent report, recommended that a closer connection or full integration of the SPO with the Special State Prosecutor's Office (STP) should be considered, in order to enable easier and more efficient investigations. and prosecution of cases of organized crime and corruption.
In the future, the SPO will have a greater, special status in the police system, and will report to the Director of the Police Directorate and Chief Special Prosecutor Vladimir Novović.
The department will keep its name in order not to have to change the Law on the Special State Prosecutor's Office, which regulates the work and actions of the Department, which will be headed by Chief Predrag Šuković from April 2022.
The new Act on the internal systematization of the MUP and UP was awaited for months because there was disagreement within the system about whether the SPO should be separated from the Department for the fight against crime, which prevented the document from reaching the Government.
In addition to the new status of the SPO, the adopted Rulebook of the Ministry of the Interior and the UP also brought about a change in the Special Purpose Police Sector, which is headed by Miloš Rakonjac.
That Sector will no longer exist as before, but the former situation is returning - the Sector for the security of persons and facilities, while the special units will be special again and will be under the director of UP according to the line of work.
In the future, the Anti-Terrorist Unit (PTJ) will be called the Special Police Unit, while the Special Police Unit (PJP) will retain its name.
The new Ordinance has further minor changes, and the document was prepared by a working group of the MUP.
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