The drone, which the Customs Administration donated to the Municipal Police of Podgorica in 2018, is still in the Protection and Rescue Service, fire commander Goran Janković told "Vijesta".
He said that the aircraft was registered in the documents of the warehouse, and that the Communal Police lent it to the firefighters.
"It is the property of the Capital City, as we give vehicles to other services, so the drone was given to us. We used it this summer," Janković said.
He stated that "the drone is paperwork in the Municipal Police", adding that the journalist can come to make sure that they have the aircraft.
However, the Communal Police informed "Vijesti" that they still have the same answer to the questions regarding the drone as they gave us in June 2020: that service of the Capital City does not have any information regarding the aircraft.
"For the reason that this special service of the Capital City is not in possession of an unmanned aerial vehicle - a drone, model Q500 Typhon from 2018, nor does it have documentation related to the possible transfer of the same by the Customs Administration of Montenegro", it is stated in the answers of the Municipal Service, which is managed by Miloš Novović.
After "Vijesti" contacted him, Janković called the journalist again to clarify "so there would be no confusion". He also said that "the drone is in the Protection Service and that its status is at the same level as when you wrote the first story and that there have been no changes."
He also stated this in the text message he sent to the journalist.
When asked by a journalist to clarify where the documentation from the drone is, he said that "you have to see it with the Communal Police".
As "Vijesti" wrote in June, the drone that was donated to the Municipal Police of the Capital City ended up in the Protection and Rescue Service, because Janković took it with him when he transferred from the municipal police to the fire service.
He was the chief of the Municipal Police until the beginning of 2019, after which he was appointed commander of the Protection and Rescue Service.
Janković then confirmed to "Vijesta" that the drone is now among the rescuers, and said that there is nothing secret about it.
"The drone is in the warehouse, that can be checked. When I transferred from the Municipal Police to the Protection Service - I brought it. There was no one in the Municipal Police to operate it, and we wanted to use it to record green areas. It was donated to the Municipal Police on my initiative, because we wanted to use it to film green areas", he said and pointed out that the firefighters have another more sophisticated drone, bought at a tender, which was announced, as he said, before he came in that service.
The drone was donated by the Customs Administration to the Municipal Police in 2018. However, there is no information about it in the records of the Municipal Police.
The Customs Administration informed "Vijesta" that by the director's decision of February 5, 2018, in accordance with the Regulation on the conditions and manner of sale of customs goods and other procedures with customs goods, they provided the Municipal Police with an unmanned aerial vehicle - drone, model Q500 TYPHON, free of charge.
The Communal Police replied that they were not "in possession of the drone in question, which was possibly donated by the Customs Administration of Montenegro"...
According to "Vijesti" information, there is no written evidence in the Municipal Police on the basis of which the donated drone ended up with the firefighters.
In addition, in that service of the Capital City, as confirmed in the answers to the "News" in June, there is no documentation at all about the drone.
In the summer of 2018, the capital city announced that the Protection Service will have great help in preventing and extinguishing fires that year from the air, as a special aircraft - a drone, a highly sophisticated unmanned aircraft with high-resolution thermal imaging cameras - will be in operation. with a high degree of zoom.
At that time, they announced that members of the Podgorica Protection Service, after training, will also use drones in their work.
They explained that the company "M-code" from Podgorica rented a drone and organized training in 2018 for members of the Protection Service.
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