Whether there will be a change at the top of the Police Directorate tonight will be known if the current director Zoran Brđanin accepts the executive power's offer in principle to move to another position, and then resigns himself, "Vijesti" has learned from several sources.
If Brđanin accepts the offer to take over the position of adviser to the acting director of the National Security Agency - a position that was mentioned as a possible option as recently as this summer, it will also mean the end of his turbulent, several times interrupted mandate, which began in February 2021.
The most serious candidate to replace Brđanin in the acting mandate is the current acting assistant of the Anti-Crime Sector, Lazar Šćepanović, who was previously a proposal of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Danilo Saranović, but due to disagreements in the executive branch, that attempt failed in the wee hours, on March 13 of this year. year.
Exactly nine months later, as "Vijesti" found out, an agreement was reached between PES/Democrats to reshuffle the secret and public service, and that this time there would be no conflict over who would staff the ANB and who would. in the Police Directorate.
If this option for changes in the UP does not pass tonight, that is, if the current director does not resign himself, as things stand now, the Brđanin will hardly see the New Year as police chief.
The basis for a new dismissal in that case would be a negative Report on the situation in the fight against crime, which is submitted at the end of 2024, but such an option would probably also mean the dismissal of Šćepanović, because the report actually contains the results of the work of his Sector.
The wave of changes in the security sector began last night when the director of the National Security Agency, Boris Milić, submitted his resignation after a conversation with Prime Minister Milojko Spajić.
After that, the government expressly declared the end of Milić's mandate and appointed entrepreneur Ivica Janović to the acting position.
With the appointment of Šćepanović, the Police Administration would once again be brought into an acting state, and the reforms will most certainly mean a big cut of all current acting assistants, heads of regional security centers, OB...
"Vijesti" has learned that the names of several elders are already being mentioned in police circles, who could take key positions within the police apparatus in the new personnel rotation.
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