The Appeals Commission of the Government of Montenegro has once again annulled the decision of the Mayor of Podgorica Oliver Injac about the shift Goran Janković from the position of commander of the Podgorica Protection and Rescue Service, "Vijesti" learns.
In that government body, they believe that in the explanation of the disputed decision on the dismissal of Janković from February, "no reasons were given to confirm the correctness of the resolution of this administrative matter".
"...Actually, the stated reasons for the disputed decision are unclear", is the position of the Governmental Appeals Commission, which sent the case back to Injac for re-procedure and decision-making.
Janković joined the Protection Service from the Communal Police in 2019, and was in office until 2025. However, his mandate ended in October, when the mayor of Injac passed 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.
"In fact, it is indisputable that the mayor has the legal authority to initiate the dismissal procedure, in this particular case, of the head of the service, but the disputed fact remains whether the procedure was followed, which is rightly indicated by the appeal...", the decision of the Government Commission states. for appeals, which "Vijesti" had access to.
"Vijesti" announced at the end of last year that the Appeals Commission 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 (Janković)".
Zdravko Blečić was appointed acting commander of the Podgorica Protection Service by the decision of the mayor of October 26, 10.
In connection with the appointment of Blečić in mid-November last year, an initiative was submitted to the Department of Administrative Inspection of the Department of Public Administration, in which, among other things, it is stated that Blečić does not meet the requirements for that position. At the end of last year, during the extraordinary supervision, the Inspector of the Ministry of Justice, among other things, established that Blečić, after obtaining the academic title - Specialist in State and Legal Studies, does not have five years of work experience in the VII-1 level of qualifications in protection and rescue work, that after he also performed the duties of the position of firefighter-rescuer, in the title of independent officer in the Protection Service, as well as the position of firefighter-rescuer, for which the condition IV-1, i.e. III level of education qualifications is prescribed. The inspector also determined that the certificate of Blečić's seniority, which was submitted by the Capital City, cannot be accepted as evidence in that legal matter, that "senior work experience of a certain duration does not mean experience of the same duration". The inspector determined that the certificate of the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral - Church Municipality of Podgorica from May 18, 2021 cannot be accepted as proof of the necessary work experience, "bearing in mind that the experience in the MPC was gained in administrative and legal work, not work protection and rescue".
In June, the administrative inspection of the Ministry of Public Administration (MJU) again ordered Injac to eliminate irregularities related to the appointment of Blečić as acting commander of the Podgorica Protection and Rescue Service.
In addition to several decisions of the MJU inspection, the inspection of the Ministry of Internal Affairs found that Blečić does not meet the requirements for the commander of the Protection and Rescue Service.
That inspection banned Blečić from working in April, but Interior Minister Danilo Saranović overturned the decision in May.
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