The capital city of Podgorica did not file a complaint with the Administrative Court against the decision of the Appeals Commission of the Government of Montenegro, which accepted the appeal of the former commander of the Protection and Rescue Service Goran Janković about his dismissal.
The appeals commission issued a decision on December 14, and from the day of receipt of that decision, a deadline of 20 days was left for initiating an administrative dispute.
"Based on the data you provided, and after an inspection of the Registers of this Court, as of January 12, 1, it was determined that against the decision of the Appeals Commission - Podgorica, no lawsuit was filed by the Capital City of Podgorica, for initiating an administrative dispute", they told "Vijesti" yesterday from the Administrative Court.
Yesterday, the Capital City did not answer the question about the administrative dispute. The day before, they said that the case in the second-instance procedure was returned for retrial and decision, that there is no legal basis for Goran Janković to be the commander of the Protection and Rescue Service, "due to the very fact that the procedure is ongoing".
Janković joined the Protection Service from the Municipal Police in 2019, and was in office until 2025. However, his mandate ended in October, when he was mayor Olivera Injac issued a decision on his dismissal. At the end of the same month, he was appointed acting commander of the Capital City Protection Service Zdravko Blečić.
"Vijesti" announced at the end of last year that the Appeals Commission of the Government of Montenegro annulled the Injac decision, among other things, stating that "the first-instance body did not submit any material evidence to support the reasons given in the explanation of the decision to dismiss the appellant".
The Capital City told "Vijesta" two days ago that Janković has not been returned to his job in the meantime and that the Protection Service is still being led by Acting. commanded by Zdravko Blečić.
Yesterday, they did not answer the editorial question about whether, based on the decision of the Appeals Commission, they filed a complaint with the Administrative Court. Janković's attorney, a lawyer, told "Vijesti" that they did not do that, except from the Administrative Court. Maja Zeković.
She told the newsroom that "despite the fact that the first-instance decision by which the commander of the Protection Service was illegally dismissed was annulled, he was not allowed to continue performing his duties even after the end of the second-instance proceedings."
"Nor did the first-instance authority act in accordance with the order from the second-instance decision," she said.
Commenting on the allegations of the Capital City, that "the case in the second-instance procedure was sent back for retrial and decision-making, that there is no legal basis for Goran Janković to be the commander of the Protection and Rescue Service, due to the very fact that the procedure is ongoing", she said that the appointment decision Blečić should not have been executed until the end of the appeal procedure.
"Furthermore, the capital city received the second-level decision more than 20 days ago and they have not taken any action, even though the legal deadline is 20 days," she told "Vijesta" yesterday.
According to her, "anomalies in the capital (continued) even after the change of government".
"Since in several recognized cases, I was able to prove mobbing in the Protection Service with legally binding decisions, so in that direction it is advisable to state that the current mayor, unfortunately, by promoting force, on several occasions verbally 'ordered' the removal of the commander, overlooking again, and radically trampling on the imperative provision of Article 22 of the Law on Administrative Procedure, which explicitly defines 'When it is prescribed that the appeal does not delay the execution of the decision, this MUST be stated in the operative part of the decision'. This behavior of the head of the local self-government, unfortunately, apart from the fact that it is evidently dilettantish and frivolous, is also inadmissible from the point of view of the elementary expectations of all employees, who in this absence of legal culture, it happens that the mayor of the capital city verbally orders 'disbursements', and what really in it completely collapses the legal order of a country as well as citizens' trust in the legal system," Zeković said.
As she added, the second-instance commission adopted all the allegations of the appeal, thus the decision on dismissal was formally annulled, and the capital "continues to turn a deaf ear to the consistent application of the law".
"It becomes clear that we are still hostages of the system of arbitrariness of individuals who, by abusing their official position, and above all by abusing the trust of citizens, trample on all the basic principles of behavior in a civilized society. It is not superfluous to point out that the personnel solution of the mayor, for the commander of the Protection Service, is a person who was just one of the tools of many years of mobbing in the Protection Service, and at the same time it is an employee who does not have the qualifications for the position of commander, which the administrative inspection has already stated and ordered the Capital City to eliminate the irregularities. "Unfortunately, it turned out that that order for the capital, as well as the second-level decision of the Appeals Commission, was a futile attempt at legal action in an illegal system," she said.
A criminal complaint was recently filed against Blečić and several unknown persons on grounds of suspicion of abuse of official position and forgery. He submitted a report to the intermediary for protection against mobbing at the employer Miodrag Đukanović. In 2020, after four years of trial, Đukanović won the case in which it was proven that he was in the Protection Service, "in the period from March 16, 3 to November 2016, 26, by Commander A.Č. done mobbing".
At that time, the commander of the Service was Andrija Čađenović, who later led Podgorica's "Čistoća". In the judgment published on December 18, 2020 in the daily newspapers "Vijesti" and "Dan", among other things, it is stated that the commander at the time, Čađenović, by verbal order as superior to Đukanović, even though he was formally and legally equal to the prosecutor, appointed Blečić. It also says that, according to Blečić's proposal, Đukanović was moved from the position of group leader-rescuer to a lower position in the rank, to the position of firefighter-rescuer "due to omissions that he cannot remember exactly"...
In connection with the appointment of Blečić, in mid-November an initiative was submitted to the Department of Administrative Inspection of the Ministry of Public Administration (MJU), in which, among other things, it is stated that Blečić does not meet the requirements for that position.
On December 25, the administrative inspection submitted to the capital a report on the performed supervision. Two days ago, the Capital City told "Vijesti" that they had submitted comments on that record.
To the same question, the Protection Service also submitted an answer to the newsroom yesterday: "We will answer the question regarding the administrative inspection procedure and its legal nature as soon as the lawyer of the Protection and Rescue Service comes back from sick leave."
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