The Government adopted the Information on the initiation of the procedure - a public call for the employment of 815 police officers at an electronic session.
As stated in the Information, Article 133a, paragraph 1 of the Law on Internal Affairs stipulates that, in order to fill police officer positions, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) may, with the prior opinion of the Ministry of Finance and the consent of the Government, conduct a special recruitment procedure without public advertising and without a personnel plan.
"Due to the volume of work that cannot be carried out with the existing number of executors, the need to hire specialized personnel or other justified reasons determined by the Ministry. Paragraph 2 of the same article stipulates that the procedure referred to in paragraph 1 of this article shall be carried out on the basis of a public invitation published on the website and bulletin board of the Ministry," the Information states.
Acting Director of the Police Administration Lazar Šćepanović, after receiving notifications from the heads of organizational units of the Police Administration, submitted to the Minister of Internal Affairs an explained proposal for initiating a special employment procedure for 815 officers.
The day after the transaction was made, approval was obtained from the Ministry of Finance.
"Regarding the aforementioned legal norms, and in order to ensure the smooth functioning of the security sector, there is an urgent need to fill the personnel capacities in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, namely the Police Directorate. Bearing in mind that a special recruitment procedure is applied to fill positions within key organizational units within the Police Directorate, and all for the purpose of preserving public safety, it is necessary to implement the aforementioned procedure, without public advertising and without a personnel plan," the document states.
Recently, the head of the UP announced that the police are currently short of around 2.000 police officers.
The fiscal impact on the state budget on a monthly basis for 815 jobs is estimated at a total net amount of 652.000 euros, or a total gross amount of 844.780.
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